Master's program
Modern nanophotonics plays an important role in the modern world, from fundamental science to applications in medicine and information technology. The specialization "Nanophotonics" of the Master's program "Advanced Quantum and Nanophotonic Systems" is the only one in Russia and one of the few programs in the world combining education in nanophotonics and metamaterials. In this specialization, students not only gain knowledge and skills in project work, but also actively participate in advanced international research.
Being deeply involved in scientific work during their education, students not only use the acquired academic knowledge, but also obtain real work experience in cutting-edge areas of science. Our students engage in international projects, work with high-tech equipment, publish articles in top-rated journals indexed in WoS and Scopus, speak at Russian and international conferences and seminars, and organize international scientific schools and workshops. At the Faculty, open scientific seminars are held weekly, featuring invited Russian and foreign scientists: they are dedicated to latest problems in theoretical physics, optics and radiophysics.
Dr. Eros Mariani, Professor at University of Exeter
Dr. Andrey Evlyukhin, PhD, Senior Researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Dr. Alexey Scherbakov, PhD, Researcher at TU Dortmund, Senior researcher at Ferroics Physics Laboratory of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
This intensive course is a part of the main course Experimental Methods of Nanophotonics (lecturer Anton Samusev) and gives a short review of selected experimental methods of phonon physics. This area of solid state physics is focused on high-frequency lattice vibrations: their spectra, excitation, propagation, detection, coherent and thermal effects, interaction with other elementary excitations and their role in various transition processes. This area includes a wide range of experimental techniques: from basic measurements of thermal conductivity to time-resolved X-ray images. Within this intensive course, a limited number of these methods are explored, namely, ultrafast optical methods, which allow observing the dynamics of coherent phonons and related processes on a nanoscale level in time domain.
Most graduates of the program continue their career, both in the scientific groups of the Department of Physics and Engineering and in other research centers of Europe, Russia, Australia and USA. The first students of this program have defended their PhD theses in 2020.
Metal-dielectric nanosponges for generation of broadband emission
Theory of two-photon states in systems with dissipative and spatially modulated nonlinearity
Optical heating and local thermometry with resonant silicon nanoparticles
We offer opportunities and support students to undertake internships in the leading research groups of Europe, USA and Australia. Students do internships in partner universities: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Aix-Marseille University, University of Iceland, University of Texas at Dallas, Australian National University, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Tel Aviv University.
studying the work of plasmonic nanostructures
Three-month internship at Fresnel Institute, Aix-Marseille University, in 2020
Two-month internship at Australian National University (ANU) in 2018
numerical study of near-field effects in dimers, trimers, quadrimers and metasurfaces composed of high-index dielectric particles
Students of the Faculty of Physics can go on an exchange to study at a foreign university with which the faculty and the University have established cooperation. For more detailed information, advice and assistance on exchange programs, please contact Daria Zamotina.
Examples of universities where our students study:
- University of Iceland, Iceland
- Radboud University, the Netherlands - Erasmus+ scholarship program available
- University of Lorraine, France - Erasmus+ scholarship program available
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