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Full Names: Sergei Apollonovich Nikitov Date of Birth: 23 April, 1955 Nationality: Russian Marital Status: Married with one child Education and Academic Qualifications
1962 - 1972 Primary and secondary school, Berdichev, Ukraine, USSR 1973 - 1979 MSc (Specialising in Solid State Physics), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT), Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, USSR Dipl. Phys. Eng. degree (With condensed matter physics). 1979 - 1982 PhD : Magnetostatic Waves in Periodic Structures." (Mainly Theory) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, (State University), Dolgoprudny, Moscow region, USSR 1990 Doctor of Sciences (DSc) Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Thesis title : Non-Linear Waves in Thin Inhomogeneous Magnetic Films." 1995 Professor in Condensed Matter Physics Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Career
1978 - 1982 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology : Part-time Research Assistant and Lecturer in the Department of Semiconductor Electronics. 1982 - 1985 Researcher, USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics (IRE), Moscow. Investigations concerning microwave properties of ferromagnetic materials, particularly thin films, and magnetoacoustics. Development of new magnetic devices. 1985 - 1990 Senior Research Scientist, Institute of the Radioengineering and Electronics (IRE), Moscow. Fundamental Research in magnetic properties of ferrites, especially non-linear magnetic films and non-linear spin waves; magneto-optic investigations of regular and chaotic domain structures in magnetic films; acousto-magnetic effects and magnetic semiconductors. 1990 -1993 Group Leader, Thin Magnetic Films Group, IRE, Moscow. Investigations concerning non-linear properties of magnetic films and magnetic multilayers, including surface and volume anisotropy, interlayer exchange; magnetooptics and thermomagnetic recording, magnetic phase transitions; permanent magnetic materials. 1994 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany. Microwave measurements, magnetic resonance, non-linear dynamics. 1995 Group Leader, Thin Magnetic Films Group, IRE, Moscow. Magnetic phase transitions, non-linear dynamics, microwave magnetics, magneto-optics. 1996- Head, Laboratory of Modelling of Diagnostic Systems, IRE, Moscow. Non-linear dynamics, modelling of neural nets, telecommunications, magnetic films. 1989 since now Assistant, Associated and Full Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, (Joint appointment with IRE) Department of Radiophysics and Microelectronics. Since 1998 Head of Information Science and Telecommunication Department at MIPT Research Interests
· General area of condensed matter physics and physics of magnetism · Magneto - optic phenomena · Fiber - optic and non-linear optic · Magnetic phase transitions and magnetic recording · Non-linear dynamics, solitons, chaos · Magneto - acoustic phenomena · Magnetic multilayers, hard magnetic materials · Magnetic resonance, microwave measurements · Microwave and magneto - optical devices · Anti-ferromagnets and magnetic semiconductors · Telecommunications · Information Science Teaching
· general physics: mechanics and optics · theoretical physics: electrodynamics of continuous media, statistical physics · electromagnetic theory · magneto-optics · theory of waves and oscillations · spin waves · magnetic recording · information networks Graduate and Postgraduate Teaching
Under my supervision 6 students have got PhD degree and 7 students have got MSc degree Current supervision:- · 2 MSc Dissertations · 2 PhD Dissertations International Status
I have been invited to co-operate on a number of projects which involve working abroad at prestigious institutions as a Senior Visiting Scientist or Visiting Professor. 1986 Laboratory of Magnetism and Optics, CNRS, Meudon, Bellevue, FRANCE. Technology of thin magnetic films. 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993,1996 Royal Society Research Fellow Applied Optics and Non-linear Photonics Group, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Salford University, Salford, UK. Non-linear phenomena, spin waves, magneto-optics and magneto-acoustics. 1989, 1994 Institute of Solid state Electronics, CNR, Rome, ITALY Microwave magnetics, non-linear dynamics. 