International Conference PhysicA.SPb/2021

The International Conference PhysicA. SPb was held 18-22 October 2021 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Conference continues the tradition of St.Petersburg Seminars on Physics and Astronomy originating from mid-90s. Since then PhysicA.SPb maintains both scientific and educational quality of contributions delivered to the audience. This is the main feature of the Conference that makes it possible to combine the whole spectrum of modern Physics and Astronomy within one event. PhysicA. SPb/2021 has brought together over 400 academics from many universities and research institutes across whole Russia as well as from USA, UK, South Africa, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Australia. Oral and poster presentations were combined into well-defined sections among which one should name Astronomy and Astrophysics, Optics and spectroscopy, Physics of ferroics, Nanostructured and thin-film materials, Mathematical physics and numerical methods, Devices and materials for the THz and microwave ranges, Biophysics, Optoelectronic devices, Surface phenomena, Physics and technology of energy conversion, Plasma physics, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, Nuclear and elementary particle physics, Impurities and defects in solids, Multilayered structures, Spectroscopy of atoms and molecules and Physics of quantum structures. This issue of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series presents the extended contributions from participants of PhysicA.SPb/2021 that were peer-reviewed by expert referees through processes administered by the Presiders of the Organising and Program Committees to the best professional and scientific standards. This was made possible by the efforts of the Sectional and Technical Editors of this Issue: Prof. Petr Arseev (Lebedev Physical Institute), Prof. Alexander Ivanchik (Ioffe Institute), Prof. Polina Ryabochkina (Ogarev Mordova State University), Prof. Yuri Kusraev (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Sergey Nekrasov (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Nikolay Bert (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Nikita Gordeev (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Alexey Popov (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Prokhor Alekseev (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Mikhail Dunaevskii (Ioffe Institute), Prof. Mikhail Nestoklon (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Andrey Dunaev (Orel State University), Prof. Anton Vershovskii (Ioffe Institute), Dr. Vadim Evtikhiev (Ioffe Institute), Prof. Alexey Ustinov (St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”), Dr. Alexandra Kalashnikova (Ioffe Institute), Prof. Ivan Mitropolsky (NRC Kurchatov Institute - PNPI), Dr. Evgenia Cherotchenko (Ioffe Institute) and Prof. Dmitry Khokhlov (Moscow State University). The Editors: Nikita S. Averkiev, Sergey A. Poniaev and Grigorii S. Sokolovskii