Institute of Physics AS CR, v. v. i. (FZU) is a public research institute, oriented on the fundamental and applied research in physics. The founder of the institute is the Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic.
The institute premises in Pod vodárenskou věží streetThe present research programme of the Institute comprises five branches of physics: particle physics, the physics of condensed matter, solid state physics, optics and plasma physics. It also corresponds to the way how the institute is divided into major research divisions. Particle physics studies, through accelerator induced scattering processes, the elementary constituents of matter and fundamental forces acting between them. A closely related field is astroparticle physics which deals with the study of particles coming from the Universe. The research in condensed matter physics concerns mainly the dynamic and cooperative phenomena in disordered and inhomogeneous solid and liquid crystals and in the materials with reduced space dimensions. In the solid state physics the research is focused on new forms of solid materials and new physical phenomena and principles of microelectronic components. In the quantum optics, various types of sources of the quantum correlated photon pairs are developed and equipments for transmission and cloning of information stored in the properties of photons are planned.
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The premises of the division of solid state physics in Cukrovarnická streetThe institute was founded in January 1954 from the Laboratory of Nuclear Physics CSAS and the Laboratory of Experimental and Theoretical Physics CSAS (both Laboratories were founded in 1953). In 1979 the institute merged with the Laboratory of the Low Temperature Physics and with the Institute of the Solid State Physics CSAS. The latter was founded before the Second World War as the Research Institute of the Skoda factory. Starting from January 1, 2007 the institute status is that of a public research institution.
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