Dr. Virgaudas Kubilius
Associate professor
Scientific Interests, Keywords
My research interests mainly concerns electronics, solid state chemistry, materials science, computing sciences and informatics. My past and present research was focused on the automatization, control and modeling of chemical processes and characterizations of physical/electrical properties by digital electronics. My research activity includes the writing of softwares, developing of interfaces, designing/realization of homemade measurement systems and control units for chemical processes, dedicated to the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional materials and thin film technologies with particular emphasis on the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition.
Project and/or Grant leadership
Participation in national and European projects and networks
1. MOCVD of next-generation transparent oxide conducting layers. Synthesis and research.
Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, 2019-2022
2. Transparent and electrically conductive oxide layers for UV and IR optoelectronic applications.
Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, 2013-2015
3. French – Lithuanian collaboration program GILIBERT, EGIDE. Vilnius University – IJL/University of Lorraine, project: “Thin films of (K,Li)(Nb,Ta)O3: PI-MOCVD synthesis and application for SAW, 2011-2012.
4. EU FP6, Project CHEMAPH - Chemical Vapor Deposition of Chalcogenide Materials For Phase-Change Memories, contract 027561 (01.01.2006-01.01.2008)
5. High-k Dielectrics Layers for Future Semiconductors Technologies. Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation, 2005
6. EU FP5, Project. CERMOX - Advanced Ultra-Thin Ceramic Membranes for Efficient Industrial Processes. Contract G5RD-2000-00351 (01. 01.2001 – 01. 07.2004)
7. EU FP5, Network MULTIMETOX - Metal Oxide Multilayers Obtained by Cost-Effective New CVD Technologies for Magnetoelectronic Microsystems and Nanotechnologies. Contract G5RT-CT-1999-05001 (01.03.2000-01.03.2003)
8. EU FP4, Program COPERNICUS. Functional Thin OXIDE Films Obtained By New MOCVD Techniques. Contract IC15-CT96-0735 (01. 02.1997 - 01. 02.2000).
9. ECO-NET program (France). Trilateral France-Lithuania-Slovakia project: “Thin Films and Superlattices of Functional Oxide Materials“, 2004-2005. Institute Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble-Vilnius University-Institute of Electrical Engineering, SAS.
10. French – Lithuanian collaboration program GILIBERT, EGIDE. Vilnius University – LMGP/INPG “New MOCVD Technologies for the Growth of High Temperature Superconductors”, 2003-2004.
Visiting scholar
1990 (6 months) Moscow State University, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
Preparation of silver doped HTSC films by Spray pyrolysis
2004 (1month) Grenoble Institute of Technology, LMGP, Grenoble, France
Installation of homemade setup for automatic critical current density of superconductors
2005 (1month) Grenoble Institute of Technology, LMGP, Grenoble, France
Installation of homemade setup for measurements of Hall effect
2007 (1month) Grenoble Institute of Technology, LMGP, Grenoble, France
Installation of homemade setup for measurements of dielectric properties as a function of temperature
2009 (1month) University of Metz, LMOPS, Metz, France
Development of Labview interface for the measurements resolved in time of photoluminescence
2009-2010 Henry Poincaré University, IJL, Nancy, France
(3 months) Development of Labview interface for the automatic measurements of SAW properties. Development of Labview interface for the control of the injection system in MOCVD reactor.
Other activities related to the development of the country's economy, culture and society
Developed software and electronics for:
- High speed Quartz microbalance system for the transient study of the electrochemical electrode processes
- Pulsed Injection MOCVD reactor and thin film deposition control, system for injecting with very high precision and reliability for PI MOCVD reactor
- System for characterization of the high – Tc superconductor properties. Measurement of the critical temperature, critical current density and Hall effect
- System for characterization of the magneto-resistive properties as a function of temperature
- Homemade setup for measurements of dielectric properties as a function of temperature
- Labview interface for the measurements resolved in time of photoluminescence
- Labview interface for the automatic measurements of SAW properties
- Precise Hall effect automatic measurement system for TCO characterization.
Programming languages :
Labview, Python, Delphi, C++, PHP + SQL, Pascal, Basic, Quasic, Fortran, Assembler (Intel 8088 microprocessor family, PDP-11 architecture processors, 8051 based controllers)