Currently, the Academy of Europe has about 3000 members from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law. Besides Tomas Jungwirth, Czech Republic has two other members of this section (Jiří Bičák a Pavel Exner).
Efficient spin-charge and charge-spin converters are needed for future technologies allowing to integrate the so far isolated worlds of semiconductor and magnetic devices.
The unique status of the FUNBIO centre in a present academic sphere lays not only in the topmost technical equipment but mainly in very specific, useful and nowadays frequently required physical view on biomaterials.
A book Essentials of Econophysics Modelling from Dr František Slanina is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling economic and social phenomena. It covers the discipline of econophysics, which creates an interface between physics and economics.
In order to shake a magnet electrically without involving an electro-magnet or another permanent magnet, one has to step out of the realm of classical physics and enter the relativistic quantum mechanics. Researchers from the Institute of Physics, in collaboration with researchers from Cambridge, Nottingham, and Mainz, have discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows manipulating the state of a magnet by electric fields.
Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in collaboration with researchers from Berkeley and Barcelona, have demonstrated that it is possible to use another type of magnetic materials, the so-called antiferromagnets to store information. Antiferromagnetic materials are magnetic inside, however, their microscopic magnetic moments sitting on individual atoms alternate between two opposite orientations.
Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the ASCR, together with colleagues from Spain and France, presented in the journal Nature Communications new theory of the origin of polyaromatic hydrocarbon molecules in the universe. According to the new theory, these molecules are formed by hydrogen etching of the graphitic surface of the stardust particles.
Scientists from the Institute of Physics contributed to the development of a new approach to the preparation of highly tunable microwave dielectrics. It is promising for applications in microwave electronics, e.g. in cellular phones.
Scientists from the Institute of Physics have a contribution to a new significant discovery. Using the modified microscope, they open new approaches to study friction at the atomic level. A paper concerning the topic was published in Physical Review Letters.
