The Physics School of the University was founded by brilliant scientists and organizers - professors O. D. Khvolson, the author of the classical course published in Russia, France and Germany, A. S. Popov, the inventor of radio and the first elected director of the institute, V. V. Skobeltsyn, M. M. Glagolev, creator of the first electrovacuum laboratory in the country's universities.
Their follower, the prominent physicist A. G. Grammakov, together with a group of colleagues in the 70s, was issued a diploma for the discovery of the distribution of helium in the earth's crust.
The equipment developed by Professor G. I. Rekalova and Associate Professor I. A. Voitsekhovskaya was used to create devices that are capable of recording infrared radiation. Under the guidance of Associate Professor V. A. Verbitsky, devices for non-contact temperature measurement of various objects were created.
Important scientific and practical results have been obtained physical method based on the phenomenon of electron paramagnetic resonance, the development of which at the department is the merit of Professor A. M. Belonogov.
Somewhat later, a number of new scientific directions arose in the field of electrodynamics of moving media, headed by Professor K. A. Barsukov.
Historically, the scientific directions of the Department of Physics of LETI have always been distinguished by their orientation towards those fundamental areas of physics that have found application in solving engineering and technical problems facing LETI. The subject of scientific research of the Department of Physics is closely related to the general basic areas of scientific research and training of LETI personnel - the development of systems and materials for automation, electronics, microelectronics and radio engineering, the analysis and application of the properties of new promising materials in the optical, microwave and IR ranges.
In accordance with the topics of the Department of Physics, research, as a rule, is of a fundamental nature, moreover, for the use of the instrumental base and for practical applications in scientific instrumentation, the department cooperates with the graduating departments of LETI.
Scientific, methodological and instrumental developments of the Department of Physics are used in research institutes and enterprises in the Russian Federation and abroad for scientific research and control of technological processes.
Today, the department has 62 employees, including 37 teachers. Professors -4, associate professors -24, researchers -4, graduate students - 6. The Department of Physics provides the course " general physics» for all technical faculties of LETI. Every day, from 300 (in the spring semester) to 650 (in the autumn semester) students pass through the educational laboratories of the department.
Head of the Department Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Chirtsov Alexander Sergeevich
Sokolov Alexander Ivanovich
Brief scientific biography
Education, degrees and titles:
- 1962 - high school No. 3 of the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region, gold medal.
- 1969 - Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. IN AND. Ulyanov (Lenin), Department of Radio Systems, diploma with honors.
- 1972 - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
- 1976 - Senior Researcher.
- 1985 - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
- 1987 - professor.
- "Acousto-thermal effect, acoustoelectric effect and nonlinear sound absorption in solids in the hydrodynamic region", LETI, 1972
- "Renormalization group, critical phenomena and state diagrams of anisotropic systems", FTI im. A.F. Ioffe Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1984
Main place of work:
- 1969 - 1972 – Post-graduate student of the Department of Electron-Ion and Vacuum Technology (EIVT) LETI.
- 1972 - 1974 – junior researcher of the department of EIVT LETI.
- 1974 - 1979 – senior researcher of the department of EIVT LETI.
- 1979 - 1986 - associate professor of the department physical electronics and optoelectronic devices (FEOP) LETI.
- 1986 - 2011 – Professor of the Department of Physical / Quantum Electronics and Optoelectronic Devices (FEOP / KEOP) of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI".
- Since 2011 – Professor of the Department of Quantum Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University.
- 1997 - 2002 - Professor of the Department of Physics, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI".
- 2002 - 2011 - Professor of the Department of Statistical Physics, St. Petersburg State University.
- 2011-2014 - Professor of the Department of KEOP of St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI".
- Since 2011 - Professor of the Department of Physical and Technical Sciences of St. Petersburg Academic University - Scientific and Educational Center for Nanotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
- St. Petersburg State University – Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Collective Phenomena in Solids, Modern Problems quantum physics". Previously, at St. Petersburg State University, he taught courses on "Critical Phenomena in Anisotropic Systems" and "Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics".
- SPbAU - "Collective phenomena in condensed matter", "Quantum informatics".
- St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" - previously at LETI he taught the courses "Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics" (faculty general), "Solid State Physics" (faculty general), "Physical Foundations of Electronic Engineering" (faculty general), "Physics and Optics of Photo-Energy Materials", "Phase transitions", "Superconductivity", "Physics of nanosystems".
- DAAD (Germany) – research grant 1992
- The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation - grants 93-7.1-51, 94-7.17-351, 97-14.2-16, E00-3.2-132, E02-3.2-266, A03-2.9-227.
- International Science Foundation (ISF) – 1993 grant, 1994 travel grant, ISSEP personal grants 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001
- RFBR - grants 01-02-17048, 04-02-16189, 07-02-00345, 13-02-12096 ofi_m, 15-02-04687.
- ISSEP and the Administration of St. Petersburg - personal grants 2002 and 2003
- FP "Integration of science and higher education", project A 150.
- SSTP “Current trends in condensed matter physics”, direction “Fullerenes and atomic clusters”, project 94024.
