Semiconductor physics, solid state physics, heterostructures, dissipative structures, spin phenomena, quantum wells, InAs/GaSb band gap structures, tunneling and tunnel-resonant diodes, non-equilibrium and non-stationary phenomena, phase transitions, interband optical transitions, electron-phonon interaction, optical bistability, nonlinear waves in plasma and solids, Landau quantization, Landau attenuation, quasi-classical method, surface physics and microelectronic structures.
Main publications:
A. A. Zakharova, I. A. Semenikhin, K. A. Chao, “Optical Anisotropy of InAs/GaSb Broken-Gap Quantum Wells”, JETP, 114:5 (2012), 731-737
A. Zakharova, “Interband tunnelling in
semiconductor heterostructures”, Semicond. Sci. Technol., 13:6 (1998), 569–575
A. Zakharova, S. T. Yen, K. A. Chao, “Hybridization of electron, light-hole, and heavy-hole states in InAs/GaSb quantum wells”, Phys. Rev. B, 64:23 (2001), 235332
A. A. Zakharova, “Interband resonant tunneling in superconductor heterostructures in a quantizing magnetic field”, Physics of the Solid State, 40:11 (1998), 1923-1928
A. Zakharova, I. Semenikhin, K. A. Chao, “Spin-Related Phenomena in InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells”, JETP Letters, 94:8 (2011), 660–664