A.F. Ioffe FTI - A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology

The A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology is one of the leading physical and technological centers in the world and is included in the list of the largest scientific organizations in Russia. At the Institute, both fundamental and applied research in the most important fields of modern physics and technology is being conducted on a wide front.

The main scientific activities of the Institute are: plasma physics; atomic physics; astrophysics; physical electronics; solid state physics; physics and technology of semiconductor heterostructures; new materials.

The Institute's research is aimed at implementing the Priority Areas of the "Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation":

• development of new materials for the component base of nanoelectronics, photonics and spintronics, new structural and functional materials, methods of their design and intelligent technologies for their formation, creation of systems for processing large amounts of data,
• development of environmentally friendly and resource-saving technologies, including renewable, energy production, conversion and storage,
• the transition to personalized medicine, high-tech healthcare and health-saving technologies by leveraging the advances of physics in the life sciences, and
• development of methods for countering technogenic and other threats to society and the state.

History

2023: Creating a photon source for quantum computers

Scientists from the A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology (FTI) RAS have developed a semiconductor device for the controlled emission of single photons. Similar devices can be made in just a few laboratories in the world. Such photons can act as units of information - qubits. This was Ministry of Education and Science reported on July 5, 2023.

We have developed the first source of single photons in Russia. This device is a structure whose center is a quantum dot - an artificial semiconductor object with extremely small dimensions, which has many properties of a single atom, "says Alexey Toropov, Head of the Quantum Photonics Laboratory of the FTI named after A.F. Ioffe. - Due to their unique characteristics, quantum dots are quantum objects that emit absolutely identical (indistinguishable) single photons that can be used as qubits in quantum computing devices.

Scientists have developed a semiconductor device for the controlled emission of single photons

The source of single photons is based on a nanoscale heterostructure: a multilayer semiconductor material. On the surface of the substrate by scientists of the FTI named after A.F. Ioffe, quantum dots are grown - miniature "islets" of indium arsenide surrounded by gallium arsenide.

Research has been conducted since 2020 within the framework of the "Quantum Computing" roadmap developed by Rosatom. The main interested party is Russian Railways. And now that the basic version of the device is ready, it is possible to work on improving the characteristics of heterostructures with quantum dots.

Quantum computers are much more powerful than traditional computers. However, their mass production requires a relatively inexpensive and efficient component base. The creation of a photon source is one of the steps towards solving this problem, the Ministry of Education and Science notes.^[1]

2022: Participation in the development of optical transceivers using a photon-integrated circuit

Future Technologies announced on December 29, 2022 that it is starting the development and production of optical transceivers using a photon-integrated circuit (FIS).

A four-party agreement was signed between Future Technologies (FayberTrade LLC), FSBUN A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology (A.F. Ioffe FTI), FIS Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center (ZNTC JSC) and FSAOU HE "National Research University" Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology "(NIU MIET). Read more here.

2018

June 27, 2018 by order of the Government of the Russian Federation FTI named after A.F. Ioffe was transferred to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

2013

Until the end of December 2013, the institute was an institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was part of the Department of Physical Sciences.

1918: Foundation of the Institute

The institute was founded in 1918 by Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, who then headed it for several decades. Since 1960, the institute has been named after this outstanding scientist and organizer of science.

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