- Individual grants from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, RFBR, MNF and the Administration of St. Petersburg for young employees of the scientific group (more than 20).
A. L. Korzhenevsky (1979), B. N. Shalaev (1982), I. O. Mayer (1990), A. G. Selitsky (1990), S. A. Antonenko (1995), K. B. Varnashev (2002), D. V. Pakhnin (2006).
Work abroad:
- 1992 - Nuclear Center Karlsruhe, Germany, 6 weeks
- 2002 - Federal Polytechnic School, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1 month
- 2002 - High Normal School, Pisa, Italy, 1 month
- 2003 - High Normal School, Pisa, Italy, 1 month
- 2005 - Federal Polytechnic School, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 months.
- Reviewer of the journals Solid State Physics, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Physica B.
- Member of the independent "Corpus of Experts".
- Work in the advisory board of the editorial board of the journal "Fullerene Science and Technology" - 1997-1998.
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Physical Studies.
- Work in dissertation councils D 002.205.01 (FTI named after A.F. Ioffe) and D 212.238.08 (SPbGETU "LETI").
- "The best lecturer" - the order of the rector of LETI (according to the results of a student survey in 1987-1988).
- "Soros Professor" - MNF / ISSEP, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- "Professor-2002", "Professor-2003", "Professor-2004" - ISSEP and the Administration of St. Petersburg.
- Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg" - Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 19, 2003
- "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education" - Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, 2006
The Department of Physical Electronics appeared at the Faculty of Physics in 1963. The first leader and its actual creator was Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Johann Moiseevich Bronstein. Many current leaders of our university are his students. 4 scientific laboratories were organized at the department: emission electronics, plasma physics, physics of high-resistance semiconductors and physics of dielectrics, headed by such prominent specialists as Valery Aleksandrovich Izvozchikov, Gennady Alekseevich Bordovsky, Boris Afanasyevich Tazenkov, V.M. Goldfarb. On the basis of these laboratories, entire scientific schools have grown up, known not only in Russia, but throughout the world. Scientific developments of the staff of the department have made a huge contribution to the development of both fundamental and applied science in our country.
Much has been done in the laboratory of emission electronics created by Johann Moiseevich. With his light hand, our institute began to manufacture the most complex ultra-high-vacuum devices, which had no analogues in the world, developed and implemented unique experiments and technologies that received worldwide recognition. In the field of the theory of secondary emission phenomena, I.M. Bronshtein still remains the undisputed world authority, and the monograph by I.M. Bronstein and B.S. Freiman "Secondary Electron Emission" remains a reference book for those involved in the theory of emission properties and the development of electron beam technologies.
The main achievements of the department in the study of ferroelectric phenomena are associated with the name of the professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, who headed the department in 1978. Within the framework of the laboratory he created for the study of the physics of ferroelectrics, outstanding experimental work in this direction, which were duly appreciated by the majority of domestic and foreign scientists. At the same time, other scientific areas of the department continued to develop actively. E.V. Bursian actively contributed to the creation and development training courses, focused on the introduction of computer technology, providing them with both organizational and scientific and methodological support.
The department also launched large-scale studies of optoelectronic processes in high-resistance disordered crystalline and glassy semiconductors, conducted in the laboratory of high-resistance semiconductors under the guidance of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. Sciences, Professor Bordovsky G.A. In particular, one of the main areas of research of the laboratory - the study of the processes of transfer and accumulation of charges in a system of photoelectrically active materials of the chalcogenide glass class - is a modern developing scientific direction in solving problems of a theoretical and practical nature.
Since 1998, the head of the Department of Physical Electronics is Professor Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Samuil Davidovich Khanin. Created under his leadership new laboratory components and materials of solid-state electronics, which has teamed up with the Laboratory of Physics of Ferroelectrics. new direction scientific work was the study of electronic processes in highly disordered systems, in particular, electron- and ion-stimulated phenomena in layers of transition metal oxides, as well as metal-insulator and metal-semiconductor phase transitions in polycrystalline and amorphous transition metal oxides. The results of these studies are at the forefront of the physics of structurally disordered and highly inhomogeneous materials in terms of understanding the processes in electronic and atomic-ionic systems and their relationship.
In 2018, the Department of Physical Electronics was headed by Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. sciences, professor Alexander Vladimirovich Kolobov. A.V. Kolobov began his scientific career in 1979 at the FTI. Ioffe and the laboratory of Professor B.T. Kolomiyts after graduating from the Department of Optoelectronics of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. IN AND. Ulyanov (Lenin). IN different periods his work, he trained and worked at the University of Cambridge, high school industrial physics and chemistry of Paris, the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Montpellier. Since 1994, he has worked at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan; the last 10 years as a prime senior researcher. Scientific interests Professor A.V. Kolobov include amorphous and glassy semiconductors, phase-variable materials, optical and electronic memory based on phase-variable materials, two-dimensional semiconductors, the use of synchrotron radiation to analyze the structure of materials, and the calculation of material properties from first principles. A. V. Kolobov is the author of more than 250 scientific papers published in leading international journals, including three monographs.