Research areas:

• physics of ferroelectricity and ferroelectric phase transitions
• physics of magnetism, domain walls, spin waves
• critical phenomena in magnetic, superconducting and disordered systems
• optics of solid state, non-linear magneto-optics, electro-magnetooptics, thermo-optics and electro-optics
• solid-state acoustics
• electronics of wide-bandgap semiconductors with high-bonding energy
• diffusion phenomena in semiconductors and defect-structure formation
• kinetic phenomena in solids at low temperatures in strong magnetic fields under high pressures
• critical states in Josephson arrays and superconducting nanosystems
• thermal properties of solids
• physics of thermoelectrics
• new methods of thermoelectric energy conversion
• diffraction methods for studies of real crystals
• neutron-based research in solids
• physics of anisotropic materials
• nanostructures based on 3D-porous matrices and low-dimensional nanocluster systems
• physics of rare-earth semiconductors
• mechanical and pressure sensors based on rare-earth materials
• theory of semiconductors and insulators and complex information systems

  Division Officers
  

  Director: Robert V. Parfen`ev
  
  Deputy Director: Yurii A. Kumzerov
  
  Executive Secretary: Pavel A. Markovin

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