Department of Solid State Physics

Head of the Department – Professor Alexander A. PTASHCHENKO

SPECIALIZATION

Students graduate with certificates of bachelor’s or master’s degree in Solid state physics and solid-state electronics.

Post-graduate students specialize in Solid state physics.

ACADEMIC STAFF

Alexander A. PTASHCHENKO – D.Sc. professor, head of the department.

Boris A. ALTOIZ – D.Sc. professor.

Natalia V. MASLEEVA – PhD, associate professor, the department deputy head.

Nina G. YEVTUSHENKO – PhD, associate professor.

Victor I. SOLOSHENKO – PhD, associate professor.

Lyudmila N. ZALJUBINSKY– PhD, associate professor, person in charge of the department branch «Management in science and high technologies».

Vadim L. MANAKIN – senior lecturer.

Sergey A. STUKALOV – senior lecturer.

GENERAL AND SPECIAL COURSES

General Courses

1. Solid-state physics.
2. General physics.
3. Nonlinear optics and quantum electronics.
4. Physical fundamentals of materials science.
5. Physics of disordered systems.
6. On some problems in modern physics.
7. Recent advances in modern physics.
8. Fundamentals of management.
9. Fundamentals of marketing.
10. Microeconomics.
11. Macroeconomics.

Special Courses

1. Electrophysical properties of semiconductors.
2. Physical foundations of optoelectronics.
3. Quantum theory of solids.
4. Materials science of semiconductors and dielectrics.
5. Quantum electronics and optoelectronics.
6. Physics of semiconductor devices.
7. Physical foundations of functional microelectronics.
8. Physics of liquid crystals.
9. Fundamentals of micro- and nanotechnology.
10. Physics of computer technology.
11. Database management systems.

Master’s Special Courses

1. Latest problems of modern solid-state physics and solid-state electronics.
2. Practical workshop on solid state physics.

Special lab practicals

1. Labs on liquid crystals.
2. Labs on methods of structural analysis of semiconductors.
3. Labs on investigation of the bulk and surface electrophysical properties of semiconductors and planar semiconductor structures.
4. Labs on optoelectronics.
5. Labs on quantum electronics.
6. Labs on physics of semiconductor devices.
7. Labs on basic physics in functional microelectronics.

R & D in the department

Physics of electronic, ionic, molecular and optical processes in semiconductor optoelectronic and microelectronic devices.  Physics of solids – gas and solids – fluid interfaces. 

Professor A.A. Ptashchenko with a group of researchers is developing a phenomenological theory of the currents related to tunnel recombination on dislocations and surface levels in p‑n junctions. A model of isotypic heterostructures for high-performance light sources has been developed. Mechanisms of degradation of p-n, p-i-n, and n-i-n semiconductor structures have been established.

The non-radiative recombination processes in semiconductors are under intensive investigation.  Along with experiments a two-dimensional computer simulation of non-equilibrium processes in layered semiconductor structures is carried out.

Investigation of surface phenomena at the interphase solid – liquid boundaries. The leader of the research group, professor B.A. Altoiz, is the co-author of Discovery of the USSR № 388 „A phenomenon of formation of a homogeneous liquid-crystal boundary phase in nonmesogen fluid”. Nowadays these boundary phases are under intensive experimental and theoretical study, with the results having both fundamental and practical significance (such as modelling of behaviour of complicated disperse systems, flotation, etc.).

X-ray diffractometric investigation of structural features and physical properties of the light‑emitting heterostructures obtained by laser processing of III–V compounds. The leader of the research group is associate professor N.G. Evtushenko.

teaching and learning FACILITIES

All general and special courses, as well as laboratory practical, are supported by various manuals for students and by teachers’ resource materials. Prepared by the teaching staff of the department these regularly updated course-manuals and handouts are available to the students and lecturers either in electronic versions or as published books. Numerous original learning materials have been developed for the students of “Management in science” branch of the department. Several of the manuals are listed below:

Сборник разноуровневых задач для государственной итоговой аттестации по физике, Манакин В.Л., Гельфгат И.М., Колебошин В.Я., Любченко М.Г., 230 стр. Рекомендовано Министерством образования Украины как пособие для преподавателей и выпускников школ, 4-е переиздание, 2007 г.

