Rate My Professor Enver Tarhan

Enver Tarhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Izmir Institute of Technology. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics from Ege University in 1992, M.Sc. in Physics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1995, and Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2004. His academic career has focused on semiconductor physics and spectroscopy, areas in which he has made notable contributions through experimental studies of optical and vibrational properties in various materials. At Izmir Institute of Technology, Tarhan teaches general physics courses and conducts research on thin films, phonons, and nanostructures, contributing to the department's activities in solid-state physics.

Tarhan's research output includes publications on key topics such as the growth of Cu2ZnSnS4 absorber layers on flexible metallic substrates for thin film solar cell applications (Thin Solid Films, 2015, with S. Yazici et al.), optical phonons in Pb1-xEuxTe epilayers and PbTe/EuTe superlattices exhibiting the Berreman effect (Physical Review B, 2001, with Aigle et al.), lifetimes of hydrogen and deuterium in semiconductors (Physical Review Letters, 2001, with Budde et al.), Lyman spectrum of holes bound to substitutional 3d transition metal ions in III-V hosts like GaAs, GaP, and InP (Physical Review B, 2003, with Tarhan et al.), direct observation of LO phonon-plasmon coupled modes in n-GaAs and n-InxGa1-xAs epilayers (Physical Review B, 2004, with Ibanez et al.), broadened far-infrared absorption spectra for hydrated and dehydrated myoglobin (Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2004, with Zhang et al.), origin of a localized vibrational mode in GaSb substrates with MBE-grown ZnTe epilayers (Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2006, with Kim et al.), structural, optical, and morphological properties of CaF2 thin films using Thermionic Vacuum Arc (Materials Letters, 2013, with N. Emre Cetin et al.), and investigation of alpha-lactalbumin protein nanotubes using optical spectroscopy (Journal of Dairy Research, 2014, with Özgür Tarhan and Sebnem Harsa). His work has received over 570 citations, underscoring his influence in semiconductor spectroscopy and related fields.