General Information
The Department was established in 2004 through the merger of the Departments of Experimental Physics and General Physics, both of which had been formed in 1997 on the basis of the Department of General Physics, originally founded in 1972. Thus, the Department of Experimental and General Physics has its roots in the Department of General Physics, which in the early 1970s emerged as a result of the division of the original Department of Physics (at that time the only physics department at the university) into three: the Departments of General Physics, Theoretical Physics, and Experimental Physics. In 1997, the Department of General Physics was split into two: the Department of Experimental Physics (headed by Assoc. Prof. A. S. Batyrev) and the Department of General Physics (headed by Prof. U. M. Kulish). These two departments existed until the summer of 2004, when they were merged to form the current Department of Experimental and General Physics. Since its foundation, the department has been headed by Associate Professor, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexander Sergeyevich Batyrev.
The Department serves as a graduating department for the program “Chemistry, Physics and Mechanics of Materials.” It also provides instruction in General Physics for students of all natural science and engineering programs offered at Kalmyk State University.
Main Research Areas
- Exciton spectroscopy of the near-surface region of A2B6 and A3B5 semiconductor crystals
- Photoelectric spectroscopy of semiconductors
- Electrophysics of semiconductor materials and related structures
Research Interests
- Methods of teaching physics
- Optical and photoelectric properties of semiconductors
- Surface physics of semiconductor materials
- Techniques for studying semiconductor nanomaterials
Research Collaborations
- North-Caucasus Federal University
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Southern Federal University