Total staff 143,
including 2 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
20 Doctors of Science and 46 Candidates of Science

In 1934, Academician S.I. Vavilov suggested to organize the Laboratory of Dielectric Physics under the guidance of B.M. Vul at the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Science. Later, the laboratory was transformed into the Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics, based on which the Division of Solid State Physics was formed by the 1990s. The staff of the laboratory (and later of the division) significantly contrituted to the development of semiconductor lasers, junction diodes and transistors, solar batteries, tunable far-infrared lasers based on narrow-zone semiconductors, as well as other semiconductor instruments and devices. They revealed and investigated the segnetoelectric properties of barium titanate, condensation of excitons into electron-hole fluid, laser generation of the submillimeter electromagnetic emission by hot charge carriers in germanium and other effects. For scientific achievements, the staff of the division were awarded with Lenin and State Prizes.

Major directions of research:

• Theoretical and experimental studies of electron states in semiconductors and nanostructures of various dimensions; effect of electromagnetic field on electron states
  
  
• Optical and transport properties of heterosystems – quantum wells, fibres and points; impurities and defecs in quantum-dimensional structures
  
  
• Interparticle interactions in quasi-twodimensional electron systems of high density
  
  
• Quantum Hall effect, quantum phase transitions
  
  
• Nonequilibrium phenomena in decreased-dimension systems, nonequilibrium phonons, kinetics of fast processes
  
  
• Effects of dimensional quantization in metal and amorphous semiconductor films
  
  
• Quantum devices, nanoelectronics, quantum-computer elements
  
  
• Semiconductor heterostructure lasers
  
  
• Superconductivity in multilayer dielectric–superconductor structures
  
  
• Physical phenomena in ion-modified diamond and heterostructures on its basis
  
  
• The physics of strongly localized defects and impurities (including d and f elements) in diamond-like semiconductors and low-dimension structures on their basis
  
  
• The nature of phase transitions and the mechanism of superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors
  
  
• Optical and tunnel studies of high-temperature superconductors
  
  
• Mixed state and dynamics of vortex lattices in superconductors