About Dr. Kostylev
The following is some background information on your consultant, Dr. Sergey Kostylev, including his education and experience.
EDUCATION
Dr. Kostylev received his B.S., M.S. in Electro-physics from Dnepropetrovsk University in Ukraine followed by a Ph.D in the physics
of semiconductors and insulators (PSI) from the same University. In 1980, he received his Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics
in PSI from the Moscow Institute of Radio-electronics and Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kostylev is also a certified
professor in the physics of semiconductors.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
In mid-2008, Dr. Kostylev founded Onyx International Consulting to offer his years of study and knowledge of his field to various companies looking to improve on today's technologies. In that time, he has researched ways of using phenomena of bulk negative differential conductivity (NDC) and electronic and thermal instabilities in solids with various shapes and materials of contacts to improve functionality, scaling pattern and reliability in nanoscale devices, improved the construction and technology of nanoscale cells and arrays of electronic and optic solid state switches and nonvolatile memory, discovered new features of transient phenomena in chalcogenide switches and phase- change memory devices, developed new methods of testing and improving general and specific parameters of nonvolatile electronic and ionic nanoscale memory, and created methodology and equipment for using characteristics of electrical admittance of Biologically-Active Points (BAP) as a tool for express-diagnostics of organs and systems of human body. He also participated in the design and production of super micro-miniature microwave complexes to study the effects of the interaction of electromagnetic waves (EMV) of very high frequency (VHF) and ultra low power (ULP) with living cells.
Clients include the following companies: Westa ISIC, RAMED, Ltd; Nantero.
From 1999 until mid-2008, Dr. Kostylev worked as the principal research scientist at Ovonyx Technologies, Inc., Rochester Hills, MI. There, he worked on the development of phase change electrical memory and the combination of memory devices with threshold switches; he also searched for new materials and their combination for memory and switching applications. Dr. Kostylev also planned new processing experiments and device structure, collected and analyzed characterization data, and participated in the development of critical path and schedule planning, as well as product development goals and milestones. He provided scientific supervision of cross-functional development teams and recommended ways for resolution of issues that arise during memory and solid-state switch development. Dr. Kostylev also prognosed and tested new alloys and device structure, and invented and initiated creative critical ways to keep the program on planned track. Again, Dr. Kostylev was also responsible for presenting data to potential and existing international and domestic customers and negotiating product development goals and milestones.
From 1991-1999, Dr. Kostylev worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Energy Conversion Devices, Inc, Troy, MI. At Energy Conversion Devices, he worked in development of High-Speed Multistate Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM) phase-change memory (PCM) alloys and devices. He was also responsible for planning new experiments, as well as collecting and analyzing characterization data and scientific supervision of teamwork. Dr. Kostylev made recommendations for resolution of issues that arise during product development Prognosing and testing new alloys and device structure, and has proven that OVONIC memory could work in nanosecond regime. He insisted on introducing the high repetition rate cycle-life tests and measured cycle-life up to 3*10^13 cycles, and designed and introduced the ring structure devices. He discovered the "dead zone" in programming of ring structure devices and came with an explanation by the "electronic filament" disintegration. In addition to his laboratory work, Dr. Kostylev was also responsible for presenting data to potential customers and participating in fund-raising, negotiating international JVC on photovoltaic and NIMH batteries, and participating in starting production.
From 1967 to 1991, he was the head of the Department of Semiconductor Electronics and Functional Elements of Control Systems at the Institute of Technical Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in Dnepropetrovsk. During his time there, he designed and built fabrication laboratories for GaAs Gunn-devices and field transistors, for synthesis of amorphous alloys and for deposition of thin chalcogenide films for memory and switching devices. He built five test stations for high-speed phenomena characterization in negative differential conductivity media, created a laboratory for producing elements and equipment using very low intensity microwaves for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He also was the principal investigator in more than 20 projects in Fundamental and Applied Physics on Electronic Instabilities in a media with a bulk Negative Differential Conductivity (NDC), particularly "GaAs Gunn-effect controllable oscillators and amplifiers", "Electronic switching in amorphous semiconductors", "Electronic effects in solid-state plasma", "Stable S- and N-NDC devices in resonant circuits", Chalcogenide microwave switches", "Interaction of microwaves and charge-carrier waves in semiconductors and thin-film devices", "Interlayer interaction in thin-film multilayered semiconductor structures". Dr. Kostylev also supervised 12 Ph.D. and 3 D.Sc. dissertations.
From 1962 to 1967, S. Kostylev worked as an assistant and associate professor at the Dnepropetrovsk State University in Ukraine where he was teaching 3 classes and doing research on device deposition and study of electroluminescence in crystals and thin-films of II-VI semiconductors on the role of conductive inclusions in electroluminescence of ZnS and ZnSe. Structure, electrical properties and electroluminescence of sublimed ZnS:Mn films. He developed model for injection electroluminescence efficiency from light-emitting diodes and prepared 3 sets of program documentation for M.S and Ph.D. students.
Dr. Kostylev has coauthored 3 books: “Electronic switching in amorphous semiconductors”, “Semiconductors with bulk negative
conductivity in microwave fields”, “Current transfer in thin-films GaAs structures”. He edited and translated into Russian a book
by A.Madan and M.Shaw, “Physics and applications of amorphous semiconductors”, and has more than 100 papers and 80 patents. (Lists
available) His skills include scientific supervision of teamwork; design of new memory and switching devices and alloys and methods
of their processing and characterization; collection and interpretation of experimental data; development of new critical experiments
and methods of improving and testing general and specific parameters of nonvolatile electronic and ionic memory; design of equipment
and methodology for diagnostics and therapy by low intensity microwaves; resolution of issues that arise during PV product development;
interaction with international and domestic customers on all levels; and teaching of general and solid-state physics and electronics.