Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Research subjects at department 12

Technology of material elaboration

  • Preparation of novel ceramic materials, e.g. EuTiO3
  • Single crystal growth, e.g. piezoelectric KIO3
  • Soft chemistry technology, e.g. filling nanoporous materials with ferroelectrics

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Time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy

  • Semiconductors for ultrafast optoelectronics
  • Charge carrier transport in disordered and nanostructures semiconductors

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Terahertz technology

  • Tunable materials and structures for THz applications
  • THz near field microscopy

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Liquid crystals

  • Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric structures in compounds with chiral rod-like and non-chiral bent-shaped molecules
  • Dielectric, electrooptic and optical properties and properties of relaxational modes in polar liquid crystals
  • Chirality and surface interactions of liquid crystalline phases
  • Defects in ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases and their behavior in electric field
  • Photoelectric effect in photosensitive liquid crystals
  • Search for liquid crystalline monomers for synthesis of polar dimers and polymers

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Ferroelectricity and phase transitions

  • Dynamics of structural (namely ferroelectric) phase transitions: experiment and theory
  • Multiferroic materials
  • Ferroelectric heterostructures and strained films
  • Polar clusters dynamics in relaxor ferroelectrics
  • Effective medium theory for dielectric and piezoelectric properties
  • Domain walls and domain structures
  • Development of crystallographic databases, structural characterization of novel phase transitions

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