Scientific school "Physics of low-dimensional magnetics"
Founded by Anatolii M. Pogorily

 

Anatolii Pogorily (1943-2024) - a well-known scientist in the field of solid state physics, magnetism, film and nanostructure physics, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Laureate of the Puluj Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
His research interests include fundamental and applied problems of low-dimensional magnetics, development and research of nanomaterials for microwave electronics, spintronics and memory devices.

Activities of the scientific school

Anatolii Pogorily’s school is a vivid example of a classical scientific school, which performs the following main functions: obtaining scientific knowledge (research and training), disseminating scientific knowledge (communication) and training talented students (reproduction). The school is based on three generations of researchers: the founder of the school, his followers, and the students of his followers.
A.M. Pogorily Scientific School is a continuation of the knowledge and traditions developed by its preceders. The foundation of the school was laid by a famous scientist in the field of solid state physics, Andrii Gerasymovych Lisnyk. Andrii Gerasymovych was the initiator and for a long time the head of the Department of Film Physics at the Institute of Metallophysics of the UkrSSR Academy of Sciences. A.G. Lisnyk's researches were devoted to a wide range of problems in metallophysics: the theory of the structure of metals and alloys, the theory of the decay of solid solutions, the nature of interatomic interaction in alloys, and the study of the physical properties of metal films. Under his leadership, such scientists as M.O. Bilous, K.Y. Guslienko, Y.V. Kudryavtsev, I.V. Lezhnenko, O.I. Mitsek, A.M. Pogorily, V.M. Pushkar, L.M. Sandler, and O.I. Tovstolytkin went through various stages of formation.

The founder of the school

A.M. Pogorily's scientific activity is closely connected with two institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – the Institute of Metallophysics and the Institute of Magnetism. At the former, he worked his way up from a graduate student to head of the department and deputy director for research. At the latter, of which he was one of the founders, he worked as deputy director for research, department head and, in recent years, chief researcher.

Anatolii Pogorily’s first steps in science were related to the study of thin-film magnetic materials. The main direction of his scientific activity was the study of the high-frequency and microwave properties of ferromagnetic films, the influence of crystal and magnetic structure defects, dimensional factors, and technological modes on them in order to create new film materials with specified properties
A.M. Pogorily was the first to:
- investigated the phenomenon of coupled electron-nuclear oscillations in magnetic films at liquid helium temperatures;
- initiated the study of nuclear resonance in heavy rare earth magnetics films;
- studied the influence of quadrupole interaction on the features of spin echo in films of terbium, gadolinium and their alloys;
- proposed a method for measuring the demagnetizing factor in permalloy thin films and showed that it differs from that calculated for an ideal ferromagnetic film;
- using the direct method (spin-wave resonance), he measured the stable magnetic interaction in amorphous iron-terbium films and confirmed the existing theoretical models of the essential role of iron ions in such interactions.
    In the latter period, his activities were focused on the study of interlayer, interatomic and hyperfine interactions in ultrathin layered and modulated films, the study of the behavior of layered structures in alternating magnetic and electric fields, the development of nanomaterials for microwave electronics, spintronics and memory devices.
He participated in:
- development of new magnetic film materials for radio signal processing and storage devices, which were implemented in special radio electronics systems;
- development of a new technology for obtaining a heat-resistant magnetic recording medium for emergency recorders with a record temperature value at which the recorded information is stored;
- a series of studies on the influence of interlayer interaction on the magnetotransport properties of multilayer and modulated film structures of transition and noble metals;
- the determination of the role of the features of the Fermi surfaces of the constituent metals in the formation of galvanomagnetic properties of film nanostructures;
- a number of pioneering experimental and theoretical studies of the phenomena of giant and tunneling magnetoresistance in layered and granular magnetic nanostructures, as well as colossal magnetoresistance in thin films of substituted manganites;
- a work series on the development of magnetic media with a “left-handed” refractive index in the millimeter wave range.

Anatolii Pogorily's scientific work has always been characterized by originality in the choice of topics, novelty of ideas, depth and comprehensiveness of their analysis. The results of his research are reflected in more than 200 scientific articles published in leading national and foreign journals, 30 certificates and patents for inventions.

A.M. Pogorily is one of the organizers of the Department of Targeted Training of the Kyiv National University of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and for a long time he taught special courses on magnetism at the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Radiophysics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Together with colleagues from the same university, he published textbooks on general physics and materials science. 

Followers and students of his followers

A.M. Pogorily trained 20 PhDs and 7 Doctors of Science. The impetus provided by Anatolii Mykolaiovych had a significant impact on the life and work of each of them. Among the students who defended their PhD thesis under his supervision and made a significant contribution to science, we should mention G.M. Kakazey, V.V. Kotov, A.F. Kravets, O.M. Kuzmak, N.A. Lesnik, V.L. Perepelytsia, E.O. Pogorelov, Y.O. Podielets, S.Y. Kharytonsky, V.I. Chernetsky, and O.V. Shypil. Some of the students have changed their field of activity and are working in fields related to science, have become statesmen or successful businessmen, but a significant number of them continue to work in the research field.
Fate scattered his students far beyond the borders of Ukraine. For example, N.A. Lesnik works in Germany, A.Y. Vovk and G.M. Kakazey - in Portugal, O.V. Shypil - in the United States, and E.O. Pogorelov - in Sweden. 
The followers of A.M. Pogorily, who continue and develop the research initiated by the founder, are independent scientists and are already leading work in certain areas of solid state physics, magnetism, optics, nanophysics and nanotechnology. The diagram below shows the main areas of scientific activity of A.M. Pogorily and his followers.

Anatolii Pogorily and his students have participated in the publication of scientific textbooks for students and monographs, and regularly publish the results of their research in high-impact journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review, and others. It is also important that the followers already have their own students who work fruitfully in the scientific field.