Personnel
Dr. Yehuda Braiman
Group Leader
Optical & Quantum Systems Group
Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research
ORNL/CSMD
One Bethel Valley Road, PO Box 2008
Bldg. 6010, MS-6355
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
865-241-2065
braimany@ornl.gov
Dr. Yehuda Braiman is a Senior Research Staff Member and the Leader of a Complex Nonlinear Systems Group at the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR), CS&D at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Tel Aviv, Israel in 1993.
Dr Braiman's research interests include (i) arrays of semiconductor and solid state lasers, Josephson junctions and quantum dots; (ii) friction and control of friction at the nanoscale; and (iii) synchronization and control of chaos in nonlinear distributed systems. Dr. Braiman published above 20 refereed journal papers and 5 refereed papers in Conference Proceedings. Dr Braiman's major research accomplishments include: (i) Discovery of chaos in Josephson junctions (with E. Ben Jacob and Y. Imry, 1980); (ii) Devised a method to control chaos (Small Periodic Perturbations, with I. Goldhirsch, 1990), and (iii) Discovery that quenched disorder can be used to control spatiotemporal chaos. This research was highlighted on the cover page of Nature, (Taming Spatiotempoal Chaos with Disorder, with W. L. Ditto and J. F. Lindner, 1995). The total amount of times work has been cited (according to Science Citation Index) exceeded 500.
Chaired Conferences:
Symposium "Dynamics and Friction in Sub-Micron Confining Sysytems", 223 ACS National Meeting, April 7-11, Orlando, FL.
Awards:
UT-Battelle Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement (2000)
Patent Disclosures;
Y. Braiman and Y. Liu, "Laser Array Synchronization", US patent application No 09/999; 187 (November 30, 2001).
Media:
Membership: APS and IEEE
