Research
A brighter future with perovskites
Scientists at ITMO and their Italian colleagues from University of Tor Vergata may hold the key to creating the next generation of high-performance solar cells. Despite being a famously promising material, perovskites present several challenges when it comes to their use as semiconductors. The researchers, however, found a solution – and have already produced several lab prototypes that blow regular solar cells out of the water.
And further in perovskite-related news, another research team from ITMO has made strides in the field of laser technology. Their approach uses perovskite metasurfaces to generate tight laser beams with a lesser energy cost. Potential applications include not only optical computing, but also medical diagnostics, manufacturing, and even astronomy – among others.
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A medical game-changer
A student of ITMO’s Public Health Sciences program, Lyubov Malyugina has great plans: having worked as a cardiologist for 10+ years, she now intends to revolutionize the medical field – and save lives – with a self-developed recommendation system. She recently sat down with ITMO.NEWS to provide some insights into the ambitious project.
University
BioArt for beginners and pros
Since not too long ago, ITMO has been home to Russia’s first and only laboratory dedicated entirely to biotechnological art – a movement that combines radically different fields to explore the relationship between humans, nature, and machines. Here, everyone from students to experienced pros creates groundbreaking work for the 21st century. Their projects have already made a splash in the art world, but the authors-slash-researchers don’t intend to stop there.
In the realm of photonics
Photonics has long remained one of ITMO’s founding stones – now even more so with the establishment of the Research and Educational Center for Photonics and Optoinformatics. ITMO.NEWS paid a visit to the new department to explore its origins and lay out all the opportunities available to students and researchers.
