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The Department of Physics of Condensed Matter
The Department of Physics of Condensed Matter was created in 2010 by the decision of the Academic Council of the St Petersburg Academic University and was aimed at training high quality professionals in modern physics of amorphous and crystal matters including semiconductors, dielectrics and metals. The department provides education in the experimental and theoretical physics of condensed matter. The faculty and academic staff includes highly skilled physicists-theorists and experimenters and the majority of them is well-known in the scientific world.Head of the department is Academician Robert A. Suris.
Main Programs of the Department:
- Physics of Condensed Matter
- Solid-State Physics
- Semiconductor Physics
The main task of the department is to give students a consistent understanding of the main branches of the condensed matter physics and to show them how they are interconnected, to present them methods of theoretical and pilot research of the condensed matter and to teach them how to use these methods in solving various scientific problems of physics. It is research work that helps students learn how to apply these methods in finding solutions to specific problems.
The material base of human civilization is the use of condensed matters: crystals, amorphous bodies and liquids. The physics of condensed matter is the scientific basis of nanoelectronics, modern materials science and nanotechnologies in general.
The department is intended to prepare specialists (Masters and PhDs) with a wide range of knowledge in the area of physics of condensed matter, its diagnostics in nanometre scale range and in the field of theoretical analysis and computer modelling of its characteristics and processes. Training goes along with conducting researches in laboratories of the Ioffe Institute, the Academic University and other research institutes. All professors actively conduct researches within the Russian and international projects and grants.
The department offers the following Master programs:
- 510403 - Physics of Condensed Matter
- 550708 - Physics of Semiconductors and Dielectrics
and one graduate program:
The use of unique machinery and technologies of the academic laboratories in educational process creates favorable conditions for mastering cotemporary research methods and technologies. Students are assigned to research groups, so they can themselves try out methods of creating various materials and structures and then research and diagnose them by means of electron and tunnel microscopy, x-ray and electron probe analysis, optical spectroscopy and theoretical analysis and modelling.