Igor Grekhov
Igor Vsevolodovich Grekhov, born September 10, 1934, in Smolensk, is a Soviet and Russian physicist and electrical engineer who helped found the Soviet power semiconductor device industry. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Early life and education: Grekhov grew up in Simferopol, Crimea, and studied electrical engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Career: From 1958 to 1962 he worked at the Electrovipryamitel factory in Saransk as a research engineer and lab head. In 1962 he joined the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in Leningrad, advancing from junior to senior scientist and leading groups and a research sector. He earned a PhD in 1967 and a Doktor nauk in 1974 in semiconductor physics. He headed the Power Electronics Laboratory from 1982 to 2019 and led the Solid-State Electronics Department from 2004 to 2014. He also taught Semiconductor Devices at Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University from 1984 to 1994. He was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1991 and became a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Contributions and recognition: Grekhov’s work focuses on the physics of solid-state devices and their use in power electronics, guiding developments from theory to prototypes and to mass production. His pioneering efforts in the 1960s and 1970s helped establish the field of power semiconductor device engineering in the Soviet Union. He also conducted research on tunneling in MIS structures, ferroelectric memories, porous silicon, and superconductive ceramics. He co-authored four books, about 200 patents, and more than 600 scientific papers. His awards include the Lenin Prize (1966), the USSR State Prize (1987), and the State Prize of Russia (2002).
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