About the Department

The Department was opened in 1950. In 1960, a new Department was organized on the initiative of Prof. I. Tikhomirov, Head of the Department. It was a dual-profile department engaged in nuclear power engineering and isotope separation. In the early 60s, there were stipulated conditions and the appropriate academic staff for the establishment of two new Departments on the basis of this one. Since January 1966, the Department of Technical Physics has started its independent activity.

The Department has been carrying out deep research into the problems of atom industry and space technology. New scientific routes were developed and implemented in the educational programs of the Department on fine purification of substances and isotope separation by methods of molecular physics; physics and plasma chemistry and substance burning; nuclear physics and engineering. Experimental and technological findings oriented towards raising the effectiveness of separating production were used and implemented in industrial enterprises of the Ministry of Atom Industry.

Since 1970, the Department started to investigate the use of plasma of ultra high discharges for modelling processes of entering spacecraft dense atmospheric layers and conducting tests for materials and pyrotechnic compositions used in rocket and space technology. Today the research is being conducted into the interaction between plasma and substance, producing ultra dispersed powders and solving ecological problems.

Increasing the level of professional advancement of the graduates is achieving by means of the use of scientific and intellectual potential of our teaching staff as well as separating enterprises' workers of the Siberian region: The Siberian Chemical Combine (Seversk), Electrochemical Plant (Zelenogorsk), Angarsk Electrolysis Combine (Angarsk), Novosibirsk Plant of Chemical Concentrates (Novosibirsk). The educational process provided on the original basis of at these enterprises also promotes the professional preparation of our graduates. Thus, in 2000, the Technical Physics Department laboratory was established on the basis of the Isotope Separation Plant of the Siberian Chemical Combine and has a great success.

The educational process is performed by 14 faculty members, including six professors and five a/professors. At present, the Department has trained more than 1,500 engineers.

The magistrates has been opened in the field of physics of kinetic phenomena. The following educational programmes are available: engineering and technology of isotopes and substance polishing; hi-tech plasma-chemical, laser, membrane and ion exchange technologies; physical methods of analysis.