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Holography Helped to Quickly Learn the Number of Particles in Volume
…ws one to quickly check the concentration, distribution and transparence of particles in a media sample. Tatiana Vovk Tatiana Vovk, researcher at Department of Photonics and Optical Information Technologies of ITMO University comments: “There are many ways to visualize particles in suspension or aerosol, as well as methods to process these images. But th…
20.04.2017
Two-in-One: Why Does One Need to Combine Advantages of Electronic and Probe Microscopes?
…ace and monitor the process using an e-beam at the same time. It means that the development by researchers form NT-Spb is appropriate for solving tasks in material science, photonics, biology, solid-state physics and other fields. The main feature of the module is that it is possible to slightly modify this to upgrade both electronic and optical microscopes. The s…
19.04.2017
Navigating the ITMO Application Process
…ntrol” school. Graduates end up working in companies like “Kaspersky Lab”, General Motors, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and many others. Specialists in the field of optics and photonics study in the “Photonics” major, and in 2017 a new program on “Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics” was opened in the Faculty of…
17.04.2017
ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects
…ndra Toropova presented a project on confectioneries that make use of optical technologies. The graduate decided to combine her hobby with her research field - marzipan and photonics, and then started experimenting on using holographic technologies for caramel and gelatin. One can use holographic technologies to get bright and complex images without using coloring ag…
17.04.2017
Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience
… all my questions and helped me with advice. What was most difficult about student life in Russia, and what came as a pleasant surprise? Charles-Henri: At first, I was astonished by the dorms, yet I'm used to them now. The living conditions are minimalistic, but that depends on what one needs. Also, I really miss cheese. Yet, I learned that St. Petersburg is an…
13.04.2017
"Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green
…eparate waste collection - for instance, in Saint Petersburg State University it exists for several years already, all of the universities units collect wastepaper, comments Antonina Evteshina, representative of the university's Ecology Unit. What's more, the students regularly participate in voluntary work in the university's botanical garden, and each can even beco…
12.04.2017
Trapping Light: Anisotropic Structures Can Increase Optical Device's Efficiency
…nanotechnology, which contributed to the rapid development of a new field at the confluence of optics and solid-state physics, which researches artificial materials such as photonic crystals and metamaterials. The properties of these materials can be adjusted so as to get the desired effects. Meanwhile, many concepts of quantum mechanics are adapted for pho
11.04.2017
A Specialist in Photonics Doing IT: ITMO's Master's Student Wins the Hackathon in Singapore
…arch (A*STAR) as part of the Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) international short-term program. At that time, I was working on a project on dielectric nanophotonics, as well as learned to work with high-technology equipment – for example, the near-field microscope by the Nanonics Company. This was a great opportunity to work with leading foreign spe…
07.04.2017
ITMO Fellowship Stories: 'Crystal Is the Heart of Lasers'
…ogical insulators. In 2006, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the graphene discovery. These materials and other 2D nanostructures are making a revolution in modern photonics. We don’t want to fall behind! Despite the fact that its thickness is about one atom, graphene makes it possible to generate ultrashort pulses. What research are you doing at ITMO? …
06.04.2017
Beloved City, United We Stand
…e tea and lots of cat hugs. Strangers offered strangers a place to stay. Strangers offered strangers cellphones, chocolate bars, and kind words. “If you can’t ‘make it home tonight, come over. It’s better together.” And then a phone number and address... Today, candles are burning amid the heaps of flowers by the metro station where the tragedy happened. People…
06.04.2017