Joffe Institute

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The Joffe Institute , in detail the Joffe Physics and Technical Institute ( Russian Физико-технический институт имени А.Ф.Иоффе ), in Saint Petersburg is a physics institute that is assigned to the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Main building of the Joffe Institute

It is named after its long-standing (until 1950) director Abram Fjodorowitsch Joffe and emerged from the X-ray and radiological institute founded by Joffe and others in 1918, from which the Physikalisch-Technische Institut (PTI, LFTI ) became the Joffe Institute from 1960 was called.

It focuses on solid state physics and semiconductor physics . Today it has departments in solid state physics, solid state electronics , physics of dielectrics and semiconductors, plasma, atomic and astrophysics and a center for physics of nano- heterostructures .

The scientists who worked here included George Gamow , Lew Landau , Matwei Bronstein , Pjotr ​​Kapiza , Lew Schubnikow , Jakow Frenkel , Wladimir Gribow , Shores Alfjorow (who introduced sandwich heterostructures here with Rudy Kazarinov in 1963 and laser diodes for the late 1960s Running brought), Alexander Efros , Alexei Efros , Boris Schklowski , Juri Denisjuk , Nikolai Semjonow , Evgeni Gross and Abram Isaakowitsch Alichanow . Many of the leading members of the Soviet nuclear weapons and nuclear power program also worked there for a time, for example Igor Kurchatov , Juli Chariton , Georgi Fljorow , Lev Arzimowitsch .

From 1987 to 2003 Shores Alfjorow (Nobel Prize Winner, 2000) was the director of the institute, followed by Andrei G. Sabrodski until the beginning of 2018 . After that, until the end of September, Sergei W. Lebedev served as deputy director, and Sergei V. Ivanov has been the new director since October 2018 (until July 2019 - acting, since August 2019 - official).

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Coordinates: 60 ° 0 ′ 24.6 ″  N , 30 ° 22 ′ 7.7 ″  E