Physics & Engineering: Nanophotonics and Metamaterials

Please note that obtaining an invitation and a visa will take at least a month. We ask you to apply for the Master’s program before July 15, 2021, in order to take the entrance exams and receive your documents in due time.

Career Options

Graduates acquire a range of competencies essential for PhD studies both in Russia and abroad and for their future career in leading high-tech companies, research institutions, and scientific laboratories.

The Master’s degree program in Nanophotonics and Metamaterials is the only program in Russia as well as one of the few programs in the world that trains specialists in nanophotonics, nanotechnologies, and metamaterials. The program is led by ITMO’s Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, one of the leading research centers in the field.

If you wish to take part in advanced research of new optical materials, methods of optical control and light interaction with matter, and to try your hand at new generation microwave development, this program is for you!

The Program

• Focuses on the study of metamaterials, new materials that will revolutionize telecommunication, radio technology, and the power industry. The physics of metamaterials combines optics and nanophotonics, radiophysics and solid-state physics.
• Covers all fundamentals of electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics. The wide range of special courses taught by research center staff includes up-to-date courses in nanophotonics, quantum optics, numerical methods, radiophysics, and others.
• Involves intensive laboratory studies using facilities of the center: optical instrumentation, radiofrequency measurements, and nanotechnology fabrication methods. 
• Places students in active research teams, accelerating hands-on knowledge and professional growth.
• Offers a personalized track depending on students’ specialization.
• Opens doors to the best PhD programs in universities all over the world in the field of physics and engineering. The Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials has industrial partners both in Russia and worldwide (i.e. Bosch and Samsung).

During the study process students work side by side with leading researchers of the Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and international research laboratories:

• Laboratory of Nano-Opto-Mechanics

• Laboratory of Light-matter coupling in nanostructures

• Laboratory of Applied Radiophysics

Students get an opportunity to take a research traineeship and improve their skills in leading research centers around the world. Among the most popular internship destinations are Moscow, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Zurich (Switzerland), Paris (France), New York (the USA), Canberra (Australia), Helsinki (Finland), Tel-Aviv (Israel) and many others.

Nice bonus! The most successful candidates will be nominated for the ITMO Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials Scholarship.

The Scholarship covers:

• tuition fees;
• university student accommodation for a period of two years;
• a few travel grants covering your expenses for traveling to St. Petersburg;
• additional living allowance (10,000 rubles per month);
• the most successful students will be offered laboratory assistant positions for the period of their studies at ITMO.

Requirements

Scholarships are offered to successful international applicants from any foreign countries (except the citizens of former USSR countries). The applicants should possess a Bachelor's degree in Physics, Engineering or other relevant field with excellent/good grades and upper-intermediate level of English.

How to apply for the scholarship

Please send your CV, Motivation and Recommendation Letters to julia.tolstykh@metalab.ifmo.ru with the following email subject “Master’s scholarship application”.

Application deadline: May 31, 2020 (the admission results will be announced in June 2020).

The scholarship is offered ONLY TO THOSE WITH EXCELLENT GRADES.

If the students fail any semester final examinations, the scholarship is canceled.

Contents of the Program

1st Semester: 

• Project Management (Entrepreneurial Culture) - 4 credits
• English for Specific Purposes - 2 credits
• Soft Skills - 4 credits
• Data Processing and Analysis (online) - 3 credits
• Mathematical Methods in Physics - 3 credits
• Photonics - 3 credits
• Research Internship - 9 credits
• Quantum Mechanics - 4 credits

2nd Semester:

• Research Internship - 9 credits
• Experimental Fabrication Methods in Nanophotonics (OR) Numerical Methods in Optics and Photonics - 5 credits
• Numerical Methods in Electrodynamics (OR) Quantum Optics - 3 credits
• Applied Artificial Intelligence (online) - 3 credits
• English for Specific Purposes - 2 credits
• Electrodynamics of Metamaterials - 4 credits
• Nanoplasmonics - 4 credits

3rd Semester:

• Modern Trends in Nano-Optics - 3 credits
• Nonlinear Photonics - 3 credits
• Experimental Characterization Methods in Nanophotonics (OR) Analytical Methods in Optics and Photonics - 5 credits
• Introduction to Experimental Methods of Nanophotonics (OR) Introduction to Quantum Optics - 2 credits
• Research Internship - 12 credits

4th Semester:

• Research Internship - 12 credits
• Senior Internship - 12 credits
• Preparation and Thesis Defense - 6 credits

*The applicants are required to pass entrance examinations successfully.

The list of entrance examination questions

Student review

Want to know more? Read the full interview of Prithu Roy by ITMO.NEWS to learn more about the major and his experience.

How to apply?

To apply, please follow our step-by-step application guide.

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Contact

• ITMO International Admission Office, international@itmo.ru
• Program Coordinator, Elvira Timofeeva, eotimofeeva@itmo.ru