Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

The main tool of our research is the experimental technique called time-domain terahertz spectroscopy. To see the webpage of the Laboratory of terahertz spectroscopy, click here. We put the emphasis on the research of:

• Ferroelectrics and related materials including namely investigation of the soft phonon mode dynamics in single crystals, ceramics and thin films in view of tunable THz applications

• Photonic crystals, metamaterials and tunable elements for the terahertz range

• Ultrafast photoconductivity in semiconductors and molecular systems (by means of time-resolved optical pump — terahertz probe experiments)

• THz microscopy and near-field imaging.

Staff (from left to right): Filip Kadlec, Vít Zajac, Filip Dominec, Hynek Němec, Christelle Kadlec, Volodymyr Skoromets, Petr Kužel (head of the laboratory)