Yuri Wassiljewitsch Kopayew

Yuri Wassiljewitsch Kopajew (2010 in his lecture at MIET)

Yuri Wassiljewitsch Kopajew ( Russian Юрий Васильевич Копаев ; * October 21, 1937 in Moscow ; † December 24, 2012 there ) was a Russian physicist and university professor .

Life

Kopajew studied at the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI) with a degree in 1962. He then was an aspirant at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI) with Leonid Weniaminowitsch Keldysch . Together with Keldysh he developed 1964, the theory of the exciton - insulator (Keldysh-Kopajew model) for the metal semiconductors phase transition. After the completion of postgraduate study in 1964 and defending his candidate dissertation he worked in Zelenograd in the Research Institute of Molecular Electronics (now Mikron AG ).

In 1970 Kopayev moved to the theoretical department of the Moscow Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). In 1975 he received his doctorate in physical and mathematical sciences after defending his doctoral thesis . In 1992 he became head of the semiconductor physics laboratory in the solid state physics department of FIAN. In 1995 he became director of the solid state physics department at FIAN.

Kopajew's main research interests were the equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions in semiconductors and superconductors and nanoelectronics . He investigated the possibilities for increasing the superconductor transition temperature.

In addition to his research activities, he taught as a professor at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET) since 1975 . He initially headed the chair for physical technology and integrated circuits and, from 1999, the chair for quantum physics and nanoelectronics. In 1990 he was elected a corresponding member and in 2008 a full member of the AN-SSSR. He was chairman of the board of directors of the FIAN-MIET science center. At the RAN Presidium, he headed the Condensed Matter Physics Section and was a member of the Nanotechnology Commission . He was co-editor of the journal for experimental and theoretical physics . He was the author or co-author of many publications.

Kopayev died in a car accident in Moscow and was buried in the Troyekurovo cemetery.

Honors, prizes

• State Prize of the USSR (1982, 1988)
• Order of Honor (1998)
• Prize of the President of the Russian Federation (2003)
• Lebedev Gold Medal of the RAN (2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: КОПА́ЕВ Юрий Васильевич (accessed March 28, 2019).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} RENT: 24 декабря в автокатастрофе трагически погиб действительный член РАН, д.ф.-м.н., проф.ссор проф.ссор Копаев (accessed March 28, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Нина Чернега: Когда они уходят от нас (accessed March 28, 2019).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} RAN: Копаев Юрий Васильевич (accessed on March 28, 2019).
5. ↑ LV Keldysh, Yu. V. Kopaev: Possible instability of the semimetallic state toward Coulomb interaction . In: Soviet Physics - Solid State . tape 6 , 1965, pp. 2219-2224 .
6. ↑ Math-Net.Ru: Kopaev Yurii Vasil'evich (accessed March 28, 2019).
7. ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 14.10.1998 г. № 1250 (accessed March 28, 2019).