Ioffe Institute

The Joffe Institute, detailed Physical Technical Institute Joffe (Russian Физико - технический институт имени А.Ф.Иоффе ), in Saint Petersburg is a physics institute, which is associated with the Russian Academy of Sciences.

It is named director Abram Fedorovich Joffe by his long-time (up to 1950) and was embodied in the 1918 by Joffe and others founded X-Ray and Radiological Institute, from which the Physical Technical Institute (PTI, LFTI ) was that from 1960 Joffe Institute was called.

It has its focus in the solid state physics and semiconductor physics. Today, it has departments in solid-state physics, solid state electronics, physics of dielectrics and semiconductors, plasma atomic physics and astrophysics, and a center for physics of nano- heterostructures.

Among the scientists who worked here were George Gamow, Lev Landau, Matvei Bronstein, Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Shubnikov, Yakov Frenkel, Vladimir Gribow, Zhores Alferov ( in 1963 with Rudy Kazarinov here introduced sandwich heterostructures and the late 1960s, laser diodes for Running brought ), Alexander Efros, Alexei Efros and Shklovsky, Boris, Yuri Denisjuk, Nikolai Semyonov, Evgeni Gross, Abram Isaakowitsch Alichanow. Also, many of the leading members of the Soviet nuclear weapons and nuclear power program worked there temporarily, for example, Igor Kurchatov, July Chariton, Georgi Fljorow, Lew Arzimowitsch.

Currently (2012 ) is Andrei G. Zabrodskii the Institute Director.