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• Bright Ideas: ITMO Researchers’ Dynamic Nanostructure Achieves 35x Light Amplification

  The staff of ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics have developed a dynamic nanostructure that changes its optical properties in response to external stimuli. At its core is a polymer that expands and contracts based on its temperature. The researchers have shown that nanostructures containing silicon nanoparticles can amplify light seven-fold – and the number blows up to 35 when the material is combined with gold. What’s more, the polymer can change its form an unlimited amount of times. Its potential uses include the development of automated heat sensors and various other smart devices.

  13.10.2022

• Svetoskop Museum of Fascinating Physics Launches in Kronstadt With ITMO Support

  How to fly using optical illusions, why white clothes glow bright under UV light, and how to put planes in the air with the energy of light – these and other things are explained at the Svetoskop Museum of Fascinating Physics, which has just opened in a new public space in the town of Kronstadt near St. Petersburg. Supported by ITMO, the museum helps its guests not only experience, but also to get to the bottom of various optical and mechanical phenomena – and even stage their own experiments.

  26.07.2022

• Devices for Well-Being and Safety: ITMO’s Young Researchers Participate in Laser Optics International Conference

  The International Conference Laser Optics is held in St. Petersburg biannually. It welcomes researchers in the fields of physics, optics, and photonics, who discuss topical issues and present their achievements. Read on to discover what young scientists from ITMO demonstrated at the event and how their inventions will change lives.

  01.07.2022

• ITMO Scientists Find a Way to Reconfigure Topological States of Light

  A research team from ITMO University, Australian National University, and Jilin University has provided experimental proof of the conjecture that topological states of light can be produced not only by influencing the crystal lattice geometry but also by changing the shape of the meta-atoms and their mutual orientation. Moreover, the new approach helps change the position and the degree of light localization in real time.

  22.06.2022

• Traveling for Research and Missing the Sun: PhD Student Adria Canos Valero on His Experience in Russia

  A PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, Adria Canos Valero was born and raised in Spain. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where he started his international academic career. In the span of six years, Adria worked in France, Switzerland, and Moscow, did research at CERN, and went from studying chemical engineering to optics and metamaterials. How is the life of a researcher in Russia different from that in Europe? Read on to find out. 

  15.02.2022

• ITMO Scientists’ Research Among the Year’s Top 30 Studies According to Optics & Photonics News

  Every year, the December issue of Optics & Photonics News includes a list of the year’s 30 most impactful studies in the field of optics and photonics. This year, it features research by scientists from ITMO University who have succeeded in demonstrating record-breaking efficiency in light coupling at large incidence angles. ITMO.NEWS spoke to Oleh Yermakov, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at the university’s Faculty of Physics, to find out how the team plans to develop their research in the future.

  22.11.2021

• ITMO Rated Russia’s Best University in Optics by U.S. News & World Report

  The U.S. News & World Report media company has published its annual global and subject-specific rankings of the world’s universities. ITMO University was included in the top-10 list of Russian universities and debuted in first place among Russian universities in the Best Global Universities for Optics ranking.

  26.10.2021

• Scientists Make Quantum Germanium “Islands” Glow With Hundredfold Intensity

  A team of Russian scientists including researchers from ITMO University, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, and Lomonosov Moscow State University succeeded in enhancing the luminance of quantum dots on a silicon substrate. The methods used by the scientists can help create next generation microchips that will receive and transfer information from a computer to a fiber-optic network a lot faster. The article was published in Laser & Photonics Review.

  09.06.2021

• Brain as a Hologram: Exploring Vision at ITMO’s Museum of Optics

  Interdisciplinarity is all the rage right now, and it’s no longer chic to stay within the narrow boundaries of your own subject. By now, you would have definitely heard about infochemistry or bioinformatics, but what about combining physics and neurophysiology? In this article, we will tell you how these subjects converge at ITMO’s Museum of Optics that creates a unique environment for new insights into vision and mind. 

  17.11.2020

• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  ITMO professor Sergei Stafeev recently delivered a lecture in which he spoke about how Greek philosophers succeeded in discovering many of the laws of optics, how these discoveries were reflected in art, and what’s similar about the story of Medusa and one of the Harry Potter books. ITMO.NEWS put down the main ideas.

  02.11.2020