Institute for Physical Research
Encyclopedia
The Institute for Physical Research (IPR) (Russian
: ; Armenian
: ) of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
is a physics
research institute located in Armenia
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in Aragatsotn
province of Armenia, 20 km northwest of capital Yerevan
and includes a small scientific settlement called Gitavan
, inhabited by the part of its staff and by the scientists of the nearby Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics (IRPhE).
Besides the research, IPR organizes annually the National Conference on Laser Physics – an authoritative conference attended internationally.
an and US research organizations and foundations. The basic research laboratories of the institute are the following:
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: ; Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
: ) of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Armenian Academy of Sciences
The Armenian Academy of Sciences is the primary body that conducts research in and coordinates activities in the fields of science and social sciences in the Republic of Armenia. It was founded on November 29, 1943...
is a physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
research institute located in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
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History
IPR was founded in 1967 by a prominent Armenian scientist Mikael Levonovich Ter-Mikaelian and currently is one of the leading research institutions in Armenia.Location
It is situated near the town of AshtarakAshtarak
Ashtarak is an industrial city in Armenia, on the left bank of Kasagh River along the gorge, approximately 20 km north-west of the capital Yerevan, at a height of 1110 meters above sea level. It is the administrative capital of Aragatsotn province...
in Aragatsotn
Aragatsotn
Aragatsotn is a province of Armenia. It is in the west of the country, and its capital is Ashtarak. The name means "a foot of Aragats" . During the Arsacid Dynasty of the Kingdom of Armenia, the region was part of the Ayrarat province...
province of Armenia, 20 km northwest of capital Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
and includes a small scientific settlement called Gitavan
Gitavan
Gitavan is a tiny settlement of scientists concentrated around the Institute for Physical Research and the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, both forming a part of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia....
, inhabited by the part of its staff and by the scientists of the nearby Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics (IRPhE).
Research Topics and Other Activities
The institute's main research topics are:- Laser physicsLaser PhysicsLaser Physics is an international scientific journal published by Nauka/Interperiodica. It is distributed through the Springer.-Topics covered:The journal specializes in laser physics, but also publishes papers about:...
- Nonlinear opticsNonlinear opticsNonlinear optics is the branch of optics that describes the behavior of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the dielectric polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light...
- Quantum opticsQuantum opticsQuantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter.- History of quantum optics :...
- Interaction of radiation with matter
- Crystal growth and characterizationCrystal growthA crystal is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. Crystal growth is a major stage of a crystallization process, and consists in the addition of new atoms, ions, or polymer strings into...
- Solid-state physicsSolid-state physicsSolid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the large-scale properties of solid materials result from...
- High-temperature superconductivityHigh-temperature superconductivityHigh-temperature superconductors are materials that have a superconducting transition temperature above . From 1960 to 1980, 30 K was thought to be the highest theoretically possible Tc...
- Scientific instrumentScientific instrumentA scientific instrument can be any type of equipment, machine, apparatus or device as is specifically designed, constructed and often, through trial and error, ingeniously refined to apply utmost efficiency in the utilization of well proven physical principle, relationship or technology to...
ation
Besides the research, IPR organizes annually the National Conference on Laser Physics – an authoritative conference attended internationally.
Research Groups
Many of research groups from IPR have intensive collaboration with EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an and US research organizations and foundations. The basic research laboratories of the institute are the following:
- High-Temperature Superconductivity Laboratory
- Theoretical Physics Laboratory
- Optics Laboratory
- Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy
- Crystal Growth of Luminescence Materials Laboratory
- Quantum Informatics Laboratory
- Crystal Optics Laboratory
- Solid State Lasers and Spectroscopy
- Solid State Physics Laboratory
- Superconducting Detector's Physics Laboratory
- Non-Linear Crystals and Elaborations Laboratory