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1995-1996, 1998 Research Fellow and Visiting Professor Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft Ruhr-University, Bochum, GERMANY. Microwave measurements and multi-layers. 1991, 1995 Visiting Professor, Physics Department, Yonsei University, Seoul, KOREA Magnetic phase transitions, thermo-magnetic recording. 1991 Visiting Research Fellow, MESA Research Institute, Twente University, Enschede, NETHERLANDS. Magnetic recording. 1992 Visiting Professor Insitute of Physics, University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil. Permanent magnets, magnetic resonance. Long-Standing Collaborations
Long-standing collaborations are in place with scientists from the following institutions: Physics Department, Salford University, Salford, UK Physics Department and Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Irvine, USA Institute of Solid State Electronics, Rome, ITALY Physics Department, Ruhr-University, Bochum, GERMANY Physics Department, Warsaw University Branch, Bialystock, POLAND Physics Department, Yonsei University, Seoul, KOREA Solid State Electronics Department, Huazhong University, Wuhan, CHINA Invitations
1985 Invited Lecturer at the International Conference on Surface Waves in Solids and Plasmas, Ohrid, Yugoslavia. 1989 Invited Lecturer at the International Summer School on Non-linear Waves in Solid State Physics, Erice, Italy. 1989 Invited Lecturer at the International Conference on Surface Waves in Layered Structures and Solids, Varna, Bulgaria. 1990 Organizer and Vice-Chairman of the First International Workshop on Non-linear Properties of Magnetic Thin Films, Ul'yanovsk, USSR 1991 Invited Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Korean Physical Society, Seoul, Korea. 1992 Distinguished Lecturer at the International Summer School on Applied Magnetism, Erice, Italy. 1993 Key Speaker at the Second Inernational Workshop on Nonlinear Magnetism, University of California, Irvine, USA. 1995 Co-Director of the Third International Worksop on Nonlinear Magnetic Films, Rome, Italy. 1996 Invited Speaker at the INTERMAG'96, Seattle, USA. 1996 Invited Speaker at the 7 International Conference on Ferrites, Bordeaux, France. 1997 Speaker at the International Workshop on Magnetic Films and Surfaces, Brisbane, Australia 1998 Invited Speaker at European Magnetism and Magnetic Applications Conference, Zaragosa, Spain 1998 Key Speaker at NATO Workshop on ferrimagnetic materials, Sozopol, Bulgaria 1998 Invited Speaker at International Conference on Surface Waves, St. Petersburg, Russia 1999 Co-Chairman of the Third International Conference on Optical Signal Processing, Moscow, Russia Special Responsibilities
1978-1981 Head of the Student Union in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny. 1984-1990 Honorary Secretary on the All-Union Regular Seminar Programme on Spin Waves Electronics, Moscow. 1982-1986 Referee and Senior Officer at the All-Union Patent Institute, Moscow, USSR. (Joint appointment with IRE). 1985-1988 Head of the Postgraduation Education Department, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. 1988-1992 Head of the International Relations Department at the Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. 1994 Together with Prof. A.D. Boardman Guest Editor of Special Issue on Non linear Magnetics in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics Also I am a member of the Organising and Program Committees of National and International Conferences on Magnetism and Nonlinear Dynamics. Existing Special responsibilities
1995 - Thin Magnetic Films Group Leader, IRE, Moscow, The team consists of 5 Researchers of different rank (3 - Leading, 2 - Senior), 4 PhD Students, 3 MSc Students. and Head of Laboratory of Modelling of Diagnostic Systems 1995 - Head of the Scientific Research Council on Applied Non-linear Dynamics, IRE, Moscow. 1996 - 1997 Co-Director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Non-linear Magnetics (Application is in progress). Prizes
1978, 1979, 1980 Best students scientific work in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. 1981 Moscow regional prize for the paper: Acoustic and Magnetostatic Waves in Periodic Structures". 1984 All-Union State Youth Prize for the paper on Solid-State Electronics. Languages
Russian, Ukrainian, English - fluently, German - well, French - reading and translating. Publications
