Dr Pavel Borisov

• Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University, UK (2016 - present)
• Research Assistant Professor in Physics, West Virginia University, USA (2013 - 2016)
• Postoctoral Research Associate in Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK (2010 - 2012)
• Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2009)
• Dipl.-Phys. (Distinction), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (2004)

Research areas

• Thin film growth by physical vapour deposition, preparation and characterisation of heterostructures and multilayers
• Devices for neuromorphic computing, memristors. Read more about it
• Magnetic, magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials. Measurements of the magnetoelectric effect

Research grants

• Oxide recurrent neural networks (PI)
• Neuromorphic memristive circuits to simulate inhibitory and excitatory dynamics of neuron networks: from physiological similarities to deep learning (CI)
• Integrated atomic force and confocal fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope with fibre-coupled infrared detector for materials research (CI)
• Loughborough University EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment (CI)
• EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment 2020/21 (CI)
• Rapid Prototyping of Novel Devices with In-situ Deposition, Imaging and Nanolithography (CI)

Equipment and techniques

• Fabrication: thin film growth by magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition. Ability to grow metal, oxide and nitride films. Photolithography in a clean room, ion milling (ATC-Orion-IM from AJA).  Ultrasonic wedge bonding.
• Material characterisation: X-ray diffraction, reflectometry, atomic force microscopy (including AFM-FLIM). XPS, SEM and TEM are available at LMCC. Transport measurements at 0.3K - 400K by Cryogenic mCFMS.
• Device characterisation: I-V, C-V and pulse measurements (6 channels) by 4200 Keithley SCS parameter analyzer with an attached EverBeing probe station. AC impedance spectroscopy by Metrohm Autolab.
• Magnetic characterisation: Magneto-optic Kerr effect, SQUID from Quantum Design, VSM from Cryogenic mCFMS (up to 9T).

Selected publications

• Transition from noise-induced to self-sustained current spiking generated by a NbOx thin film threshold switch, B. A. Johnson, K. Brahim, A. G. Balanov, S. Savel'ev, and P. Borisov, Applied Physics Letters 118, 023502 (2021)
• Search for the magnetic monopole at a magnetoelectric surface, Q.N. Meier, M. Fechner, T. Nozaki, M. Sahashi, Z. Salman, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, P. Schoenherr, M. Lilienblum, P. Borisov, I.E. Dzyaloshinskii, M. Fiebig, H. Luetkens, N.A. Spaldin, Physical Review X 9, 011011 (2019)
• Structural and electrical characterization of polycrystalline NbO₂ thin film vertical devices grown on TiN-coated SiO₂/Si substrates, T. Joshi, P. Borisov, D. Lederman, Journal of Applied Physics 124, 114502 (2018)
• Magnetoelectric properties of 500-nm films, P. Borisov, T. Ashida, T. Nozaki, M. Sahashi, D. Lederman, Physical Review B 93, 174415 (2016)
• Multiferroic BaCoF₄ in Thin Film Form: Ferroelectricity, Magnetic Ordering, and Strain, P. Borisov, T.A. Johnson, A.C. García-Castro, A. KC, D. Schrecongost, C. Cen,A.H. Romero, D. Lederman, ACS applied materials & interfaces 8, 2694-2703 (2016)
• Designing switchable polarization and magnetization at room temperature in an oxide, P. Mandal, M.J. Pitcher, J. Alaria, H. Niu, P. Borisov, P. Stamenov, J.B. Claridge, M.J. Rosseinsky, Nature 525, 363-366 (2015)
• Preparation, characterization, and electrical properties of epitaxial NbO2 thin film lateral devices, T. Joshi, T.R. Senty, P. Borisov, A.D. Bristow, D. Lederman, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 48, 335308 (2015)
• Tilt engineering of spontaneous polarization and magnetization above 300 K in a bulk layered perovskite, M.J. Pitcher, P. Mandal, M.S. Dyer, J. Alaria, P. Borisov, H. Niu, J.B. Claridge, M.J. Rosseinsky, Science 347 (6220), 420-424 (2015)
• Electric in-plane polarization in multiferroic CoFe₂O₄/BaTiO₃ nanocomposite tuned by magnetic fields, C. Schmitz-Antoniak, D. Schmitz, P. Borisov, F.M.F. De Groot, S. Stienen, A. Warland, B. Krumme, R. Feyerherm, E. Dudzik, W. Kleemann, H. Wende, Nature communications 4, 2051 (2013)
• Growth of M-type hexaferrite thin films with conical magnetic structure, P. Borisov, J. Alaria, T. Yang, S.R.C. McMitchell, M.J. Rosseinsky, Applied Physics Letters 102 (3), 032902 (2013)
• Coexistence of antiferromagnetic and spin cluster glass order in the magnetoelectric relaxor multiferroic PbFe0.5Nb0.5O3, W. Kleemann, V.V. Shvartsman, P. Borisov, A. Kania, Physical review letters 105 (25), 257202 (2010)
• (Sr, Mn) TiO 3: A Magnetoelectric Multiglass, V.V. Shvartsman, S. Bedanta, P. Borisov, W. Kleemann, A. Tkach, P.M. Vilarinho, Physical review letters 101, 165704 (2008)
• Superconducting quantum interference device setup for magnetoelectric measurements, P. Borisov, A. Hochstrat, V.V. Shvartsman, W. Kleemann, Review of Scientific Instruments 78 (10), 106105 (2007)
• Magnetoelectric exchange bias systems in spintronics, X. Chen, A. Hochstrat, P. Borisov, W. Kleemann, Applied physics letters 89 (20), 202508 (2006)
• Magnetoelectric switching of exchange bias, P. Borisov, A. Hochstrat, X. Chen, W. Kleemann, C. Binek, Physical Review Letters 94 (11), 117203 (2005)

• PHC120 Surfaces, Thin Films and High Vacuum (module leader)
• PHD109 Characterisation Techniques in Solid State Physics
• PHC904 Research Methods in Physics
• PHB903 Physics Laboratory II
• Final year project supervision for BSc, MPhys and MSc finalists
• Personal tutor, visiting placement tutor

• Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
• Postgraduate Master's Admissions

• Research associates
  • Amir Mehrnejat
  • Anshu Gaur
• PhD students
  
  • Alex Gabbitas, Josh Donald (thin film memristor devices)
  • Christopher Briggs (magnetoelectric and multiferroic materials, primary supervisor is Dr Joseph Betouras)
• Former members: Kamal Brahim, Aidan Murphy, Dr Debi Pattnaik, Dr Ben Johnson