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spectroscopy in application to chemical and structural characterization of substances
and materials.
The Structural Chemistry Department under Professor I. N. Masalov, D. PM. S.,
since 1959 has four laboratories in it:
1) the Physical Methods of Investigation of Chemical Bonding Nature
Laboratory;
2) the Optical Methods of Investigation Laboratory;
3) the Radiospectroscopy Laboratory;
4) and the Crystallochemistry Laboratory.
The Chemistry of Materials for Microelectronics Department under
Academician F. A. Kuznetsov, D. Chem. S., since 1958 is comprised of 10
laboratories:
1) the Epitaxial Layers Laboratory;
2) the Dielectric Layers Laboratory;
3) the Physical Properties of Semiconductors and Dielectrics Laboratory;
4) the Synthesis and Growth of Single Crystals of Rare Earth Compounds
Laboratory;
5) the Thermodynamics of Inorganic Materials Laboratory;
6) the Purity Control of Semiconductor Materials Laboratory;
7) the Modeling of Physico-chemical Processes Laboratory;
8) the Group of New Technological Processes for Microelectronics
Laboratory;
9) the Group of High Purification of Metals;
10) and, the Group of Vacuum Photosensitive Resistors.
Scientists in these laboratories research material design, high pure substances (their
preparation and analysis); material preparation methods of single crystals, films,
multi-layer structures, high temperature superconductors; structural, chemical and
physical characterization of materials and solid state structures, and development of
new technological and diagnostic equipment.
The Chemical Thermodynamics Department under Professor I. E. Paukov, D.
Chem. S., since 1968 has three laboratories:
1) the Thermodynamic Investigations Laboratory;
2) the Physics of Low Temperatures Laboratory;
3) the Statistical Thermodynamics of Condensed Phases Laboratory.
Research includes statistic thermodynamics of phase transitions and interactions of
chemical compounds of different types; study of critical phenomena; experimental
techniques of low temperature calorimetry, solution calorimetry, measurements of
heat capacities, vapor pressures, heterogeneous equilibria, etc; systematic
experimental investigation of thermodynamic parameters of inorganic substances,
systems and processes; thermodynamic modeling, and evaluation and estimation of
thermodynamic parameters, and the building of thermodynamic properties data
bases.
The Information and Computer Center in Akademgorodok is comprised of a
support department with a design bureau and workshops.
Some of the outstanding scientists who research in the institute include: Ye. B. Amitin, D.
PM. S., born in 1932, Graduated from Kharkov State University in 1955 and
joined the institute in 1968--interested in solid state physics; V. R. Belosludov, D.
PM. S. born in 1942, Novosibirsk State University, 1967, and joined the institute
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