Karen Vardanyan
Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in Physics, 2002-2004, HAS MOVED TO *THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN, EDINBURG, TX*
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Karen K. Vardanyan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics |
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Degrees: B.S., Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia; M.S., Armenian State Engineering University, Yerevan, Armenia; Ph.D., Institute of Applied Problems of Physics of NAS of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia |
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Teaches: Thermal Physics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics; Advanced Experiemental Physics Lab; Optics |
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Activities: Electrooptic properties of Ferroelectric and Nematic Liquid Crystals, and Holographically formed Polymer Liquid Crystals (HPDLC); research on electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematics. |
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Recent Publications: "Influence of Molecular Structure Features on spontaneous polarization size induced by chiral addings in smectic matrixes", K. K. Vardanyan, Ferroelectrics (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers), 2001, V.249, N03-4, P.219-226. "Polymer scaffolding model for holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals", K. K. Vardanyan, J. Eakin, J. Qi, M. DeSarkar, and G. P. Crawford, Appl. Phys. Letters, Vol. 81, No.25, p. 4736. |
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