Georges Pavlidis

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D. (+MS) Georgia Institute of Technology (2018)
• M.Eng. University of London (2013)

Research Focus

Developing new technology for solving today’s big data, energy, medical, space and quantum engineering challenges. His plan is to develop novel methods which will reveal complex processes that occur on the nanoscale. Examples of his research range from studying how heat is transferred in wireless devices to understanding the failure mechanisms in neuromorphic devices. By doing so, Dr. Pavlidis aims to improve the efficiency and performance of the next generation radio frequency (6G+) and power electronics (electric vehicles). His future research interests include monitoring the degradation in high performance systems as well as understanding the thermal properties of 2-D materials with outlook to quantum technologies.

Publications

Pavlidis, B. Foley, S. Graham, “Thermal Management of Gallium Nitride Electronics: Gate Resistance Thermometry: An Electrical Thermal Characterization Technique”, Book Chapter, Elsevier, March 2022

Ma, G. Pavlidis, E. Dillon, V. Beltran, J.J. Schwartz, M. Thoury, F. Borondics, C. Sandt, K. Kjoller, B. Berrie, A. Centrone, “Micro to nano: multiscale IR analyses reveal zinc soap heterogeneity in a 19th-century painting by Corot”, Analytical Chemistry, February 2022

Pavlidis, J.J. Schwartz, J. Matson, T. Folland, S. Liu, J.H. Edgar, J.D. Caldwell, A. Centrone, “Experimental confirmation of long hyperbolic polariton lifetimes in monoisotopic (10B) hexagonal boron nitride at room temperature”, APL Materials, Vol. 9, Issue 9, pp. 091109, 2021

Ma, G. Pavlidis, E. Dillon, K. Kjoller, B. Berrie, A. Centrone, “Nanoscale IR spectroscopy: From Principles to Nanoscale Imaging and Identification of Metal Soaps”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 27, Issue S1, pp. 2814-2815, August 2021

Pavlidis, A.M. Hilton, J.L. Brown, E.R. Heller, S. Graham, “Monitoring the Joule Heating Profile of GaN/SiC HEMTs via Cross Sectional Thermal Imaging”, Journal of Applied Physics, Editor’s Pick, Vol. 12, Issue 7, pp. 75705, 2020

Pavlidis, L. Yates, D. Kendig, C.F. Lo, H. Marchand, B. Barabadi, S. Graham, “The effect of Superlattices on the thermal performance of GaN/Si HEMTs using near-bandgap thermoreflectance imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 67, Issue 3, pp. 822-827, 2020

Ma, V. Beltran, G. Ramer, G. Pavlidis, D. Parkinson, M. Thoury, T. Meldrum, A. Centrone, B. Berrie, “Revealing the Distribution of Metal Carboxylates in Oil Paint from the Micro‐ to Nanoscale”, Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 58, Issue 34, pp. 11652-11656, 2019

Pavlidis, S.H. Kim, I. Abid, M. Zegaoui, F. Medjdoub, S. Graham, “The Effects of AlN and Copper Back Side Deposition on the Performance of Etched Back GaN/Si HEMTs”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 40, Issue 7, pp. 1060-1063, 2019

Goodwill, G. Ramer, D. Li, B. Hoskins, G. Pavlidis, J.J. McClelland, A. Centrone, J. Bain, M. Skowronski, “Spontaneous current constriction in threshold switching devices”, Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 1628, 2019

A. Cutivet, G. Palvidis, B. Hassan, M. Bouchilaoun, C. Rodriguez, A. Soltani, S. Graham, F. Boone, H. Maher, “Scalable Modeling of Transient Self-Heating of GaN High-Electron-Mobility Transistors Based on Experimental Measurements”, IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices, Vol. 66, Issue 5, pp. 2139-215, 2019