List of Publications includes 75 papers in Refereed Journals and about 70 abstracts and papers in Proceeding of different scientific Conferences Current Funding
Five Grants from Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Ministry for Science and Technology and four pending Grants
1. Yu. V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Passage of an Acoustic Wave Through the Gap Between Piezoelectrics Coated with Insulating Films. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1978, v.20, No.5, pp.915-916. 2. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. The Propagation of Magnetostatic Waves in a Normally Magnetized Ferrite Plate with Periodically Uneven Surfaces. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1980, v.22, No.9, pp.1651-1652. 3. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Reflection of Surface Magnetostatic Waves from a Periodically Uneven Ferrite Surface. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1981. v.23, No.4, pp.724-726. 4. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Reflection of Surface Magnetostatic Waves from the Periodically Corrugated Part of the Ferrite Slab Surface. Sov. J. Telecom. Radioeng. 1981. v.26, No.11, pp.2282-2291. 5. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves Near the Periodic Ferrite Structure. Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. Lett. 1981. v.7, No.11, pp.686-688. 6. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Bragg Reflection of an Obliquely Incident Surface Magnetostatic Wave from a Periodic Part of a Ferrite Surface. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1981. v.23, No.12, pp.2138-2139. 7. V.A. Nikitov, S.A. Nikitov. Investigations and Design of Magnetostatic Spin Wave Devices. Soviet Foreign Radioelectronics. 1981. No.12, pp.41-52. 8. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Bragg Reflection of Surface Magnetostatic Waves from the Periodic System of Thin Magnetic Strips. Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. 1982. v.27., No.4, pp.513-514. 9. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, V.P. Plesskii. Damping of Surface Magnetostatic Waves Propagating Along Rough Surfaces. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1982. v.24., No.6, pp.952-954. 10. S.A. Nikitov. Reflection of Magnetostatic Waves by the Local Nonuniformities at a Surface of the Ferrite. Sov. J. Telecom. Radioeng. 1982. v.27, No.8, pp.1651-1653. 11. A.M. Mednikov, S.A. Nikitov, A.F. Popkov. Scattering of Volume Magnetostatic Spin Waves by a Surface Acoustic Wave. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1982. v.24, No.10, pp.1702-1705. 12. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Propagation of Surface Magnetostatic Waves in Ferrite Films Having a Periodic Semiconductor Structure. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1983. v.25, No.8, pp.1446-1447. 13. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Interaction of Acoustic and Magnetostatic Waves. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1984. v.26, No.9, pp.1589-1590. 14. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Interaction of Electromagnetic and Magnetostatic Waves. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1985. v.27, No.9, pp.1624-1625. 15. Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Diffraction of External Electromagnetic Waves at an Elastic Wave in the Ferrite. Sov. J. Telecom. Radioeng. 1985. v.30, No.5, pp.1027-1028. 16. P.E. Zil'berman, S.A. Nikitov, A.G. Temiryazev. Four-Magnon Decay and Kinetic Instability of the Traveling Magnetostaic Wave in Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Films. JETP Lett., 1985. v.42, No.3, pp.92-94. 17. Yu.V. Gulyaev, P.E. Zil'berman, S.A. Nikitov, A.G. Temiryazev. Nonlinear Effects in Propagation of Magnetostatic Waves in Normally Magnetized Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Films. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1986. v.28, No.9, pp.1553-1556. 18. Yu.V. Gulyaev, P.E. Zil'berman, S.A. Nikitov, A.G. Temiryazev. Instability of Strong Magnetostatic Waves in Normally Magnetized Thin Ferromagnetic Films. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1987. v.29, No.6, pp.1031-1034. 19. S.N. Gavrilin, S.A. Nikitov. Transformation of Waveguide Modes by the Periodic Domain Structure. Sov. J. Telecom. Radioeng. 