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.
Tuesday, 07.08.2018
FZU researchers recently introduced a new transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) like deformation mechanism activated in NiTi shape memory alloys at elevated temperatures and stresses. The mechanism involving coupled martensitic transformation, deformation twinning and dislocation slip explains gradual loss of functional behavior of NiTi alloys with increasing temperature and stress, refinement of microstructure and excellent deformability at very high stresses.
Tuesday, 10.07.2018
The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZÚ) has succeeded in a demanding call “Excelentní výzkum” (Excellent Research) in the Operational Programme Science, Research and Education (OP VVV) with SOLID21 Project and it will receive more than half a billion CZK for the development of a significant...
Tuesday, 03.07.2018
The unique L3-HAPLS laser system, developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for ELI Beamlines, was on July 2, 2018, ceremonially launched. After evaluation by an international peer review group, it has been declared fully integrated and operational. The system is ready for integration with the experimental systems and...
Tuesday, 12.06.2018
Eva Zažímalová, the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has given the Otto Wichterle Award to twenty two young scientists in villa Lanna in Prague. Four of them were from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences - Mgr. Jan Ebr, Ph.D., RNDr. Hana Lísalová,...
Wednesday, 16.05.2018
Czech scientists, in cooperation with Chinese colleagues, were the first to show the structure and determine mobility of ionic sodium hydrates, clusters made of water molecules and sodium atoms, involved in a number of significant physical, chemical and biological processes. Thanks to a special method, they confirmed that the mobility...
Radio Praha in English, 4.5.2018.
Experts from the Institute of...
Prague Daily Monitor, 6.3.2018.
Czech astronomer Martin Masek...
FLEET.ORG, 19.8.2017.
There is considerable excitement about...
The Czech Academy of Sciences, 9.8.2017.
Over the past few...
