Group of a magneto-optics:

Mykola F. KHARCHENKO	Head of the Department, Profesor DSc e-mail: kharchenko @ ilt.kharkov.ua
Olga V. Miloslavskaya	Research PhD e-mail: miloslavskaya @ ilt.kharkov.ua
Iryna M. Lukiyenko	Junior Researcher e-mail: lukijenko @ ilt.kharkov.ua
Yuriy M. Kharchenko	Junior Researcher e-mail:ykharchenko @ ilt.kharkov.ua
Olga I. Tutakina	Scientific-Engineer
Nadya S. Zubenko	Junior Researcher e-mail:zubenko @ ilt.kharkov.ua

Main subject of researches:

• Magnetooptical properties of magnetoelastics, antiferromagnetic magnetoelectrics and piezomagnetics..
• Magnetooptical visualization of the 180-degree antiferromagnetic domains and goal-directed variation of their structure.
• Spontaneous and magnetic field-induced structural and magnetic phase transitions.
• Magnetooptical properties of magnetic multileyers.

Experimental equipment:

• Equipment for magnetooptic spectroscopic investigations (birefringence, dichroism) in the Voight and Faraday experimental geometries: magnetic field – up to 7 T generated by superconducting magnet, spectral range –  330 - 670 nm, temperature range –  6 - 300 K, frequency of piezo-acoustic modulator – 18 kHz.
• Equipment for measurements of the Faraday, Voight, polar and longitudinal Kerr effects: magnetic field up to 1.7 T, room temperature.
• Equipment for visual observations of magnetic, antiferromagnetic and crystalline domain structures in the static magnetic field up to 7 T in the temperature range 6 - 300 K.