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DEPARTMENT OF CONDENSED MATTER
PHYSICS

Real Crystal Physics

Researches

The research methods

The researches of real crystals, mainly (experiments), are of fundamental character. A majority of these researches belongs to the sphere of solid-state radiation physics. At different stages of researches there are cases when the obtained results show the possibility of their practical application and thus, naturally, it becomes necessary to consider the problems from the viewpoint of materials science (stabilization of laser color centers, dosimetric properties of oxides for detection of fast neutrons, metals and alloys with shape memory, hydrogenation, nanoparticles, etc.).

The researches in nuclear physics are of special interest, particularly, the research of the interaction between the polarized neutrons and polarized nuclei. The nuclear precession of neutrons (nuclear pseudo-magnetism) is studied. The researches are carried out in collaboration with I.Frank Neutron Physics Laboratory at the International Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia). The experimental equipment developed by us was given just to this Institute where a multifunctional equipment “Kolkhida” was created on its basis.

Subject-matter:

  1. The complex study of optical-mechanical properties of ionic crystals (alkali halogens, alkali-earth oxides) after the individual or combined action of external fields.

  2. The properties of thermoelastic martensite transformations of alloys (acoustic spectrometry and calorimetry.

  3. Acoustic spectrometry of structural transformations and dynamics of Abrikosov vortices in high-temperature superconductors.

  4. Structural transformations and relaxation phenomena in metal glasses (acoustic spectrometry).

  5. Thermodynamic properties of real crystals: the change of phonon spectrum as a result of different defects (the spectrum of resonance and matrix vibrations).

  6. Calorimetry of ceramic high-temperature superconductors.

  7. Calorimetry of thermodynamic properties of hydrogen-contained metals and alloys in wide temperature range.

  8. Calorimetry of thermodynamic properties of biological objects (collagen).

  9. Nanoparticles (obtaining; research of activation phenomena).

  10. Nuclear precession of neutrons – nuclear pseudomagnetism.

  11. Determination of magnetic structures in single crystals by polarized neutrons.

  12. Interaction of flat electromagnetic wave with thermal polarized neutron flux.

  13. Improvement of photo-catalytic properties of TiO2 nanopowders used in the reaction of photocatalysis (dissociation of water into hydrogen and oxygen by using solar energy) for application of hydrogen in energetics.