Ihor HORICHOK

 

Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Doctor of Science (Phys.&Math.), Professor; Google Scholar;
Personal information
Editorial Team member of the “Physics and Chemistry of Solid State” (ISSN 1729-4428)
Organizing committee member International Conference on Physics and Technology of Thin Films and Nanosystems
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Position and Academic Status

Position: Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Academic Degree: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Specialty: Solid State Physics)
Academic Title: Senior Research Fellow
Publications: Author of more than 100 scientific publications
Languages: Ukrainian (native), English (reading with a dictionary)

Education

Specialist Degree:
1999–2004, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Specialty: Radiophysics and Electronics

Postgraduate Studies (PhD program):
2004–2007, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Candidate of Chemical Sciences (PhD):
2010, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Specialty: Solid State Chemistry

Employment History

Senior Laboratory Assistant, Physico-Chemical Institute,
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2007–2008)

Head of Laboratories, Department of Physics and Chemistry of Solid State,
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (2008–2015)

Doctoral Studies (2014–2017)

Professor, Department of Physics and Chemistry of Solid State (2018–2024)

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy (since 2025)

Doctoral Dissertation

Dissertation Title:
Defect Subsystem of Heterophase Thermoelectric Materials Based on A₄B₆ Compounds and Their Properties

Year of Defense: 2019
Decision of the Academic Council: No. 9/1, September 27, 2019
Field of Science: Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Scientific Specialty: 01.04.07 – Solid State Physics

Research Interests

Research Interests:
Technology of semiconductor material synthesis, defect structure of semiconductors, electrophysical properties.

Objects of Research:
Regularities of defect subsystem formation in crystals during synthesis and thermal treatment; mechanisms of point defect influence on physical and chemical properties of semiconductors.

Materials Studied:
Binary semiconductor materials of II–VI compounds (ZnTe, CdTe) and IV–VI compounds (GeTe, SnTe, PbTe), as well as solid solutions based on them.

Participation in Research Projects

  1. Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Nanostructured Materials Based on Pb(Sn)-Cd(Zn)-Te Solid Solutions
    (State Registration No. 0117U006425, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2017–2020) – Senior Researcher, Project Leader

  2. New Composite and Thin-Film Thermoelectric Materials Based on Multicomponent Ag-Pb-Sb-Te (LAST) Compounds: Technology, Properties, Applications
    (State Registration No. 0115U002303, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2015–2016) – Senior Researcher, Project Leader

  3. Dominant Point Defects and Mechanisms of Solid Solution Formation Based on AIVBVI and AIIBVI Compounds
    (State Registration No. 0107U006768, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2008–2012) – Researcher

  4. Technology of Lead Telluride–Based Thermoelectric Materials for Medium-Temperature Cascade Modules
    (State Registration No. 0109U007537, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2009–2010) – Researcher

  5. Joint Ukrainian–Turkish Research Project: “New Semiconductor Materials Based on Lead Telluride for Thermoelectric Energy Transformers”
    (State Registration No. 0111U005501, State Agency of Ukraine for Science, Innovation and Informatization, 2010–2011) – Researcher

  6. Technology, Spectral and Thermoelectric Properties of Low-Dimensional Heterostructure Layers Based on Lead Telluride
    (State Registration No. 0111U004951, State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine, 2011–2012) – Researcher

  7. Thermoelectric Materials Based on Nanoscale Structures of IV–VI Compounds
    (State Registration No. 0111U001766, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2011–2012) – Senior Researcher

  8. Nanoscale Semiconductor Structures Based on IV–VI Compounds for Thermoelectric Energy Converters
    (State Registration No. 0110U006281, Targeted Integrated Program of Fundamental Research of the NAS of Ukraine
    “Fundamental Problems of Nanostructured Systems, Nanomaterials, and Nanotechnologies”, 2010–2014) – Researcher

  9. Development and Optimization of Technologies for Bulk, Thin-Film, and Nanostructured Materials Based on Pb–Bi(Sb)–Te Systems for Thermoelectric Energy Converters
    (State Registration No. 0111U001766, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2013–2014) – Senior Researcher

  10. Joint Ukrainian–Belarusian Research Project Supported by the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine:
    “Fabrication of Quantum-Size Structures Based on IV–VI Semiconductors and Investigation of Their Thermal and Electronic Transport Processes Using Non-Contact Laser-Optical Diagnostics”
    (Project No. F54.1/051) – Senior Researcher, Researcher

Main publications
Scopus
Web of Science

Research papers:

