Prof. I.V. Svechkarev was the Head of the Department from 1966 till 2008.
             The following scientists have been educated and received
             their doctor degrees in the department: A. S. Panfilov, V. B. Pluzhnikov,
V. V. Zhukov, V. I. Poltoratskiy, S. A. Vorontsov, Yu. P. Sereda, G. E. Grechnev, 
V. V. Khotkevich, N. V. Savchenko, M. Yu. Shvedun.

The development and achivments in magnetic spectroscopy of metals
have been awarded by The State Prize of Ukraine (I.V. Svechkarev, 1980).


At present, 12 scientific staff members and 1 PhD student work at the 
Department, among them four Doctors of Sciences (V. V. Eremenko, I. V. Svechkarev,
V. A. Sirenko, G. E. Grechnev ) 
and 5 Candidates of Sciences (Ph.D.): , V. A. Desnenko, A.S. Panfilov, V. B. Pluzhnikov,
Yu. A. Shabakaeva,M. Yu. Shvedun.

Main scientific fields

The research field of the department covers a broad area of fundamental problems within magnetic properties of metals, intermetallic compounds and alloys.
 
This includes primarily:
 
• Studies of magnetization and magnetic susceptibility in localized and itinerant magnetic systems under high pressure, including rare-earths and actinides.
• Investigations of structural defects with magnetic methods.
• Investigations of the de Haas - van Alphen effect in various intermetallic compounds under pressure.
• Studies of uniaxial compression effects on magnetic properties in anisotropic magnetic materials.
• Magnetic properties and effects of High Tc, GMR and CMR oxides under phase transitions.
• Magnetostriction in magnetic and superconducting compounds. 
• Experimental and theoretical investigations of anomalous conduction electrons diamagnetism.
• First-principles calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of metallic systems and semiconductors.
• Theoretical studies of magnetic structure of solids.
 
The achieved scientific results cover a broad spectrum of problems in the following fields:
 
The de Haas - van Alphen effect has been revealed and investigated in RGa₃ rare-earth compounds.
Giant orbital diamagnetism was discovered in metals and compounds, related to topological FS transitions.
Theoretically studied anisotropic magnetic properties of HCP iron in the Earth inner core, and its possible relation to the seismic anisotropy of Earth.
Theoretical investigations of electronic structure, stability, magnetic and electro-chemical properties of potential lithium batteries based on Mn oxides.
Analysis of elastic properties of super hard materials, such as transition metals dioxides and dodecaborides.
Strong pressure effect on exchange interactions and band structure was found in highly enhanced itinerant paramagnets and weak ferromagnets, based on 3d-elements, rare-earths and actinides.
Peculiar magnetic properties of concentrated Kondo systems were studied.
Detailed calculations of electronic structures, elastic and magnetic properties of rare-earth hexaborides and dodecaborides have been performed.
Discovery of quantum magnetic oscillations of magnetostriction in the mixed state of superconductors.

RESEARCH GROUPS:

Low Temperature magnetic studies

De Haas - van Alphen effect studies

Studies of pressure effects on magnetic properties

Theoretical studies of electronic structure and magnetic properties

Principal research group of Academician V. V. Eremenko
Studies of structures and magnetoelastic properties of low-dimensional systems in the region of low temperature phase transitions
 

The department is actively involved in international cooperation with a number of foreign scientific centers:

• International Laboratory of High Magnetic Field and Low Temperatures, Wroclaw, Poland.
• W. Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Wroclaw, Poland.
• Institute of Physics, PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences)
• Kyoto University (Department of Material Science and Engineering), Japan
• Florida State University (Department of Physics), USA
• Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice, Slovak Republic
• Advanced Nanotechnology Co. New-York, USA
• Iowa State University, USA
• Lucent Technology, New-Jersey, USA
• Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA
• Grenoble High Magnetic Field La. France
• Laboratory des Tres Bass Temperature, Grenoble, France
• Cavendish Lab., Cambridge U., Great Britain
• Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India
• Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, Minsk, Belarus
• University of Uppsala, Sweden
• Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany
• IInstitute of Metal Physics of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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