А.А. Птащенко «Основы нелинейной физики», 107 с. - Одесса, Астропринт, 2001.

А.А. Птащенко - Методические пособия к курсам лекций для студентов III-V курсов, подготовленные в электронном варианте: «Лазерное охлаждение атомов», 33 стр.; «Квантовая электроника» (phys.onu.edu.ua) 228 стр.; «Управляемый термоядерный синтез».

Евтушенко Н.Г., Стукалов С.А.  Учебное пособие для студентов ІІІ курса университета «Рентгенографический анализ кристаллических веществ» (Общий рентгеновский практикум по курсу «Физика твердого тела»)", 120 стр.

Л.Н. Залюбинская «Методическое пособие по подготовке курсовых работ» для студентов специализации менеджмент науки и наукоемких технологий (электронный вариант).

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

1. Ptashchenko O. O., Artemenko O. S., Dmytruk M. L., Masleyeva N. V., Ptashchenko F. O. Effect of ammonia vapors on the surface morphology and surface current in p-n junctions on GaP. // Photoelectronics. - 2005. - No. 14. - P. 97 - 100.
2. Птащенко О. О., Артеменко  О. С., Птащенко Ф. О. Вплив парів аміаку на поверхневий струм в p-n переходах на основі напівпровідників А³В⁵// Журнал фізичних досліджень. -  2003. - Т. 7, №4. - С. 419 - 425.
3. Кокшарова Т. В., Птащенко А. А., Маслеева Н. В., Фельдман С. В., Пастернак Н. Н., Стукалов С. А. Проводимость в твердом состоянии и каталитическая активность гексацианоферрат (ІІ)-тиосемикарбазидніх комплексов 3d-металлов // Теоретическая и экспериментальная химия .- 2002.- Т. 38, №4. - С. 257 - 261.
4. Алтоиз Б.А., Т.В.Народицкая. Модель Изинга жидкокристалличности немезогена в пристенном слое и объеме // Коллоидный журнал. - 2004. - Т.66. - №3. - С.1-6.
5. B.A.Altoiz, T.V.Naroditskaja, J.M.Popovsky. Influence of magnetic field on the molecular orientation on Epitropic mesophase of nitrobenzene //Journal Colloid and Interface Science. - 2003. - 104. - P.239-243.
6. Алтоиз Б.А. Асланов С.К. Моделирование структурированного приповерхностного слоя в динамике вязкой жидкости // Доповіді національної академії наук України. - Т.9. - 2003. - С.76-79.
7. Yevtushenko N.G., Stukalov S.A. Laser-Stimulated Doping Effect on Gallium Phosphide Structure and Properties.//Functional materials V. 10., N.2-2003 pp. 346 - 349.
8. Yevtushenko, Stukalov S.A., Rotner S.M. Surface Modification of Gallium Phosphide stimulated by High-Power Pulsed Laser Irradiation // Photoelectronics, 2003.- pp. 183 - 186.
9. S.N.Fedosov, A.E.Sergeeva, V.I.Soloshenko, T.A.Revenyuk  Application of corona discharge for poling ferroelectric polymers // Вісник ОНУ, Одеса 2006.
10. V.I.Soloshenko, S.A.Gevelyuk, I.K.Doycho, V.T.Mak, V.P.Lelechenko, J.R.Zherditskaja Substrate crystallographic orientation effect on photoluminescent properties of porous silicon//Photoelectronics. - 2005. - V. 14. - pp.73-76.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The department branch «Management in science and high technologies» offers to students an opportunity to become not only qualified physicists but the competent managers as well. The branch syllabus supported by good schooling of physicists in fundamental sciences allows the graduates of the branch to be more successful managers than graduates of economics colleges. Being well educated, flexible and broad-minded they are more adaptable. All of them readily integrate themselves into new business fields, demonstrate lateral thinking, are innovative and good at making executive decisions of any level.

Students of the branch take a set of courses in economics and `management; they work on term projects and prepare term papers during the course. Taking the course they undergo practical training at various businesses and enterprises receiving field experience in every aspect of their future job. In addition to diploma in physics the graduates get the appropriate certificate from the management branch.