Center For Physical Sciences And Technology (FTMC)

Featured Scientists

• Prof. habil. Dr. Gintaras Valušis (male, the main contact point for FTMC and the coordinator of the project), Director of FTMC, Head of Terahertz Optoelectronics Laboratory.Gintaras Valušis graduated from the Faculty of Physics Vilnius University in 1985 was awarded a PhD in 1992. He was a postdoc at the Institute of Applied Photo Physics, Dresden University of Technology, in 2000 he held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Institute of Physics at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. Prof. Valušis also holds a Professorship in Semiconductors Physics at the Department of Semiconductor Physics, the Faculty of Physics Vilnius University. He was the coordinator of the major research infrastructure project (for a total budget of 69 million EUR) supported by the EU Structural Funds which setup the National Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius. His research interests include terahertz physics and spectroscopy and optoelectronics.

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• Prof. Habil. Dr. Arūnas Krotkus (male), Head of Department of Optoelectronics, Ultrafast Optoelectronics Laboratory.Arūnas Krotkus graduated from the Faculty of Physics Vilnius University (1970), was awarded a PhD in 1974. Since 1971 he has been working at the Semiconductor Physics Institute and held a professorship at Vilnius University. Prof. Krotkus was a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Australian National University, Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany), the University of Savoy (France). His current research interests are in ultrafast processes in semiconductors, the fabrication of THz components, namely, GaBiAs epitaxial layers for THz optoelectronic applications. Prof. Krotkus has set up the spin-off company Teravil which is supplying components to the laser industry.

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• Dr. Jan Devenson (male), Senior Researcher at Optoelectronic Technology Laboratory in the Optoelectronics Department of CPST.He obtained his PhD in Physics in 2010 from Vilnius University and the Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology. The thesis has been nominated as the Best PhD Thesis for Physical and Biomedical Sciences defended in Lithuania in 2010. His main activity is the epitaxy of III-V semiconductor compounds and development of MID-infrared optoelectronic devices. He also attracted the interest of international industrial companies, providing them with the MBE growth of mid-infrared QCL laser structures.

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• Dr. Renata Butkutė (female), Senior Researcher at Optoelectronic Technology Laboratory in the Optoelectronics Department of CPST.She graduated from the Faculty of Physics Vilnius State Pedagogical Institute (1988). In 1998 RB has received a PhD (joint doctoral studies of Semiconductor Physics Institute of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and Kaunas University of Technology). During the short and long term scientific missions to INPG CNRS (Grenoble, France), University of Lisbon (Portugal) she has gained experience in the field of modern layer growth technologies. Her post-doctoral studies were related to the growth and investigation of dilute semiconductors (2001-2004, Physics Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; fellowship from Marie Skłodowska Curie Action ITN). Since 2009, she is lecturing at the Vilnius University on Materials Science and Nanotechnology. The research interests include molecular beam epitaxy technologies based on A3B5 semiconductor layers and quantum structures for optoelectronic devices.

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• Dr. Irmantas Kašalynas (male) is over 10 years in the field of THz science and technology.Now he works for VMTI FTMC as a principal researcher. His topics of interest cover the research and development of compact room temperature THz detectors, emitters, diffractive optic components, and spectroscopic THz imaging systems used for security and medical applications. In a period of 2013-2017 he was a member of EU COST BM1205 and COST MP1204 programs. In 2012 and 2016 he was on a professional internship at the Institute of High Pressure Physics, UNIPRESS, and TopGaN Company, Warsaw, Poland. There he received an experience on GaN-based heterostructures growth and quality assessment as well as devices processing and fabrication. He is co-founder of LuviTERA UAB. Since 2003 he holds a chair of the Terahertz Photonics Laboratory in the Optoelectronics Department, VMTI FTMC.

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