Antonín Šimůnek from the Institute of Physics has recently published a significant paper about the reason for hardness of crystals. Don Monroe explains the Šimůnek approach in the note in Physical Review Focus.
Institute of Physics is involved in various high energy physics projects (HEP). HEPHY - Institut für Hochenergiephysik - Halbleiter - seminars, 27.2.2007.
In the following presentation the overview of these HEP projects is given.