Surname: | Kharchenko | ||
First name: | Mykola (Nicholas) | ||
Middle name: | Fedorovych | ||
Date of birth: | 1939 | ||
Education and Academic records: | Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine: | Student of Physics-Mathematics Dept., 1955 - 1960; | M.Sc. in Physics, 1960. |
B.Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine: |
-Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Physics, 1969; -DSc in Solid State Physics, 1984; -Professor in Solid State Physics, 1993; -Associate member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1995; -Full member (Academician) of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 2009 |
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Employment: | B.Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: |
-Junior researcher, 1961-1963 -Post graduate, engineer-researcher, 1963-1969 -Scientist, 1969-1972 -Senior scientist, 1972-1985 -Head of the Department "Optics and Magnetism of Solids", 1985-today. |
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Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine: | Professor of chair of General Physics, (combined job), courses with 1984 - up the present: |
"Physics of Magnetic Phenomena " and "Magneto-optics of magnetically ordered solids" | |
Field of scientific interests |
-Magneto-optics of magnetically ordered solids; -Time-reversed antiferromagnetic domains; -Magnetic phase transitions and multiple-phase magnetic domains; -Photoinduced magnetic phenomena; -Magnetic field induced structural phase transitions. -Exchange bias |
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The main scientific results: | the revealing, symmetry analysis, investigating and applications of the new magneto-optical effects: linear magneto-optical effect and the quadratic in magnetic field rotation of light polarization plane, which are permitted only in magnetically ordered media. |