• Research Associate, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
• Ph. D. Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• B.Eng. Optics and Optoelectronics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. .

• Next generation photovoltaics
• Semiconducting nanostructures
• Noble metal nanostructures as solar cell enhancement agents
• II-VI semiconductor thin films deposited using exotic synthesis routes
• Flexible solar cells
• Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) of thin films and nanostructures

Journal Publications

• S. Neretina, E.C. Dreaden, W. Qian, M.A. El-Sayed, R.A. Hughes, J.S. Preston and 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. 2009 (accepted).
• 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.
• X. Huang, S. Neretina, M.A. El-Sayed, Gold Nanorods: from Synthesis and Properties to Biological and Biomedical Applications, Adv. Mater. 2009, 21, 1-31. (Invited review article)
• 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. 2009, 255, 5674-5681.
• S. Neretina, R.A. Hughes, J.F. Britten, N.V. Sochinskii, J.S. Preston, and P. Mascher, The Role of Substrate Surface Termination in the Deposition of (111) CdTe on (0001) Sapphire, Appl. Phys A 2009, 96, 429–433.
• 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. 2008, 8, 2410-2418.
• 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 2008, 19, 185601/1- 185601/8.
• 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 2007, 18, 275301/1-275301/5. (Featured article)
• 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) 2007, 4, 3659-3663.
• 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. 2006, 89, 133101/1- 133101/3.
• 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 2006, 24, 606-611.
• 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. 2006, 35, 1224-1230.
• 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. 2005, 34, 786-790.

Conference Publications

• 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. Proc. of SPIE 2008, 6996, 699608/1-699608/12.
• D. Grebennikov, O. Ovchar, S. Neretina, A. Belous, P. Mascher, Characterization of columbite ceramics A1-xNb2O6 by positron annihilation spectroscopy, Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 2007, 4, 3835-3838.
• 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. 2005, 864, 567-572.
• 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 2005, 5970, 59700Y/1- 59700Y/6.

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