Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

It is a common workplace of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the AS CR, the Institute of Physics of the AS CR, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University and the Faculty of Science of the Charles University. The research is aimed at the Mössbauer spectroscopy of the systems containing nanoparticles of iron compounds and alloys, at magnetic and transport properties of superconductors studied by highly sensitive custom-made magnetometers of the RF-SQUID type, and at cryogenic fluid dynamics, especially quantum turbulence in ⁴He superfluid. The long tradition in the research into weak superconductivity is documented by the picture of the first SQUID magnetometer developed in Central Europe in 1974 (during the information embargo) [M. Odehnal et al., Československý časopis pro fyziku A 24 (1974) 356, in Czech]. This device was able to detect magnetic fields connected with the heart and brain activities.