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Russian Scientists Develop Perovskite Metasurfaces for Smart Glass
Perovskite thin films will make it possible to turn normal glass into smart surfaces that can display information in AR devices and convert solar energy into electricity. The research of the group headed by ITMO scientists has been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
10.11.2020
University College Dublin's Prof. John T. Sheridan on Holography, Career, and Irish Culture
This November, one of the top experts in the world of photonics will conduct a series of open lectures for ITMO students. ITMO.NEWS spoke with Professor John T. Sheridan about the future of holography, academic networking, and why he believes it’s better to think it over ten times before becoming a professor.
09.11.2020
Picture of the Week: Rainbow Shine in Polymeric Materials
This effect can be used to control the internal stress on surfaces of transparent objects, which is required to monitor quality control of products and their technical state.
09.11.2020
ITMO University Researchers Predict New Quantum Phase of Matter in Chains of Oscillating Atoms
The results of this research can be used to control the properties of light and matter and to create quantum memory.
05.11.2020
ITMO Researchers Discover Material With Refractive Index Higher Than in Silicon
This will potentially allow them to create more compact and efficient elements for lasers, sensors, and optical chips. Moreover, it proves the hypothesis that ITMO physicists had about the connection between a material’s refractive index and its electronic features. The research has been published in Nanophotonics.
03.11.2020
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
Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg on the Universe’s Expansion and Key Challenges of Modern Physics
How does particle physics help us explore space? What great challenges are scientists still facing? And what are they going to do next? Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and science popularizer, addressed all these issues at the NAUKA 0+ Festival.
19.10.2020
You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup
Kirill Rivkin went to ITMO in the ‘90s. Since then, he has tried his hand at DataArt, got a PhD in theoretical physics in the USA, became a hard drive engineer at Seagate Technology, created a startup that develops processors, and published five books on the history of weapons.
05.10.2020
Smart Cane and Quantum Physics In Water Drops: Projects by ITMO Students at Youth Awards in Science and Innovations Finals
The event for school and university students is conducted annually by National University of Science and Technology MISiS with support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. This year, the contest took place in an online format: the participants had to record short video presentations of their projects.
01.10.2020
Scientists Manage to Capture Light in a Polymeric Quasicrystal
In the future, the use of quasicrystals may open up new possibilities for laser and sensor design. This paper was published in the Advanced Optical Materials journal.
28.09.2020