Ihor Horichok

Dr. Sci. in Physics

Professor of the Department of Solid State Physics and Chemistry
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Position: Professor of the Department of Solid State Physics and Chemistry

Scientific Degree: Doctor of Physical Sciences in the specialty ‘Physics of Solid State’.

Scientific title: Professor, Senior Researcher

Author of over 100 scientific papers.

 

Handbook

  1. Voznyak O.M., Prokopiv V.V., Nykyruy L.I., Horichok I.V. Using the Maple software to solve of quantum mechanics tasks. Handbook. Ivano-Frankivsk, 150 p. (2018).

Papers

  1. Z. Khshanovska, M.O. Halushchak, O.M. Matkivskyi, I.V. Horichok. Analysis of heat conductivity mechanisms in PbSnTe solid solutions, Physics and chemistry of solid state, 24(3), 564 (2023); https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.24.3.564-577.
  2. Saliy, L. Nykyruy, G. Cempura, O. Soroka, T. Parashchuk, I. Horichok, Periodic nanostructures induced by point defects in Pb1-xSnxTe, Physics And Chemistry Of Solid State, 24(1) (2023) pp. 70-76, https://doi.org/10.15330/pcss.24.1.70-76
  3. Olha Khshanovska, Taras Parashchuk, Ihor Horichok. Estimating the upper limit of the thermoelectric figure of merit in n- and p-type PbTe // Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 160, 15 June 2023, 107428 (13р), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2023.107428
  4. Dashevsky Zinovi, Horichok Ihor, Maksymuk Mykola, Muchtar Ahmad Rifqi, Srinivasan Bhuvanesh, Mori Takaoc. Feasibility of high performance in p-type Ge1−xBixTe materials for thermoelectric modules. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 105, 4500 – 4511, 2022, https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85124481682&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  5. Maksymuk, B. Dzundza, O. Matkivsky, I. Horichok, R. Shneck, Z.Dashevsky, Development of the high performance thermoelectric unicouple based on Bi2Te3 compounds. Journal of Power Sources,  530, 2022, https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126514198&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  6. M. Matkivskyi, V.I. Makovyshyn, T.I. Kupchak, G.D. Mateik, І.V. Horichok. Thermoelectric properties of composite materials
    based on lead telluride Physics and chemistry of solid state. V. 23, No. 2,  368 (2022), https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135412551&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  7. T.Parashchuk,. I.Horichok,. Kosonowski, A.Kruk, K.T.Wojciechowski, Insight into the transport properties and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type Pb1−xSbxTe. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 860, 158355, https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85098861700&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  8. Saliy Ya. P., Horichok І.V., Dzumedzey O. Temperature dependencies of electrical properties of thin films based on solid solutions PbSnAgTe. Фізика і хімія твердого тіла. Т.21, No 4, 640 (2020), https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099621919&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  9. Parashchuk T., Shabaldin A., Cherniushok O., Konstantinov P., Horichok I., Origins of the enhanced thermoelectric performance for p-type Ge1-xPbxTe alloys. Physica B: Condensed Matter 596, 412397 (2020), https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85088900464&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f 
  10. Horichok I.V., Parashchuk T.O. Point defects in PbCdTe solid solutions, Journal of Applied Physics, 127 (5), 055704 (2020), https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079214459&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  11. Ya.P. Saliy, O.M. Matkivskyi, І.V. Horichok. Scattering Mechanisms in pressed PbTe./ Physics and chemistry of solid state, 21(1) (2020) p.82-88, https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85084445024&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f
  12. Nykyruy, L., Ruvinskiy, M., Ivakin, E., Kostyuk, O., Horichok, I., Kisialiou, I., Yavorskyy, Y. and Hrubyak, A., 2019. Low-dimensional systems on the base of PbSnAgTe (LATT) compounds for thermoelectric application. Physica E: Low-dimensional systems and nanostructures, 106, pp.10-18.
  13. Horichok, I., Parashchuk, T., Pylyponiuk, M., Soroka, O. and Voloshynovych, M., 2018. Defects subsystem and homogeneity region of ZnTe and CdTe crystals. Journal of Crystal Growth, 486, pp.10-18.
  14. Horichok, I.V., Prokopiv, V.V., Zapukhlyak, R.I., Matkivskyj, O.M., Semko, T.O., Savelikhina, I.O. and Parashchuk, T.O., 2018. Effects of Oxygen Interaction with PbTe Surface and Their Influence on Thermoelectric Material Properties, Journal of Nano- and Electronic Physics, 2018, Volume 10, Issue 5.
  15. Horichok, I., Shevchuk, M., Parashchuk, T. and Galushchak, M.J., 2017. Intrinsic point defects of samarium monosulphide crystals in metal phase. Chemistry & Chemical Technology, 3 (11), 2017, 11(3), pp.319-326.
  16. Horichok, I.V., Nykyruy, L.I., Parashchuk, T.O., Bardashevska, S.D. and Pylyponuk, M.P., 2016. Thermodynamics of defect subsystem in zinc telluride crystals. Modern Physics Letters B, 30(16), p.1650172.
  17. Horichok, I., Ahiska, R., Freik, D., Nykyruy, L., Mudry, S., Matkivskiy, O. and Semko, T., 2016. Phase content and thermoelectric properties of optimized thermoelectric structures based on the Ag-Pb-Sb-Te system. Journal of Electronic Materials, 45(3), pp.1576-1583.
  18. Horichok, I.V., Hurhula, H.Y., Prokopiv, V.V. and Pylyponiuk, M.A., 2016. Semiempirical energies of vacancy formation in semiconductors. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 61(11), pp.992-992.
  19. Gorichok, I.V., Fochuk, P.M., Verzhak, Y.V., Parashchuk, T.O., Freik, D.M., Panchuk, O.E., Bolotnikov, A.E. and James, R.B., 2015. Compensation mechanism of bromine dopants in cadmium telluride single crystals. Journal of Crystal Growth, 415, pp.146-151.
  20. I.V. Horichok. Enthalpies of Schottky defect formation in semiconductors, Physics of Solid State, 54(7), 1373-1376 (2012).