  1. Z. Dashevsky, I. Horichok, M. Maksymuk, A. Rifqi Muchtar, B. Srinivasan, T. Mori.
    Feasibility of high performance in p-type Ge1-xBixTe materials for thermoelectric modules // J
    Am Ceram Soc. 2022;1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.18371 (Q1)
  2. M. Maksymuk, B. Dzundza, O. Matkivsky, I. Horichok, R. Shneck, Z. Dashevsky.
    Development of the high performance thermoelectric unicouple based on Bi2Te3 compounds //
    Journal of Power Sources 530 (2022) 231301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231301
    (Q1)
  3. Матківський О.М., Маковишин В.І., Купчак Т.І., Матеїк Г.Д., Горічок І.В.
    Термоелектричні властивості композитних матеріалів на основі телуриду свинцю // Фізика
    і Хімія Твердого Тіла Т. 23, № 2 (2022) С. 368-374.
    https://journals.pnu.edu.ua/index.php/pcss/article/view/5836 (Q4).
  4. T. Parashchuk,.  I. Horichok,.  A. Kosonowski, A.Kruk, K.T.Wojciechowski, Insight into
    the transport properties and enhanced thermoelectric performance of n-type Pb 1−x Sb x Te.
    Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021, 860, 158355
  5. Прокопів В.В., Горічок І.В., Семко Т.О., Дзумедзей Р.О., Матеїк Г.Д., Хшановська О.І. Термодинамічний аналіз дефектної підсистеми кристалів плюмбум телуриду з домішкою оксисену. Фізика і хімія твердого тіла. 2019. T.20, №1. С.40-45.
  6. Прокопів В.В., Галущак М.О., Горічок І.В., Паращук Т.О., Матківський О.М., Бачук В.В., Дзумедзей Р.О. Термоелектричні властивості і дефектна підсистема гетеро фазних матеріалів на основі плюмбум телуриду з домішкою сурми. Фізика і хімія твердого тіла. 2019. T.20, №2. C.149-155.
  7. Nykyruy L., Ruvinskiy M., Ivakin E., Kostyuk O., Horichok I., Kisialiou I., Yavorskyy Y., Hrubyak A. Low-dimensional systems on the base of PbSnAgTe (LATT) compounds for thermoelectric application, Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. 2019. V. 10. p. 10–18.
  8. HorichokI.V., Parashchuk T.O. Point defects in PbCdTe solid solutions // JAP. 2019 р.
  9. Ihor Horichok, Ph.D.; Taras Parashchuk; Mariia Pylyponiuk; Oksana Soroka, Ph.D.; Marian Voloshynovych, Ph.D.. Defects subsystem and homogeneity region of ZnTe and CdTe crystals // Journal of Crystal Growth, 486 (2018) 10–18
  10. I.V. Horichok, V.V. Prokopiv, R.I. Zapukhlyak, O.M. Matkivskyj/, T.O. Semko, I.O. Savelikhina, T.O. Parashchuk. Effects of Oxygen Interaction with PbTe Surface and Their Influence on Thermoelectric Material Properties // Journal of Nano- and Electronic Physics. – Vol. 10 No 5, 05006(5pp) (2018).
  11. Prokopiv V., Horichok I., Mazur T., Matkivsky O., Turovska L. Thermoelectric materials based on samples of microdispersed PbTe and CdTe // Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties (NAP – 2018). – 2018. – Part 1. – P. 01SPN57-1-01SPN57-4.
  12. Горічок І.В., Галущак М.О., Семко Т.О., Матківський О.М., Коневич О.М.. Електротехнічна модель провідності пресованих термоелектричних матеріалів на основі PbTe // Фізика і хімія твердого тіла – 2018 – T.19, №2 – C.317.
  13. Прокопів В.В., Горічок І.В., Семко Т.О., Матківський О.М., Дзумедзей Р.О., Матеїк Г.Д., Коневич О.П. Механізми теплопровідності у пресованих термоелектричних матеріалах на основі сполук А4В6 // Фізика і хімія твердого тіла – 2018 – T.19, №3 – C124.
  14. Возняк О.М., Горічок I.В., Никируй Л.I. Застосування теорії S-матриці розсіювання до аналізу резонансних потенціалів. (Навчальнi матерiали з пiдготовки фахiвцiв за магiстерською програмою зi спецiальностей 104 – ”фiзика та астрономiя” та 105 – ”прикладна фiзика i наноматерiали”). Iвано-Франківськ – 2018.  Електронний ресурс. Наукова бібліотека ПНУ.
  15. Матківський О.М., Прокопів В.В., Горічок І.В., Пилипонюк М.І., Шемерлюк Ю., Матеїк Г.Д., Юрчишин Л.Д. Композитні термоелектричні матеріали на основі телуридів свинцю та кадмію // ФХТТ. –2017. – Т.18, №4.
  16. D.M. Freik, C.A. Kryskov, I.V. Horichok, T.S. Lyuba, O.S. Krynytsky, O.M. Rachkovsky. Synthesis, properties and mechanisms of doping with Sb of thermoelectric lead telluride PbTe:Sb // Journal of Thermoelectricity, 2013, №2, 42-50..
  17. D. Freik, R. Ahiska, I. Gorichok, L. Nykyruy, Yu. Lysyuk, K. Aktas, S. Acar, G. Omer. Synthesis and Analyses of Thermoelectric Lead Telluride // Journal of Materials Science and Engineering B, 2013, 3(1), 32-39.
  18. Д.М. Фреїк, І.В. Горічок, М.О. Шевчук „Термодинаміка власних точкових дефектів і область гомогенності моносульфіду самарію” Український хімічний журнал, 2012, Т. 78, № 9, 25–29.
  19. Prokopiv, V. V., Gorichok, I. V., & Pisklinets, U. M. (2009). Proper point defects in cadmium telluride with excess of cadmium. Inorganic Materials, 45(10), 1097-1102..
  20. Gorichok, I. V. (2012). Enthalpy of formation of Schottky defects in semiconductors. Physics of the Solid State, 54(7), 1459-1462..
Educational activities
Teaching Courses

  • Molecular Physics (SO(FM)-21, PF-11, F-11)
  • Thermoelectric Phenomena (PF-41)
  • Point Defects in Crystals (FA (Master’s)-11)
  • Scientific Seminars (PFN (Master’s)-11)
  • Point Defects in Crystals (PFN (Master’s)-11)
  • Physical and Technological Fundamentals of Thermoelectric Materials Science (PFN (Master’s)-11)
  • Methods of Crystal Growth and Synthesis (FA (Postgraduate)-11)
  • Thermodynamics of Real Crystals (FA (Postgraduate)-11)
  • Thermoelectric Phenomena in Solids (FA (Postgraduate)-11)
Contact

Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University
76018 Ivano-Frankivsk, Shevchenko St., 57
Faculty of Physics and Engineering
room 116a
ihor.horichok@cnu.edu.ua