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Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS
IPM RAS affiliates to the Physical science division of Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute was founded in 1993.
The main scientific directions of the Institute include surface physics, solid-state nanostructures, high temperature superconductors, multilayer x-ray optics, technologies and applications of thin films, surface and multilayer structures.
The staff of IPM consists of 275 employees, including more than 140 researchers (18 with doctoral decrees and 78 PhD, 9 State Prize laureates and 1 laureate of State Prize of the Russian Federation for Young Scientists)
IPM RAS has close collaboration with 
Nizhny Novgorod State University with more than 20 employees teaching at NNSU (among them 2 are heads of academic departments based at both NNSU and IPM).
In 2004 the interfaculty base chair «Physics of nanostructures and nanoelectronics” was created at NNSU and IPM RAS. The Common Research Center «Physics and technology of micro- and nanostructures” was organized in order to enhance the efficiency of unique equipment exploitation.
