Born in Saratov, USSR, in 1989, Dmitry Fedyanin studied electrical engineering at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russian Federation). In 2013 he earned a PhD in physics from the same institute, where he worked until 2022 as a senior scientist.
He contributed to loss compensation in highly confined plasmonic waveguides and to coherent plasmon emission in nanolasers, utilizing electrical pumping schemes. He expanded his interests to quantum photonics based on color centers in diamond and silicon carbide, developing a phenomenological theory to demonstrate the possibility of bright electroluminescence from color centers. He then investigated the associated single-photon emission dynamics and electrical charge state control.
His research interests encompassed nanoscale and quantum optoelectronics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, nanoelectronics, semiconductor physics, integrated photonics, single-photon/single-electron processes, color centers in diamond and related materials, and numerical simulation in photonics and electronics.
He received numerous research awards, including the gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad “Tuymaada” in 2006 (Yakutsk, Russian Federation). He was a recipient of the Grants of the President of the Russian Federation, which he returned in 2022 in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In February 2023 he received a grant of the Walter Benjamin Program of the German Research Foundation with a project on “Pulsed electrically driven single-photon sources on diamond.”
We deeply regret the tragic accident and the death of Dmitry Fedyanin. We mourn the loss of a talented young scientist, a close colleague, and a friend with a bright mind. We would like to express our sincere condolences to Dmitry’s family and friends.
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