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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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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for Gerard Mourou, one of the idea fathers of Extreme Light Infrastructure project

Wednesday, 03.10.2018

Professor Gérard Mourou, one of the idea fathers of the Extreme Light Infrastructure project, won on Tuesday, along with two other scientists, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics, „for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”. Thanks to their inventions, which revolutionised laser physics, advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications. The other two scientists are the American Arthur Ashkin and the Canadian Donna Strickland

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TRIP like deformation of NiTi shape memory alloys

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.

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FZÚ has obtained more than half a billion for research in the area of solid state physics

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...

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The first shot of ELI laser

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...

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Four young scientists from FZÚ were awarded Otto Wichterle Award

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,...

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