Alexander I. Lebedev

Professor of Physics
Graduated from Moscow State University (1975). Ph.D. in Physics (1980), Dr.Sci. (1995)

Scientific interests:

Ferroelectric phase transitions induced by off-center impurities, effect of impurities and random fields on these phase transitions, IV-VI narrow-gap semiconductors and oxide ferroelectrics, structural studies of solid solutions using synchrotron radiation and X-ray absorption (EXAFS) spectroscopy, computational materials science, first-principles density-functional theory studies of ferroelectrics and ferroelectric superlattices.
Moreover: Data acquisition systems in experimental physics.

Selected publications:

A.I. Lebedev and I.A. Sluchinskaya. Ferroelectric phase transitions in IV-VI semiconductors associated with off-center ions. -- Ferroelectrics 157, 275 (1994); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev and I.A. Sluchinskaya. Low-temperature phase transitions in some quaternary solid solutions of IV-VI semiconductors. -- J. Alloys Compounds 203, 51 (1994).
A.I. Lebedev and I.A. Sluchinskaya. Influence of random fields on the ferroelectric phase transitions in IV-VI semiconductors. -- Ferroelectrics 169, 293 (1995); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, V.N. Demin and I.H. Munro. Influence of Se, Pb and Mn impurities on the ferroelectric phase transition in GeTe studied by EXAFS. -- Phase Transitions 60, 67 (1997); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, V.N. Demin and I.H. Munro. Off-centering of Pb and Sn impurities in GeTe. -- Phys. Rev. B 55, 14770 (1997); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, V.N. Demin and I.H. Munro. EXAFS studies of the local environment of lead and selenium atoms in PbTe1-xSex solid solutions. -- Physica of the Solid State 41, 1275 (1999); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, A.V. Michurin, I.A. Sluchinskaya, V.N. Demin, I.H. Munro. EXAFS and electrical studies of new narrow-gap semiconductors: InTe_1-xSe_x and In_1-xGa_xTe. -- J. Phys. Chem. Solids 61, 2007 (2000); e-print arXiv:1801.00830 (2018).
A. Lebedev, I. Sluchinskaya, I. Munro. EXAFS study of PbS-SnS solid solution. -- J. Synchrotron Rad. 8, 800 (2001); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Direct determination of the shape of potential well for off-center Ge atom in GeTe-SnTe solid solution by EXAFS technique. 7th Russia/CIS/Baltic/Japan Symposium on Ferroelectricity (St. Petersburg, June 2002). Abstract book, p. 29.
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. EXAFS study of the influence of impurities on the phase transition in GeTe. -- Ferroelectrics 298, 189 (2004).
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. A new method for determining parameters of the potential well of off-center atoms from EXAFS data. Crystallography Reports 49, Suppl. 1, S94 (2004).
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, S.G. Nikitenko, S.G. Dorofeev. Determination of Tm charge state in PbTe(Tm) by XANES method. -- Physica Scripta T115, 365 (2005); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Parameters of the potential well of an off-center Ge atom in GeTe-SnTe solid solution. -- Physics of the Solid State 49, 1132 (2007); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Physics of Semiconductor Devices (Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2008); ISBN 978-5-9221-0995-6, 488 pp. (in Russian)
A.I. Lebedev. Ab initio calculations of phonon spectra in ATiO₃ perovskite crystals (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra, Cd, Zn, Mg, Ge, Sn, Pb). -- Physics of the Solid State 51, 362 (2009); e-print arXiv:1305.0240 (2013); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ferroelectric phase transition in orthorhombic CdTiO₃: first-principles studies. -- Physics of the Solid State 51, 802 (2009); e-print arXiv:1507.06658 (2015); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, A. Erko, A.A. Veligzhanin, A.A. Chernyshov. XAFS studies of the local environment of Pb impurity atoms in barium, strontium, and calcium titanates. -- Physics of the Solid State 51, 991 (2009); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya, A. Erko, V.F. Kozlovskii. Direct evidence for off-centering of Mn impurity in SrTiO₃. -- JETP Letters 89, 457 (2009); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ferroelectric phenomena in CdSnO₃: A first-principles study. -- Physics of the Solid State 51, 1875 (2009); e-print arXiv:1601.01472 (2016); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ab initio study of dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic properties of BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ ferroelectric superlattices. -- Physics of the Solid State 51, 2324 (2009); [local copy].
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev, A. Erko. Local environment and oxidation state of Mn impurity in SrTiO₃ determined from XAFS data. -- Bull. Russian Acad. Sci.: Physics 74, 1235 (2010); e-print arXiv:1507.07342 (2015); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ground state and properties of ferroelectric superlattices based on crystals of the perovskite family. Physics of the Solid State 52, 1448 (2010); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ground-state structure of KNbO₃/KTaO₃ superlattices: Array of nearly independent ferroelectrically ordered planes. -- Physica Status Solidi B 249, 789 (2012); e-print arXiv:1102.1001 (2011); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Dielectric, piezoelectric, and elastic properties of BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ ferroelectric superlattices from first principles. -- J. Adv. Dielectrics 2, 1250003 (2012); e-print arXiv:1105.5828 (2011); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Quasi-two-dimensional ferroelectricity in KNbO₃/KTaO₃ superlattices. -- Physics of the Solid State 53, 2463 (2011); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. First-principles study of ferroelectricity and pressure-induced phase transitions in HgTiO₃. -- Phase Transitions 86, 442 (2013); e-print arXiv:1203.2370 (2012).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev, A. Erko. XAFS studies of the local structure and charge state of the Pr impurity in SrTiO₃. -- Physics of the Solid State 54, 975 (2012); [local copy].
