i kravchenko

Ivan I. Kravchenko received the M.S. degree in materials sciences from Kyiv State University, Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in solid-state physics from the Institute of Metal Physics, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, in 1993. He received Post-Doctoral Training with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. He is currently a Research and Development Staff Member with Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA. His general research interests include nanotechnology, particularly development and manufacture of metamaterials and novel optics elements. Other areas of exploration lay in development and manufacture of electronic components based on wide-band semiconductors, layered as well as 1-D materials.