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Fyzikální Ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. (FZU; in English: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences) is a public research institute, oriented on the fundamental and applied research in physics. The founder of the institute is The Czech Academy of Sciences.

The 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.

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Successful observation of the asteroid 2012 DA14 with the Institute of Physics telescope

Monday, 18.02.2013, Michael Prouza

The telescope FRAM (F/Photometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor), which is operated by the Institute of Physics of the ASCR at the Pierre Auger Observatory close to the town Malargüe in western Argentina, has successfully observed the asteroid 2012 DA14. The asteroid flew very close to the Earth surface during the evening hours of February 15th, 2013, more specifically at 20:26 CET it flew less than 28,000 kilometers above the surface of the Earth, what is the record for the celestial body of this size.

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Oleksandr Stupakov was awarded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Wednesday, 24.10.2012
Olexandr Stupakov

On October 18th, 2012, the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Prize was awarded to Dr. Oleksandr Stupakov from the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for the individual postdoctoral project "Development of a new system for measurement of open-circuit ferromagnetic samples with controlled magnetization waveform".

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Spintronics takes the center stage

Monday, 14.05.2012

Spintronics is the leading technology for magnetic storage and sensing. In the near futurte, it is expected to provide high density magnetic random access memories and logic-in-memory architectures, opening a route to the new generation of high-speed, low-power instant on-and-off computers.

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The 80th anniversary of Professor Jan Fischer

Sunday, 13.05.2012, Pavel Kolář

Professor Jan Fischer celebrated his 80th anniversary on April 26th, 2012. He works at the Institute of Physics since 1954 and was for many years head of the Department of High Energy Physics (now Division of Elementary Particle Physics). During the period of 1985-91 he was the head editor of the Czech. Journal of Physics B.

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Fast manipulation of a magnet by light

Monday, 02.04.2012

A direct transfer of angular momentum from a circularly polarized light to spins allows to excite a magnet from its equilibrium state at sub-picosecond time scales. The discovery, allowing to manipulate spins in a magnet by short laser pulses, was reported by scientists from the joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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