Quantum Physics for Advanced Materials Engineering

• Admission
• Learning Outcomes
• Accreditation
• Degree Requirements
• Required Courses
• Elective Courses
• Degree Requirements at a Glance
• Faculty
• Contacts

Admission

To be admitted as a regular graduate student to a two-year Master’s program at MISIS, an applicant must have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.

The deadline to submit the application for Fall term is August 10. However, international students are strongly encouraged to apply by July 15.

Admission is open to both Russian and international students and it includes a short individual online interview with Professors Sergei Mukhin (head of the program) and/or prof. Maxim Telenkov. Please see the Entrance Examination Content (94.9 KB)

Learning Outcomes

Courses in experimental research methods introduce students to different promising materials used as a basis in quantum electronics as well as to various measurement methods, including:

• spectroscopy
• tunneling microscopy
• scanning ion microscopy
• the accuracy, sensitivity, locality, and applicability of different measurement methods for the study of nanomaterials

Studied electronic devices and appliances include:

• tunnel contact of atomic size
• magnetic switches on the basis of manganites with colossal magnetoresistance
• Josephson junctions
• emitting diodes and infrared, visible and ultraviolet lasers, photodetectors, and transistors

Studied manufacturing technologies of quantum-sized materials:

• liquid-phase epitaxy
• molecular-beam epitaxy
• vapor-phase epitaxy from organometallic compounds
• nanolithography
• self-organization of quantum wires and dots

The list of possible directions of your master’s research project can include:

• superconductor metamaterials and their applications in the innovate optoelectronics (stealth-technologies, super-lens,anapole based systems)
• quantum computer, theory of quantum information and quantum cryptography
• ab-initio calculations for modeling and developing of new materials
• physics of lipid membraines, interaction of living cells with viruses and antibiotics
• infrared and THz optoelectronics
• quansicrystalls
• modern theory of field
• single-electronics and single-photonics
• theory of solidification, kinetics of phasetransitions in metallic melts
• theory of strongly correlated systems
• theory of macroscopic phenomena in quantum matter.
• theory of superconductivity

Accreditation

This program has been certified by ASIIN (Accreditation Agency for Degree Programs in Engineering, Informatics, the Natural Sciences and Mathematics). ASIIN is one of the most important quality assurance institutions for technical and scientific study programs and this German-based agency accredits and advises institutes of higher education throughout Europe. “The ASIIN quality seal for study programs provides assurance that subject specific quality standards of the academic discipline and of the profession for which that program prepares are met at high level. It confirms further that a suitable framework for good teaching and successful learning is provided. The award of the seal is based on learning outcome oriented standards of the involved disciplines and complies with the European Qualifications Framework and the ‘European Standards and Guidelines.’”

• Page on ASIIN web-site
• ASIIN Accreditation (443.3 KB)

The program is also accredited by the Association for Engineering Education in Russia:

• EUR-ACE Accreditation (234 KB)

Degree Requirements

To graduate from the program, you must successfully complete 120 credit hours, including 74 credits from required and elective courses, 16 credits from research work, and 30 credits from the final examination and the thesis defense. Students will be enrolled for 30 credits per term. For a semester-by-semester breakdown of the course plan and course descriptions, please see full curriculum.

Upon completion of the degree requirements, the graduate will receive a Russian State Diploma and a European Diploma Supplement.

Required Courses

Departmental courses:

• Modern Quantum Physics of Solids
• Electron Theory of Metals
• Technologies and Materials of Quantum Electronics
• Spectroscopic Methods for Analysis of Materials

Interdepartmental courses:

• Foreign Language
• Project Management
• Economics of Innovation
• Management of Quality
• Intellectual Properties Rights Protection

Elective Courses

• Quantum Electronic Properties of Nanosystems
• Physics of Liquid-Crystal Membranes
• Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems
• Experimental Methods in the Physics of Low-dimensional Systems
• Phase Diagrams of Multicomponent Systems
• Electronic Properties of Quantum Confined Semiconductor Heterostructures
• Introduction to Path Integral Methods in Condensed Matter Physics
• Physical Principles of Quantum Information and Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena in Superconducting Systems

Degree Requirements at a Glance

For more details please see full curriculum.

Faculty

Each course page (see required and elective courses) has a link to the instructor’s page where you can find a photo, short bio, and list of publications.