1. Name and Academic Rank:

Svetlana Neretina, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Full-time

2. Degrees with Fields, Institution and Date:

B.Eng., Optics & Optoelectronics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Ph.D., Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

3. Number of Years of Service on this Faculty:

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University 2009-present

4. Other Related Experience:

Post Doctoral Researcher, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007-2009

5. Consulting, Patents, Copyrights:

Provisional application No.61/624,799 “Self-Assembly of Small Structures”, April 2012

6. States in which Registered:

None

7. Journal Publications:

1. K.D. Gilroy, P. Farzinpour, A. Sundar, T. Tan, R.A. Hughes, S. Neretina, “Substrate-based galvanic replacement reactions carried out on heteroepitaxially formed silver templates”, Nano Res., DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0319-5 (2013).
2. P. Farzinpour, A. Sundar, K. D. Gilroy, Z. E. Eskin, R. A. Hughes, S. Neretina, “Dynamic templating: A large area processing route for the assembly of periodic arrays of sub-micrometer and nanoscale structures”, Nanoscale 5, 1929-1938 (2013).
3. P. Farzinpour, A. Sundar, K. D. Gilroy, Z. E. Eskin, R. A. Hughes, S. Neretina,  “Altering the dewetting characteristics of ultrathin gold and silver films using a sacrificial antimony layer”, Nanotechnology 23, 495604 (2012).
4. A. Sundar, C. Decker, R.A. Hughes, S. Neretina, “The Templated Assembly of Highly Faceted Three-Dimensional Gold Microstructures into Periodic Arrays”, Mater. Lett.  76, 155-158 (2012).
5. A. Sundar, R.A. Hughes, P. Farzinpour, K.D. Gilroy, G.A. Devenyi, J.S. Preston, S. Neretina, “Manipulating the Size Distribution of Supported Gold Nanostructures”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 013111 (2012).
6. E.C. Dreaden, S. Neretina, W. Qian, M.A. El-Sayed, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston, and P. Mascher, “Plasmonic Enhancement of Nonradiative Charge Carrier Relaxation and Proposed Effects from Enhanced Radiative Electronic Processes in Semiconductor-Gold Core-Shell Nanorod Arrays”, J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 5578-5583 (2011).
7. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, G. Stortz, J.S. Preston, and P. Mascher, “The Rapid Prototyping of Textured Amorphous Surfaces for the Graphoepitaxial Deposition of CdTe Films using Focused Ion Beam Lithography”, Appl. Phys. A 102, 259-264 (2011).
8. S. Neretina, E.C. Dreaden, W. Qian, M.A. El-Sayed, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston, P. Mascher, “The dependence of the plasmon field induced nonradiative electronic relaxation mechanisms on the gold shell thickness in vertically aligned CdTe-Au core-shell nanorods”, Nano Lett. 9, 3772-3779 (2009).
9. S. Neretina, W. Qian, E. Dreaden, M.A. El-Sayed, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston, and P. Mascher, “Exciton Lifetime Tuning by Changing the Plasmon Field Orientation with Respect to the Exciton Transition Moment Direction: CdTe-Au Core-Shell Nanorods”, Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 1242-1248 (2009).
10. X. Huang, S. Neretina, M.A. El-Sayed, “Gold Nanorods: from Synthesis and Properties to Biological and Biomedical Applications”, Adv. Mater. 21, 4880-4910 (2009) (Invited review article).
11. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, G.A. Devenyi, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “Atypical Grain Growth for (211) CdTe Films Deposited on Surface Reconstructed (100) SrTiO3 substrates”, Appl. Surf. Sci. 255, 5674-5681 (2009).
12. S. Neretina,  R.A. Hughes,  J.F. Britten, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston,  P. Mascher, “The role of substrate surface termination in the deposition of (111) CdTe on (0001) sapphire”, Appl. Phys. A 96, 429–433 (2009).
13. S. Neretina, W. Qian, E. Dreaden, M.A. El-Sayed, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “Plasmon Field Effects on the Nonradiative Relaxation of Hot Electrons in an Electronically Quantized System: CdTe-Au Core-Shell Nanowires”, Nano Lett. 8, 2410 (2008).
14. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, G.A. Devenyi, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, The “Role of Substrate Surface Alteration in the Fabrication of Vertically Aligned CdTe Nanowires”, Nanotechnology 19,  185601/1- 185601/8 (2008).
15. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, J.F. Britten, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “Vertically Aligned Wurtzite CdTe Nanowires Derived from a Catalytically Driven Growth Mode”, Nanotechnology 18,275301/1-275301/5 (2007) (Featured article).
16. S. Neretina, D. Grebennikov, R.A. Hughes, M. Weber, K.G. Lynn, P.J. Simpson, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “Defect Characterization of CdTe Thin Films using a Slow Positron Beam”, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 4, 3659-3663 (2007).
17. S. Neretina, P. Mascher, R.A. Hughes, N. Braidy, W.H. Gong, J.F. Britten, J.S. Preston, N.V. Sochinskii and P. Dippo, “Evolution of Wurtzite CdTe through the Formation of Cluster Assembled Films”,Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 133101/1- 133101/3 (2006).
18. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, N.V. Sochinskii, M. Weber, K. Lynn, J. Wojcik, G.N. Pearson, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “Growth of CdTe/Si (100) Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Photonic Applications”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 24(3), 606-611 (2006).
19. S. Neretina, Q. Zhang, R.A. Hughes, J. Britten, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston and P. Mascher, “The Role of Lattice Mismatch in the Deposition of CdTe Thin Films”, J. Electron. Mater. 35, 1224-1230 (2006).
20. S. Neretina, N.V. Sochinskii, and P. Mascher, “Optical and Microstructural Characterization of the Effects of Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTA) of CdTe Thin Films Grown on Si (100) Substrates”, J. Electron. Mater. 34, 786-790 (2005).

Conference Proceedings:

1. M.P. Mackinnon, K.D. Gilroy, A. Sundar, R.A. Hughes, S. Neretina, “The Formation of Supported Gold Nanostructures on Oxide Substrates”‘, Fall 2011 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Proc. Proc. (2011).
2. K.D. Gilroy, M.S. Islam, R.A. Hughes, B. Lee, Y. Sun, S. Neretina, “A Fabrication Procedure for a CdTe Quantum Dot Printable Hybrid Solar Cell”, ASEE Proc. Fall 2011 ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Proc. Proc. (2011).
3. Martinez, F. Cuesta-Soto, J. Garcia, J. Marti, N.V. Sochinskii, M. Abellan, J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, S. Mengali, A. Mercuri, C. Corsi, I. Reid, M. Robertson, S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes,  J. Wojcik, J.S. Preston, P. Mascher, Cadmium telluride: a silicon-compatible optical material as an alternative technology for building all-optical photonic devices. Proceedings of SPIE 6996, 699608/1-699608/12 (2008).
4. D. Grebennikov, O. Ovchar, S. Neretina, A. Belous, P. Mascher, “Characterization of columbite ceramics A1-xNb2O6 by positron annihilation spectroscopy”, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 4, 3835-3838  (2007).
5. S. Neretina, N.V. Sochinskii, P. Mascher, and E. Saucedo, Defect Characterization of CdTe Bulk Crystals Doped with Heavy Elements and Rare Earths, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 864, 567-572 (2005).
6. S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston, N.V. Sochinskii, and P. Mascher, CdTe:Ge/Si (100) Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) for Photonic Devices, Proc. of SPIE 5970, 59700Y/1- 59700Y/6 (2005).