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev, A. Erko. Crystal structure, local structure, and defect structure of Pr-doped SrTiO₃. -- J. Appl. Phys. 112, 024103 (2012); e-print arXiv:1203.3066 (2012); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ferroelectricity and pressure-induced phase transitions in HgTiO₃. -- Physics of the Solid State 54, 1663 (2012); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Properties of BaTiO3/BaZrO3 ferroelectric superlattices with competing instabilities. -- Physics of the Solid State 55, 1198 (2013); [local copy]; e-print arXiv:1304.7596 (2013).
A.I. Lebedev. Crystal structure and properties of barium thorate BaThO₃ from first principles. -- J. Alloys and Compounds 580, 487 (2013); e-print arXiv:1302.5614 (2013).
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Structural instability in BaZrO₃ crystals: calculations and experiment. -- Physics of the Solid State 55, 1941 (2013); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Combined first-principles and EXAFS study of structural instability in BaZrO₃. -- J. Adv. Dielectrics 5, 1550019 (2015); e-print arXiv:1304.6359 (2013).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev, A. Erko. Structural position and oxidation state of nickel in SrTiO₃. -- J. Adv. Dielectrics 3, 1350031 (2013); e-print arXiv:1307.5082 (2013); [local copy].
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev, A. Erko. Structural position and charge state of nickel in SrTiO₃. -- Physics of the Solid State 56, 449 (2014); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Band offsets in heterojunctions between cubic perovskite oxides. -- Physics of the Solid State 56, 1039 (2014); e-print arXiv:1401.1157 (2014); [local copy].
A.I. Lebedev. Ferroelectric properties of RbNbO₃ and RbTaO₃. -- Physics of the Solid State 57, 331 (2015); e-print arXiv:1501.00670 (2015); [local copy].
M.A. Terekhin, V.N. Makhov, A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Effect of local environment on crossluminescence kinetics in SrF2:Ba and CaF2:Ba solid solutions. -- Journal of Luminescence 166, 137 (2015); e-print arXiv:1506.02325 (2015).
A.I. Lebedev. Phase transitions and metastable states in stressed SrTiO₃ films. -- Physics of the Solid State 58, 300 (2016).
A.I. Lebedev. Metastability effects in strained and stressed SrTiO3 films. -- J. Adv. Dielectrics 6, 1650016 (2016); e-print arXiv:1509.00902 (2015).
A.I. Lebedev. Nonlinear optical properties of undoped and doped with Zr and Nb KTiOPO4 crystals. -- Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Science: Physics 80, 1038 (2016); e-print arXiv:1610.02654 (2016).
R.B. Vasiliev, A.I. Lebedev, E.P. Lazareva, N.N. Shlenskaya, V.B. Zaytsev, A.G. Vitukhnovsky, Y. Yao, K. Sakoda. High-energy exciton transitions in quasi-two-dimensional cadmium chalcogenide nanoplatelets. -- Phys. Rev. B 95, 165414 (2017); e-print arXiv:1703.08960 (2017).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev. An experimental and theoretical study of Ni impurity centers in Ba_0.8Sr_0.2TiO₃. -- Physics of the Solid State 59, 1512 (2017); e-print arXiv:1708.03016 (2017).
A.I. Lebedev. Lattice dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional CdSe nanoplatelets and their Raman and infrared spectra. -- Phys. Rev. B 96, 184306 (2017); e-print arXiv:1707.05444 (2017).
A.I. Lebedev. Ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity in monolayers and nanoplatelets of SnS. -- J. Appl. Phys. 124, 164302 (2018); e-print arXiv:1805.08437 (2018).
A.I. Lebedev. Negative thermal expansion in CdSe quasi-two-dimensional nanoplatelets. -- Phys. Rev. B 100, 035432 (2019); e-print arXiv:1908.04581 (2019).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev. Cobalt in strontium titanate as a new off-center magnetic impurity. -- Physics of the Solid State 61, 390 (2019); e-print arXiv:2108.00481 (2021).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev. Electronic and magnetic properties of structural defects in SrTiO3(Co). -- J. Alloys and Compounds 820, 153243 (2020); e-print arXiv:1912.10711 (2019).
A.I. Lebedev. Piezoelectric properties of II-IV/I-V and II-IV/III-III ferroelectric perovskite superlattices. -- Ferroelectrics 567, 89 (2020).
A.I. Lebedev. Piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric perovskite superlattices with polar discontinuity. -- Computational Materials Science 188, 110113 (2021); e-print arXiv:2012.08817 (2020).
A.I. Lebedev, B.M. Saidzhonov, K.A. Drozdov, A.A. Khomich, R.B. Vasiliev. Raman and infrared studies of CdSe/CdS core/shell nanoplatelets. -- Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 6758 (2021).
A.I. Lebedev. First-principles calculations of vibrational spectra of CdSe/CdS superlattices. -- Physics of the Solid State 64, 2312 (2022); e-print arXiv:2110.14760 (2021).
I.A. Sluchinskaya, A.I. Lebedev. On the possibility of incorporation of the iron impurity into A sites in SrTiO3. -- Physics of the Solid State 64, 345 (2022); e-print arXiv:2204.12775 (2022).
A.I. Lebedev, I.A. Sluchinskaya. Off-centering of the Fe atom at the A site in SrTiO3: calculations and experiment. -- Ferroelectrics 604, 116 (2023).
A.I. Lebedev. Spontaneous strain in quasi-two-dimensional Janus CdSe nanoplatelets and its microscopic mechanisms. -- Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, 9911 (2023); e-print arXiv:2405.11679 (2024).
A.I. Lebedev. A new approach to analyzing the spinor wave functions: Effect of strain on the electronic structure and optical transitions in bulk CdSe. -- e-print arXiv:2307.15534 (2023).

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ResearcherID: D-2751-2013
ORCID: 0000-0003-3175-0093
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