Handbook

  1. Voznyak O.M., Prokopiv V.V., Nykyruy L.I., Horichok I.V. Using the Maple software to solve of quantum mechanics tasks. Handbook. Ivano-Frankivsk, 150 p. (2018).

Date of birth: 26.06.1982

Languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian

Education

Specialist: 1999-2004, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), specialty – radiophysics and electronics;

Postgraduate studies: 2004-2007, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine);

Candidate of Chemical Sciences: 2010, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), specialty – solid state chemistry.

Doctor of Physical Sciences: 2019, Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsy National University (Chernivtsy, Ukraine), specialty – Physics of solid state.

Employment

Senior Laboratory Assistant at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2007-2008);

Head of the laboratories of the Department of Solid State Physics and Chemistry at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2008–2015);

Postdoctoral Training (2014-2017)

Professor of the Department of Solid State Physics and Chemistry (since 2018)

Scientific interests

Scientific interests – technology of production of semiconductor materials, defective structure of semiconductors, electrophysical properties.

Objects of the study – regularities of formation of a defective subsystem of crystals in the process of their production and heat treatment, mechanisms of the influence of point defects on the physico-chemical properties of semiconductors.

The subjects of the study are binary semiconductor materials of compounds II-VI (ZnTe, CdTe) and IV-VI (GeTe, SnTe, PbTe) and solid solutions based on them.

Participation in projects: 

1. “Dominant point defects and mechanisms of formation of solid solutions on the basis of compounds AVIV and AIIV” (state registration number 0107U006768, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2008-2012) – researcher.

2. “Technology of lead-telluride-based thermoelectric materials for medium-temperature cascade modules” (state registration number 0109U007537, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2009-2010) – researcher.

3. Joint Ukrainian-Turkish research project “New semiconductor materials on the base of lead telluride for thermoelectric energy transformers” (state registration number 0111U005501, State Agency for Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine, 2010-2011) ., researcher.

4. «Technology, spectral and thermoelectric properties of layers of low-dimensional heterostructures on the base of lead telluride» (state registration number 0111U004951, State Fund for Basic Research of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, 2011-2012) – N.S. ., researcher.

5. “Thermoelectric materials based on nanoscale structures of compounds IV-VI” (state registration number 0111U001766, Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, 2011-2012) – Ph.D., researcher.

6. “Nanoscale Semiconductor Structures Based on IV-VI Compounds for Thermoelectric Energy Converters” (State Registration Number 0110U006281, Target Comprehensive Program for Fundamental Research of NAS of Ukraine “Fundamental Problems of Nanostructured Systems, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnologies”, 2010-2014). , researcher.

7. “Development and optimization of technology for production of massive, thin-film and nanostructured materials based on Pb-Bi (Sb) -Te connections for thermoelectric energy converters” (state registration number 0111U001766, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2013-2014) – p. PhD, researcher.

8. Joint Ukrainian-Belarusian research project with the support of the State Fund for Basic Research of the State Committee for Information Science of Ukraine ‘Receive of quantum-size structures on the base of IV-VI semiconductors and investigate their heat and electronic transport processes by non-contact laser-optical diagnostic’ (project number F54.1 / 051) – researcher, Ph.D.

9. Researcher of NATO Science for Peace and Security Science Program project: ‘Thermoelectric Materials and Devices for Energy Saving and Security Increase’ (NATO SPS G4536. 2014-2016).

Address:  Shevchenko str, 57, Ivano-Frankivsk, 76018, Ukraine

Phone: +380 342 596082

Phone : +380 95 8430230

Email: ihor.horichok@pnu.edu.ua