For over 15 years now, our group has been conducting research on different glassy and glassy-crystalline materials based on oxides, fluorides and chalcogenides.

Both fundamental foundations of glassy and crystalline states, and the practical applications of these materials are considered, including:

• synthesis of glasses with the desired physicochemical properties (density, refractive index, coefficient of thermal expansion, spectral transparency, glass transition/softening temperature, microhardness, resistance to acids, alkalis or moisture);
• synthesis of highly refractive immersion media (refractive index > 2.0);
• purification of chemical constituents in static and dynamic vacuum;
• synthesis of high-purity compounds: sulfides, halides, nitrides;
• integrated development of technologies for production/deposition of bulk glassy coatings and microlenses, including automation of these processes using machine vision;
• development and synthesis of luminescent glasses and glass ceramics for laser technologies, photonics and optical thermometry.

A wide array of equipment is available at the laboratory, allowing to carry out research on optical materials science, IR spectroscopy, refractometry, crystallography, dilatometry, differential thermal analysis, visible and IR luminescence, thermal diffusion, chemical composition analysis, structural and phase analysis.