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.
Friday, 22.09.2017
In a paper published in Science on 22 September 2017, the Pierre Auger Collaboration reports observational evidence demonstrating that cosmic rays with energies a million times greater than that of the protons accelerated in the Large Hadron Collider come from much further away than from our own Galaxy. Ever...
Tuesday, 12.09.2017, Dušan Mandát, Petr Trávníček
On Thursday, 31 August, 2017, a prototype telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the SST-1M, recorded its first events originating from space, while undergoing testing at the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN) in Krakow, Poland. The SST-1M is proposed as one of CTA’s Small-Sized...
Monday, 04.09.2017, Irena Kratochvílová
Experts from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and Westinghouse have developed a new method of surface protection of zirconium cladded fuel elements that involves gas phase deposition of anti-corrosive polycrystalline diamond (PCD)....
Friday, 21.07.2017
A collaboration of Japanese and Czech researchers has realized a molecular circuit involving an antiaromatic molecule for the first time. Antiaromatic molecules have 4n electrons in the π system. They had been predicted decades ago to have remarkable electron transport properties but their instability and difficult synthesis had prevented their study until now. In their paper published in Nature Communications, the authors explain the origin of this high conductance compared to the aromatic counterpart.
Thursday, 20.07.2017
European research project coordinated by the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences was selected in a fierce competition within the Future and Emerging Technologies program that is part of the Excellence pillar of the Framework Programme Horizon 2020. The project ASPIN is based on a work published last year in Science which opened a new research and development direction towards ultrafast and energy efficient memories based on so called antiferromagnets.
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The Czech Academy of Sciences, 9.8.2017.
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Prague Daily Monitor, 9.6.2017.
A world-unique laser system has...
Radio Praha - English version, 13.1.2017.
Czech scientists have...