1987. v.32, No.4, pp.888-890. 20. S.A. Nikitov. Relaxation of Magnetostatic Waves in Normally Magnetized Ferromagnetic Films. . Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1987. v.29, No.9, pp.1590-1592. 21. S.N. Gavrilin, S.A. Nikitov. Transformation of Optic Modes in Magnetic Waveguides with Labirinth Magnetic Structures. Optics and Spectroscopy. 1988. v.64, No.4, pp.869-873. 22. A.V. Vashkovskii, V.I. Zubkov, E.G. Lokk, S.A. Nikitov. Effect of a High-Power Microwave Signal on Propagation of Magnetostatic Waves in Ferrite Films. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1988. v.30, No.3, pp.475-479. 23. S.A. Nikitov. Magnetoelastic Relaxation of Magnetostatic Waves in Layered Structures. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1988. v.30, No.5, pp.895-896. 24. S.A. Nikitov. Attenuation of Magnetostatic Waves in a Normally Magnetized Ferromagnetic Film due to Spin-Phonon Interactions. Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. 1988. v.33, No.8, pp.948-949. 25. S.N. Gavrilin, S.A. Nikitov. Dispersion of Surface Magnetostatic Waves Propagating Near Rough Surfaces. Sov. J. Telecom. Radioeng. 1988. v.32, No.11, pp.2415-2416. 26. A.D. Boardman, Yu. V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Thin-Film Solid-State Devices Based on Nonlinear Magnetostatic Waves. Jap. Journ. Appl. Phys. 1988. v.27, No.12, pp.L2438-2441. 27. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov. Three- and Four-Magnon Decay of Nonlinear Surface Magnetostatic Waves in Thin Ferromagnetic Films. Phys. Rev. B. 1988. v.27, No.16A, pp.11444-11451. 28. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Magnetoelastic Love Waves. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1989. v.31, No.4, pp.626-628. 29. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov. Theory of Nonlinear Surface Magnetostatic Waves. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1989. v.31, No.6, pp.1076-1077. 30. A.D. Boardman, Yu. V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Surface Magnetostatic Waves. Sov. Phys. JETP. 1989. v.68, No.6, pp.1238-1243. 31. S.A. Nikitov. On the Theory of Relaxation of Magnetostatic Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. Lett. 1990. v.16, No.5, pp.30-32. 32. S.N. Gavrilin, F.V. Lisovskii, E.G. Mansvetova, S.A. Nikitov. Correlation and Spectrum Function Analysis of Irregular Domain Structures in Magnetic Films. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1990. v.32, No.6, pp.998-999. 33. S.A. Nikitov. Instability of Magnetostatic Waves in a Tangentially Magnetized Ferromagnetic Film. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1990. v.32, No.10, pp.1828-1829. 34. S.A. Nikitov. Scattering of Nonlinear Surface Magnetostatic waves by a Surface Acoustic Wave. Sov. Phys. Solid State. 1990. v.32, No.10, pp.1695-1696. 35. S.N. Gavrilin,S.A. Nikitov. Diffraction of Light by the Irregular Domain Structure. Optics and Spectroscopy. 1990. v.68, No.5, pp.885-890. 36. S. Vukovic, S.N. Gavrilin, S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Electromagnetic Waves in an Antiferromagnetic Plate Subjected to an External Magnetic Field. Sov. Phys. JETP. 1990. v.71, No.5, pp.964-968. 37. A.D. Boardman, Yu. V. Gulyaev, S.A. Nikitov, Wang Qi. Nonlinear Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. In Nonlinear Waves in Solid State Physics (Ed. A.D. Boardman, M. Bertolotti, T. Twardowski), NATO ASI Series B: Physics. v. 247, Plenum Press, NY & London, 1990, pp.235-258. 38. R. Kordecki, R. Meckenstock, J. Pelzl, H. Muhlbauer, G. Dumpich, S. Nikitov. Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigations of Spin Waves in Fe-Ni Multilayers. J. Appl. Phys. 1991. v. 101, No.10, pp.6418-6420. 39. M. Hoffmann, O. von Geisau, S.A. Nikitov, J. Pelzl. 3D-Imaging of Magnetostatic Modes Using Photothermally modulated FMR-Technique. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1991. v.101, No.3, pp.140-142. 40. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, Wang Qi, B. Jia-Shan, C. Ying-Shi. Multistable Magnetostatic Waves in Thin Films. SPIE. 1991. v.1519, pp.597-602. 41. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, Wang Qi, B. Jia-Shan, C. Ying-Shi, J. Shen. Dispersion of Nonlinear Magnetostatic Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. SPIE. 1991. v.1519, pp.589-596. 