Jirka HLINKA
Born: January 24, 1968 in Prague
Nationality: Czech
Languages: Czech, English, French, Russian
Affiliation and contacts:
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Na Slovance 2, CZ-182 21 Praha 8, Czech Republic
Tel: +4202 66052154, e-mail: hlinka@fzu.cz
Current position:
Head of the Department of Dielectrics of the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Professional experience:
1998 : Postdoctoral scientist at Nijmegen University, Netherlands
(Phase transitions in ferroelectric semiconductors, 3 months, in the group of T. Janssen)
1997-1998: Postdoctoral scientist at Nagoya University, Japan
(Simulations of ferroelectric domain structure kinetics, in the group of Y. Ishibashi)
1997 : Visiting scientist at Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble
(Selection rules for neutron scattering by phonons, 2 months, in the group of R. Currat)
1992-1995: PhD student at Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, Saclay, France
(Inelastic neutron scattering by phonons in modulated dielectric crystals, supervised by M. Quilichini)
Education and degrees:
1995: Doctoral thesis (Ph.D.) at University Paris XI – Orsay.
1991: Master thesis (Ing.) at Faculty of Physical Engineering and Nuclear Science of Czech Institute of Technology (CVUT Praha), Prague.
Current professional activities:
Nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric and relaxor materials with multi-component order parameter,
dielectric response of composites materials, lattice dynamics in relation with phase transitions,
ferroelectric and ferroelastic domains and domain walls, experiments with synchrotron and neutron scattering,
infrared and Raman and hyper-Raman spectroscopy, related experimental and theoretical problems.
University service:
Advising: Tutor of 3 PhD students and 2 Master students.
Regular teaching: Phase transitions in solids (1 semester per year, Master students at FJFI CVUT).
University sffiliation: External member of Solid State Engineering Department of FJFI CVUT since 1996.
Other professional activities:
Chair of the international symposium DYPROSO XXX - Dynamical Properties of Solids, C. Krumlov, 2005.
Advisory board member of the Dynamical Properties of Solids conference series.
Selection panel of the Scientific Council of the Institute Laue-Langevin Grenoble (2003-2006).
Honors:
Price of Hlavka Foundation (2001).
Wichterle award, Czech Academy of Sciences (2002).
Funded projects:
2008-2012 Dynamical nanoclusters in polar perovskite materials,
Czech Ministry of Education, MSMT KONTAKT ME08109
2006-2008 Domain phenomena in ferroic crystals,
Czech Grant Agency 202/06/0411
2000-2002 Anharmonic soft modes in ferroelectric crystals,
Czech Grant Agency 202/99/D066
1998-2001 New materials for micro- and optoelectronics exhibiting cooperative dipole effects,
INCO-COPERNICUS network No IC15970712
1997-1998 Grant-in-Aid Japanese Society of Promotion of Science
No 09595001 a P96337.
Publication activity:
Author of more than 70 scientific publications
Selected recent publications:
J. Hlinka, T. Ostapchuk, D. Nuzhnyy, J. Petzelt, P. Kužel, C. Kadlec, P. Vanek, I. Ponomareva, and L. Bellaiche, Coexistence of the Phonon and Relaxation Soft Modes in the Terahertz Dielectric Response of Tetragonal BaTiO3,
Physical Review Letters 101 (2008) 167402.
J. Hlinka, M. Kempa, Soft mode dispersion and 'waterfall' phenomenon in relaxors revisited,
Phase Transitions 81 (2008) 491.
J. Hlinka, Mobility of Ferroelastic Domain Walls in Barium Titanate,
Ferroelectrics 349 (2007) 349.
J. Hlinka, I. Gregora, J. Pokorný, C. Hérold, N. Emery, J. F. Marêché, and P. Lagrange, Lattice dynamics of CaC6 by Raman spectroscopy,
Physical Review B 76 (2007) 1445129.
J. Hlinka, M. Kempa, J. Kulda, P. Bourges, A. Kania, J. Petzelt, Lattice dynamics of ferroelectric PbTiO3 by inelastic neutron scattering,
Physical Review B 73 (2006) 140101.
J. Hlinka, T. Ostapchuk, D. Noujni, S. Kamba, and J. Petzelt, Anisotropic dielectric function in polar nano-regions of relaxor ferroelectrics,
Physical Review Letters 96 (2006) 027601.
J. Hlinka, J. Petzelt, S. Kamba, D. Noujni, T. Ostapchuk, Infrared dielectric response of relaxor ferroelectrics,
Phase Transitions 79 (2006) 41.
J. Hlinka and P. Marton, Phenomenological model of a 90 degree domain wall in BaTiO3-type ferroelectrics,
Physical Review B 74 (2006) 104104.
J. Hlinka et al, "Two-lengthscale behavior near the ferroelectric phase transition of Sn2P2S6",
Physical Review B 71, (2005) 52102.
J. Hlinka et al, Origin of the Waterfall effect in phonon dispersion of relaxor perovskites,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, (2003) 107602.
J. Hlinka, V. Železný, I. Gregora, Vibrational properties of hexagonal LiBC: Infrared and Raman spectroscopy,
Physical Review B 68, 220510 (2003).
J. Hlinka, V. Železný, I. Gregora, J. Pokorný, A. M. Fogg, J. B. Claridge, G. R. Darling, M. J. Rosseinsky, Vibrational properties of hexagonal LiBC: Infrared and Raman spectroscopy,
Physical Review B 68 (2003) 220510.
J. Hlinka, I. Gregora and V. Vorlicek: Complete Spectrum of Long Wavelength Phonon Modes in Sn2P2S6 by Raman Scattering:
Physical Review B 65, 064308 (2002).
