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The Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISSP) was
founded in the 60s in Chernogolovka which is located 50 kilometers to the east of
Moscow. For the last 30 years the ISSP has become one of the most outstanding
Russian Institute and gained immense prestige in the world scientific communuty.
The personnel of the Institute made very important and, in some cases, decisive
contributions to many branches of physics of solids and material science and
engineering, such as low-temperature metal physics of dislocations, spectroscopy
of exciton states, phase transformations under high pressures, spectroscopy and
electron transport in 2D-systems, helium physics, surface, physics, structure and
technology of amorphous alloys, structures and properties of grain boundaries,
high-purity metallic single crystals and goods produced of them fibrous composites
which a metallic matrix, crystals of various shapes and so on. For the last few
years fortunate has been wide involvement of our scientists in the research of the
high-temperature superconductivity of different materials including metallic
cuprates, fullerenes and organic metals.
LABORATORIES OF THE INSTITUTE
Laboratory of Physical-Chemical Bases of Crystallization
Head of laboratory: Dr. N. N. Kolesnikov.
The scope of the Laboratory works includes two main aspects:
the melt growth of single crystals of inorganic compounds:
chalcogenides, halides, complex superconducting cuprates.
a physical-chemical study of these compounds and systems where they
originate of in order to facilitate their single crystal growth, or to
achieve some desirable properties of these crystals.
Fields of research:
1. Crystal growth of zinc and cadmium chalcogenides
from the melt for manufacturing transmitting, outletting and focusing
optics of IR-devices, e.g. CO2 -lasers.
2. Single crystal growth of these compounds for manufacturing solid-state
elements of devices for modifying or modulating IR-beams, e.g.
polarizers, electro-optical and mechanical modulators, etc.
3. Single crystal growth of these compounds for manufacturing seeds or
substrates for growth of films and bulk crystals from the vapor phase.
4. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of zinc and cadmium chalcogenides.
5. Single crystal growth of some Tl-based HTSC-phases in the system
Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O. The single crystals have sizes up to 3x2x0.2 mm and can
be used for various optical, structural and magnetic measurements.
6. Single crystal growth of lead fluoride for various investigations.
7. Single crystal growth of alkali halides, including mixed crystals, for
IR-optics and different research purposes.
8. Physical-chemical study of systems with above mentioned compounds,
especially investigation of T-x diagrams.
9. Experimental investigations of some properties of melts: volume effects
of crystallization, surface tension, viscosity.
Experimental methods:
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