42. A.D. Boardman, B. Jia-Shan, Wand Qi, C. Ying-Shi, S.A. Nikitov. Propagation of Nonlinear Magnetostatic Waves on Ferromagnetic Films. Acta Physica Sinica. 1991. v.40, pp.1703-1711. 43. S. Vukovic, S.N. Gavrilin, S.A. Nikitov. Bistability of Electromagnetic Waves in an Easy-Axis Antiferromagnet Subjected to a Static Magnetic Field. Phys. Solid State. 1992. v.34, No.10, pp.1826-1828. 44. R. Kordecki, R. Meckenstock, J. Pelzl, S. Nikitov. Investigation of Surface and Bulk Spin Wave Modes in as Prepared and Annealed FeNi Multilayers by Spin-Wave Resonance. J. Appl. Phys. 1993. v.73, pp.6359-6361. 45. R. Kordecki, R. Meckenstock, J. Pelzl, S. Nikitov, J. Lodder. Investigation of Bulk and Surface Spin Modes in FeNi Multilayers by Spin Wave Resonance. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1993. v.121, pp. 524-527. 46. A.M. Neto, F.G. Gandra, J.A. Romano, A.M. Cortes, E.C. Silva, F. Galembeck, S. Gama, H. Vargas, S.A. Nikitov. Conventional and Photothermally Modulated Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigations of NdFe Powder Sample. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1993. v.128, pp.101-110. 47. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, N.A. Waby. On the Existence of Spin wave Solitons in Antiferromagnetic Films. Phys. Rev. B. 1993. v.48, pp. 15436-15441. 48. I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov, V.V. Tarasenko, C.K. Kim, K. Nahm. Critical Domain Structures in Periodically Inhomogeneous Magnetic Films. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1994. v.129, No.1, pp.226-232. 49. Yu. I. Bespyatykh, I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov. 3D Surface Precession Solitons (Surface Magnetic Drops) in Uniaxial Magnets. Phys. Lett. A. 1994. v.184, pp.198-203. 50. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, Q. Wang. Theory of Multistable Magnetostatic Waves. IEEE Trans. on Magnetics. 1994. v.MAG-30, No.1, pp.1-13. 51. A.D. Boardman, Q. Wang, S.A. Nikitov, J. Shen, W. Chen, D.L. Mills, J. Bao. Nonlinear Magnetostatic Surface Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. IEEE Trans. on Magnetics. 1994. v.MAG-30, No.1, pp.14-22. 52. S.A. Nikitov, R.F. Wallis. Theory of Nonlinear Spin Waves. Phys. Rev. B. 1994. v.50, No.1, pp.999-1001. 53. S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Spin-Wave Resonance in Thin Ferromagnetic Films. Solid State Commun. 1994. v.91, No.33, pp.209-211. 54. M.J. Park, S.P. Lee, C.K. Kim, K. Nahm, Y.M. Rim, C.M. Park, S.A. Nikitov. Electrical Resistivity of Amorphous Ferromagnetic Materials. J. Korean. Phys. Soc. 1994. v.27, pp.448-451. 55. S.A. Nikitov. Relaxation Phenomena of Magnetic Excitations in Ferromagnetic Media. In Relaxation Phenomena in Condensed Matter. Ed. W. Coffey. J. Wiley & Sons. NY. pp.432-477. 56. S.A. Nikitov, A.A. Sharafatdinov. Nonlinear Magnetoelastic Rayleigh Waves. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1994. v.137, No.2, pp.269-274. 57. Y.I. Bespyatykh, I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov, A.D. Boardman. Nonlinear Self-Localized Dipole-Exchange Surface Spin Waves on Ferromagnetic Media. Phys. Rev. B. 1994. v.50, pp.13435-13441. 58. Y.I. Bespyatykh, I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov. Surface Precession Solitons (Surface "Magnetic Drops" in Uniaxial Magnetics (Abstract). J. Appl. Phys. 1994. v.76, pp.6895(A). 59. Y.I. Bespyatykh, I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov, A.D. Boardman. Nonlinear Self-Localized Surface Spin Waves in Ferromagnets (Abstract). J. Appl. Phys. 1994. v.76, pp.6895(A). 60. S.A. Nikitov, Su Jun, R. Marcelli, P. De Gasperis. Modulation Instability of Surface Magnetostatic Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1995. v.145, No.1, pp.L6-L10. 61. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, K. Xie, H. Mehta. Bright Magnetostatic Spin-Wave Envelope Solitons in Ferromagnetic Films. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1995. v.145, No.2, pp.357-378. 62. Yu. I. Bespyatykh, A.D. Boardman, I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov. 3D and 2D Edge Precessional Solitons (Magnetic Droplets) in Uniaxial Magnetic Materials with Partial Spin Pinning at the Surface. Phys. Solid State. 1996. v.38, No.1, pp. 166-170. 63. I.E. Dikshtein, S.A. Nikitov. Inhomogeneous Surface and Volume Magnetic States in Ferromagnetic Films Close to the Curie Temperature. