Ioffe Institute 1918-1998: Development and Research Activities

Introduction......Page 4
Development of the Institute......Page 9
The first 70 years В. В. Dyakov......Page 10
Recent decade: 1988-1998 I. A. Merkulov......Page 15
Scientific Reviews on Advanced Areas......Page 40
Theory of semiconductors E. L. Ivchenko and V. I. Perel......Page 123
Semiconductor heterostructures Zh. I. Alferov, V. M. Andreev, and N. N. Ledentsov......Page 58
Optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and dielectrics B. P. Zakharchenya, A. A. Kaplyanskii, and S. A. Permogorov......Page 90
Power semiconductor electronics IV. Grekhov......Page 107
New physical phenomena in ferroelectric and magnetic crystals S. B. Vakhrushev, V. V. Lemanov, R. V. Pisarev, and V. A. Sanina......Page 117
Wide-bandgap semiconductors Yu. A. VoJakov, E. N. Mokhov, Yu. V. Zhilyaev, and V. I. Sankin......Page 127
Physical kinetics of deformation and fracture of solids V. S. Kuksenko, A. M. Leksovski/, S. P. Nikanorov, A. B. Sinani, A. I. Slutsker, and B. I. Smirnov......Page 143
Optical data processing and holography Yu. N. Denisyuk, S. B. Gurevich, and V. B. Konstantinov......Page 153
Physics of atomic collisions and its applications V. К Afrosimov, Yu. S. Gordeev, and M. P. Petrov......Page 157
Study of ohmic H-mode in the TUMAN-3 tokamak V. E. Go/ant and S. V. Lebedev......Page 167
Two topics of astrophysics-and-physics overlap: Fundamental constants and Neutron stars D. A. Varshalovich, A. Y. Potekhin, A. V. Ivanchik, and D. G. Yakovlev 1 Measuring the fundamental constants in the early......Page 177
Cosmic gamma-ray bursts E. P. Mazets......Page 188
Development of new methods of mass spectrometry. Basic research and discoveries B. A. Mamyrin......Page 198
Institute\'s Research Divisions......Page 208
Personalia......Page 216
Honorary Membership......Page 242