Usachonak Maksim (b. 27.08.1987, Minsk), physicist, candidate of physico-mathematical sciences (2015).

Field of research physics and diagnostics of plasma.
The main directions of his scientific activity are the study of electromagnetic band gap structures with plasma inhomogeneities in order to identify key plasma parameters for controlling the propagation of microwave radiation in structures, which can serve as the basis for creating new high-speed electrically tunable waveguide microwave elements (filters, modulators, switches, multiplexers, etc.). ) capable of operating at high levels of microwave power in automated communication and radar systems, and research the interaction of high-power microwave radiation with an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma for aim of the experimental modeling of the parametric decay instability exciting conditions during microwave heating of the plasma, which served as experimental confirmation of a new theoretical description of the existing anomalous effects arising at microwave heating of plasma in TOKAMAK-type installations.
Usachonak maintains scientific contacts with foreign teams of the Laboratory of Plasma and Energy Conversion LAPLACE (France) and the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The author of more than 70 scientific publications, including 8 patents.

Laureate of the scholarship of the President of the Republic of Belarus to post-graduate students (2014) and talented young scientist (2018).

Основные труды:

1. One-dimensional electromagnetic band gap plasma structure formed by atmospheric pressure plasma inhomogeneities / V. S. Babitski, Th. Callegari, L. V. Simonchik, J. Sokoloff, and M. S. Usachonak / JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. – 2017. – Vol. 122, № 8. 083302 (8 pp.)
2. Delay of a microwave pulse in a photonic crystal / V. S. Babitski, V. G. Baryshevsky, A. A. Gurinovich, E. A. Gurnevich, P. V. Molchanov, L. V. Simonchik, M. S. Usachonak, and R. F. Zuyeuski / JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS. – 2017. – Vol. 122, № 8. 083104 (4 pp.)
3. Низкопороговое параметрическое возбуждение верхнегибридной волны в экспериментах по электронному циклотронному резонансному нагреву обыкновенной волной / Е. Сысоева, Е. Гусаков, Л. Симончик, М. Усачёнок / Физика плазмы. – 2016. – Том 42, № 7. – С. 638-643.
4. Observation of the strong anomalous absorption of the X-mode pump in a plasma filament due to the two-plasmon decay / L.V. Simonchik, A.B. Altukhov, V.I. Arkhipenko, A.D. Gurchenko, E.Z. Gusakov, A.Y. Popov and M.S. Usachonak / EPL (Europhysics Letters)/ Vol. 126, № 1. – 2019. – 15002.