Scientific Groups


Laboratory of Luminescence

Scientific topics:
  • Mechanisms of transformation of high-energy excitations in crystals;
  • Creation of effective photo- and cathode-ray phosphors;
  • Luminescence characteristics of materials (scintillators, cathode-ray phosphors, lamp phosphors);
  • Search of new effective fast scintillators;
  • Vibronic interaction in crystals;
  • Electron-phonon interaction in crystals.
Staff:
  • Prof. Anatoliy S. Voloshynovskii
  • Assoc. Prof. Igor P. Pashuk
  • Assist. Prof. Vitaliy V. Vistovskyy
  • Researcher Taras S. Malyi
  • Young Researcher Andriy V. Zhyshkovych

Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy

Scientific topics:
  • Exciton behavior and mechanisms of dissipation of excitons;
  • Mechanisms of creation of color centers and their transformation in crystals;
  • Optical properties and energy-band structure of crystals;
  • Lattice dynamic and phonon dispersion;
  • Structural phase transitions in crystals;
  • Impurity states in crystals;
  • Photostimulated changes in crystals.
Staff:
  • Assist. Prof. Zenon A. Khapko
  • Senior researcher Roman V. Gamernyk
  • Engineer Ol’ga M. Pazdriy

Laboratory of Crystalooptics and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Applied Spectroscopy

Scientific topics:
  • Structural phase transitions in crystals;
  • Dispersion analysis of the optical characteristics of crystals in the spectral ranges of transparency and fundamental absorption;
  • Elaboration of the principles of thermometry on the basis of the birefringence inversion phenomenon;
  • Thermooptical properties of crystals at phase transitions.
Staff:
  • Prof. Mykola O. Romanyuk
  • Assist. Prof. Ruslan S. Brezvin
  • Assoc. Prof. Vasyl’ Yu. Kurlyak
  • Laboratory Head Lidiya-Dariya T. Karplyuk (Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Applied Spectroscopy)

Laboratory of Solid State Optics and Spectroscopy

Scientific topics:
  • Optical properties and energy structure of non-linear crystals;
  • Spectroscopy of low-temperature laser plasma;
  • Photoinduced changes in insulators and semiconductors;
  • Optic of high-temperature superconductors;
  • Spectroscopic aspects of configuration interaction in crystals;
  • Physics of circular excitons.
Staff:
  • Prof. Yaroslav O. Dovhyj
  • Engineer Iryna G. Man’kovska

Laser Laboratory

Scientific topics:
  • Study of processes of relaxation exiton – electron – phonon exitations in crystals;
  • Optical processes and excitonic excitations in low-dimensional and quantum;
  • Group theory analysis and calculation of band energy structure of A3B7 compounds;
  • Examination of dispersion and absolute value of refractive indexes by a method of laser elipsometry.
Staff:
  • Prof. Andriy V. Franiv
PhD students:
  • Andriy I. Kashuba