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1996. v.153, pp.151-183. 64. S.A. Nikitov, Yu.V. Gulyaev, A.D. Boardman. Reflection and Scattering of Spin Waves by Surface Roughness of a Ferromagnet. Waves in Random Media. 1996. v.6, No.1, pp.61-71. 65. J.W. Boyle, S.A. Nikitov, A.D. Boardman, J.G. Booth, K. Booth. Self-Channeling and Nonlinear Beam Shaping of Magnetostatic Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. Phys. Rev. B. 1996. v. 53, No.18, pp. 12173-12181. 66. A.D. Boardman, K.Xie, H. Mehta and S.A. Nikitov. Microwave Solitons in Magnetic Films (Invited) (Abstract). J. Appl.Phys. 1996. v. 79, No. 8 , p. 5365 67. S.A. Nikitov. Acoustic Wave Pulse Generation Under Nonlinear Interaction of Two Spin Wave Pulses. Jour. Magn. Magn. Mater. 1996. V. 164, pp. 172-174. 68. R. Marcelli and S.A. Nikitov, Editors, Nonlinear Microwave Signal Processing: Towards a New Range of Devices, NATO ASI Series, 3. High Technology - Vol.20, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996, 509 p. 69. A.D. Boardman, P.C.J. Putman, K. Xie, S.A. Nikitov and H.M. Mehta. Microwave Solitons in Magnetic Media: a Review of Fundamental Properties. (in "Nonlinear Microwave Signal Processing: Towards a New Range of Devices" eds. R. Marcelli and S.A. Nikitov, Kluwer Academic Publ. 1996. 70. Su Jun, S.A. Nikitov, R. Marcelli, P. De Gasperis. Parametric and Modulation Instabilities of Magnetostatic Surface Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. J. Appl. Phys. 1997. V. 81, No.3, pp 1341-1347. 71. S.A. Nikitov. Non-Linear Magneto-Optic - Microwave Interactions: A New Range of Devices. J. de Physique IV, Colloque C1, 1997, V. 7, pp703-706. 72. Su Jun, S.A. Nikitov, R. Marcelli, P. De Gasperis, J. Pelzl. Ordinal Excitation of Three-Magnon and Four-Magnon Processes of Magnetostatic Surface Waves in YIG Films. J. de Physique IV, Colloque C1, 1997, V. 7, pp457-458. 73. A.V. Kozhevnikov, Yu.A. Filimonov, S.A. Nikitov. Spectrum and Attenuation of Non-Linear Surface Magnetostatic Waves in Ferrite Films. J. de Physique IV, Colloque C1, 1997, V. 7, pp. 401-402 . 74. S.A. Nikitov, Yu.V. Gulyaev, V.I. Pustovoit. Light Pulses Investigations by Magnetostatic Spin Waves. Opt. Commun. 1997, V. 138, pp. 55-58. 75. I.E. Dikshtein and S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Love Waves in a Ferroelastic Film on the Elastic Substrate. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 1997, v.9, No 44, pp. 9227-9239. 76. J.W. Boyle, S.A. Nikitov, A.D. Boardman and K.Xie. Cross-Phase Induced Modulation Instability of Travelling Magnetostatic Waves in Ferromagnetic Films. J. Magn.Magn.Mater. 1997, v.173, pp. 241-252. 77. C.S. Tsai, D. Young and S.A. Nikitov. Microwave and Magnetooptic Measurements of Nonlinear Dispersive Magnetostatic Waves in Yttrium-Iron-Garnet -Gadolinium-Gallium-Garnet Waveguide. J. Appl. Phys. 1998, v. 84(3), pp.1670-1679. 78. A.D. Boardman, S.A. Nikitov, N.A. Waby, R.A. Putman, H. Mehta and R.F. Wallis. Effect of Third-Order Dispersion on Magnetostatic Spin Waves in Feromagnetic Films. Phys. Rev. B. 1998, v. 57(17), pp. 10667-10673. 79. L. L. Savchenko, S.A. Nikitov, A.F. Popkov and M.V. Chetkin. Amplification of Spin Oscillations Noise by Self-Modulation in a Traveling Magnetostatic Wave. JETP, 1998, v. 87(2), pp. 342-348. 80. I.E. Dikshtein, D.S. Nikitov and S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinear Self-Localised Surface Magnetic Polaritons in Ferromagnetic Medium. Phys. Solid State. 1998, v. 40, pp. 1885-1889. 81. S.A. Nikitov. Nonlinearity: Magneto-Optic - Microwave Interactions. Towards New Devices. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (accepted for publication). 82. Yu. I. Bespyatykh, E.H. Lock, S.A. Nikitov and W.Wasilewski. Phase Transitions in Uniaxial Ferromagnetic Film Covered by Superconducting Layers. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (accepted for publication) 83. M.Kaack, Su Jun, S.A. Nikitov and J.Pelzl. J. Magn. Magn. Mater. (accepted for publication) 84. S.A. Nikitov, Y.V. Gulyaev and Yu.A. Filimonov. Non-linear Microwave and Magneto-Optical Properties of Ferrite Films. NATO ASDI Series (to be published). 85. A.D. Boardman, P.Bontempts, I.E. Dikstein and S.A. Nikitov. Non-Linear Self- Localised Surface Elastic Waves in Ferroelastic Medium . Phys.Rev. B (submitted). 86. Yu.I. Bespyatykh, S.A. Nikitov and W.Wasilewski. J. Phys. D. Applied Physics (submitted).