Michael Khazhinsky's

June 98 - Present. Senior Staff Scientist. Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola Inc. Austin, TX.. Device and process simulation.
May 97 - June 98. Device Simulation Engineer. Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola Inc. Austin, TX.. Device and process simulation.
May 95 - Aug 95, May 96 - Aug 96. Engineer Coop. Semiconductor Product Sector, Motorola Inc. Phoenix, AZ. Large signal simulation of RF power transistors. Temperature dependence of capture cross sections of deep level traps. Hot carrier effects in GaAs MESFETs. Computer simulation.
Aug 93 - Apr 97. Research assistant. Research Fellow.Department of Physics, WMU. Kalamazoo, MI. Photonic band structures. Computer simulation.
Aug 93 - Apr 95. Teaching assistant. Department of Physics, WMU. Kalamazoo, MI. Physics laboratory instructor.
Nov 90 - Jul 93. Research Assistant. Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University) - Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Superlattices. Phase transitions. Computer simulation.
Oct 88 - Oct 90. Research assistant. Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University) . Moscow, Russia. Scanning tunneling microscopy.

Aug 93 - Apr 97. Western Michigan University (WMU), Kalamazoo, MI. Ph.D. Physics. GPA - 4.0 (4.0 scale)
Aug 87 - Mar 93. Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology (Technical University) . Department of Theoretical Physics. Electrical Engineer- Physicist Honors Degree (M.S.). GPA - 5.0 (5.0 scale)

Khazhinsky, M.G., & McGurn, A.R. (1998). Green's function method for waveguide and single impurity modes in 2D photonic crystals: H-polarization. Physics Letters A, Vol. 237.
Shum, D.P., Higman, J.M., Khazhinsky M.G., Wu, K., Kao, S., Burnett, D.J., Swift, C.T. & Baker, K. (1997). Corner field effect studies of the shallow trench isolation technology for high density flash EEPROM applications. IEDM 1997.
Khazhinsky, M.G. (1997). Study of impurity modes in photonic crystals and study of power GaAs MESFETs. Ph.D. Dissertation (WMU) [abstract,full version, presentation].
Khazhinsky, M.G., & McGurn A.R. (1997). Impurity modes in 2D photonic crystals: H-polarization. March 1997

American Physical Society Meeting.

Blakey, P.A., Khazhinsky M.G., & Loechelt, G.H. (1996). Direct numerical simulation of the large-signal RF behavior of power transistors. Proceedings of the 4^th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Devices for Microwave and Optoelectronic Applications.
McGurn, A.R., & Khazhinsky, M. (1995). Impurity modes from frequency dependent dielectric impurities in photonic band structures. NATO Advances Studies Institute Series, Vol. 315.
Algul, H.G., Khazhinsky, M., McGurn, A.R., & Kapenga, J. (1995). Impurity modes from impurity clusters in photonic band structures. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 7.
Khazhinsky, M.G. (1993). The study of electron-phase transitions in the 2D-lattice of quantum wells. Hubbard - Heisenberg model in the case of anisotropy. M.S. Thesis (RTU MIEE).
Goncharenko, B.A., Khazhinsky, M.G., Kurbanov, O.B., & Nevolin, V.K. (1990). Lithography by means of scanning tunneling microscope. RTU MIEE Transactions.

May 93 - Aug 93, May 94 - Aug 94. Assistant tour director. Translator-Interpreter (English/Russian). Tour guide. Bolshoi Cruises Inc. Provo, UT. Moscow branch, Russia.
June 92 - July 93 (Part-time). Student coordinator. Tour guide. Translator-Interpreter (English/Russian). Sokhnut (Israeli Agency). Moscow Regional Office, Moscow, Russia.

1998 Silver Quill Award. Motorola SPS.
1997 George E. Bradley Award. WMU.
1996 Outstanding Scholarship Award. WMU.
1995 WMU Research Fellows Program Award. Office of the Vice President for Research.
1995 Jacob P. DeWitt Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. WMU.
1994 Outstanding Scholarship Award. WMU.
1993 Physicist - Electrical Engineer Honors Degree. RTU MIEE.
1991 - 1993 Scholarship of Moscow Mayor's Office.
1989 - 1991 Scholarship of RTU MIEE Academic Board.
1987 - 1991 Winner of XX-XXII Student's conferences. Divisions of Theoretical Physics & Philosophy.
1987 Gold Medal. Russian Ministry of Public Education.