Radiophysics Faculty :: Brief Hitsroy

      The Kyiv University Faculty of Radiophysics was founded in 1952. From the beginning Faculty aims to train high skilled specialist, expected to combine a profound fundamental backgorund in physics and mathematics with engineering schooling in the field of radioelectronics as well as in closely related branches of science. The Department of Radiophysics is as old as the Faculty itself.
      One of the most active organizer of the Faculty and its first dean, I.A.Derugin was the head of the Radiophysics Department ( since 1962 - the Department of Quantum Radiophysics since 1962). The Department of Semiconductors was introduced into the Faculty in 1954. It was the first department of this type in the former Soviet Union. Academician V.E. Lashkaryov was its organizer and its first head. The Department of Electronics is responsible for training students in general courses of physics. Beginning since 1962 the following departments have been established within the Faculty: the Department of Radioelectronics (1962),the Department of Cryogenics and Microelectronics(1972), the Department of Theoretical Radiophysics(1987), the Department of Medical Radiophysics(1995) and in 1996 the Department of Radioelectronics with The Department of Semiconductors formed the Department of Semiconductor Electronics. Now Academician of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences M.G. Nakhodkin heads the Department of Cryogenics and Microelectronics and Academician of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences V.G. Bar'yahtar heads the Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Radiophysics.

The scientific potential of the Faculty of Radiophysics has grown considerably and now it can be compared to that of an independent research institute. There are several scientific schools at the faculty now. These are the School of Physical Electronics, Physics of Semiconductor ,and Nonlinear Optics.