Research

Fast manipulation of a magnet by light

Abstract

The discovery, allowing to manipulate spins in a magnet by short laser pulses, was reported by scientists from the Joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences.

Do we see the carbon atoms in carbon nanostructures?

Abstract

The present work of the Czech and Spanish scientific team consisted in a detailed theoretical analysis of the mechanisms by which the images of carbon materials arise in the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) and the atomic force microscope (AFM). The results were published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.