Young scientists from MIET Institute got extended funding
The Russian Science Foundation (RNF) has published the competition results of the Presidential Program of research projects for grants to young scientists and research teams under their leadership. The winner was the team of Peter Lazarenko from the Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies. They received additional funding to continue their projects over the next two years.
The project of the Peter Lazarenko's team is "Integrated nanophotonics devices based on phase-altering chalcogenide semiconductor materials". The research is carried out in the MIET's new laboratory for young scientists "Materials and Devices of Active Photonics", created for the development of non-volatile high-speed reversibly reconfigurable elements and integrated photonic circuits. The key partner of the laboratory is the Scientific-Manufacturing Complex "Technological Centre", which adapts technologies to the existing production standards of microelectronics. Another important partner is the "Lasers and Equipment" Research and Production Center, which is aimed at the development and production of industrial laser equipment.
In 2021, Peter Lazarenko's team together with scientists from the Moscow State University created a chip for the new generation of photonic technologies, which would become the basis of an artificial synapse — the main component of neuromorphic computers. In 2022, scientists developed non-volatile photonic elements, on the basis of which it would make it possible to create a domestically produced neuromorphic computing system. That research made the list of the 10 best scientific results of the Russian Science Foundation grantees for 2022.
The research project was supported in 2020 by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, which annual funding is 5.9 million rubles over the next three years. The competition for young scientists from the Russian Science Foundation is designed to support the formation of a new generation of scientific leaders – young candidates and doctors of sciences under the age of 35. It helps to promote their scientific careers, expand the horizons of their scientific work and the research teams, which in the future would have a chance to become the basis of new scientific departments and laboratories.