Affiliation and official address: Optics of Solids Department and Scientific Ingineering Center for microelectronics,  A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences,  26 Polytechnicheskaya str., 194021 St.Petersburg, Russia

Date and place of birth:    April 15, 1946, St.Petersburg, Russia 

Nationality: Russian

Education: 
MS, 1969, Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University
PhD, 1975, Optics of Solids Department, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute

Career/Employment: 
Optics of Solids Department and Centre of Microelectronics, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 
Russian Academy of Sciences, 
                 Junior Researcher, 1969-1978
                 Researcher, 1978-1989
                 Senior Researcher, 1989 – 1998
                 Leading Researcher, 1999 - present
                 Head of Research Group, 1978 - present

Doctor of Sciences in Phys&Math, 1997, Optics of Solids Department, Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Specialization:

(i) main field
    Molecular Beam Epitaxy of fluoride heterostructures
(ii) other fields
     Scanning probe microscopy and studies of growth processes
     Optical properties of fluoride heterostructures
(iii) current research interest
      Fluoride nanostructures on silicon
      Nano- and heterostructures with magnetically ordered layers

Fellowships, Membership of Professional Societies:
Fellowship of Ministry Education of Japan for fluoride studies 1992/1993
Membership in Electrochemical Society, 1994, USA
Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for studies of fluoride structures 1996

Publications (list of selected publications see below)

   Number of papers in refereed journals: over 80
   Number of communications to scientific meetings:  over 85
 
 

Recent selected publications 

1. N.S.Sokolov, L.J.Schowalter. Vapor epitaxy of fluorides on semiconductors, in: 
    The   Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and  Technology, Elsevier Science, 
   2001, ISBN: 0-08-043152-6

2. N.S.Sokolov, S.M.Suturin. MBE growth of calcium and cadmium fluoride 
    nanostructures on silicon, Appl. Surf. Sci., v.175-176 (2001)  620-629

3. L.Pasquali, S. D’Addato,  G. Selvaggi, S. Nannarone, N.S.Sokolov, S.M.Suturin, 
    H.Zogg. Formation of CaF2 nanostructures on Si(001), Nanotechnology v.12 
    (2001) 403-408

4. N.S.Sokolov, S.M.Suturin. MBE growth peculiarities of fluoride (CdF2-CaF2) thin 
    film structures, Thin Solid Films, v.367/1-2 (2000) 112-119

5. A.G.Banshchikov, S.V.Gastev, M.Ichida, A.Nakamura, H.Ofuchi, N.S.Sokolov, 
    M.Tabuchi, Y.Takeda, N.L.Yakovlev, M.V.Zamoryanskaya. Luminescence and 
    structural studies of novel MnF2 heterostructures, J.Lumin., v.87-89 (2000) 
    519-521

6. H. Ofuchi, M. Tabuchi, A.G. Banshchikov N.S. Sokolov, N.L. Yakovlev, Y.Takeda. 
    Fluorescence EXAFS study on local structures around Mn  atoms in MnF2 - 
   CaF2 superlattices and double heterostructures  on Si(111), Appl. Surf. Sci. 
   v.159-160 (2000) 220-224

7. O.V.Anisimov, A.G.Banshchikov, A.V.Krupin, M.M.Moisseeva,  N.S.Sokolov, 
    V.P.Ulin, N.L. Yakovlev. Manganese Fluoride Epitaxial  Growth on Si(111), Thin 
    Solid Films, v367/1-2 (2000) 199-202.

8. N.S.Sokolov, Y.Takeda, A.G.Banshchikov, J.Harada, K.Inaba, H.Ofuchi,
    M.Tabuchi, and N.L. Yakovlev. MBE-growth of novel  MnF2-CaF2 superlattices 
     on Si(111) and their characterization, Appl. Surf. Sci., v. 162-163 (2000) 469-473. 

9. N.S.Sokolov, S.V.Gastev, A.Yu.Khilko, R.N.Kyutt, S.M.Suturin and 
    M.V.Zamoryanskaya. CdF2-CaF2 superlattices on Si(111): MBE  growth, 
   structural and luminescence studies, J.Cryst. Growth, v.201/202 (1999) 1053-1056

10. N.S.Sokolov, S.V.Gastev, A.Yu.Khilko, S.M.Suturin, I.N.Yassievich,  J.M.Langer, 
      A.Kozanezcki. Tunneling-assisted autoionization of the localized impurities in 
      nanostructures, Phys.Rev B 59 (1999) R2525-R2528