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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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CTA Prototype Telescope - the SST-1M - Catches its First Glimpse of the Sky

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...

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Scientists from the Institute of Physics significantly contribute to nuclear reactor safety and fuel life cycle enhancement

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)....

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Conductance of an antiaromatic molecular circuit measured for the first time

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.

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EU grant for the research on terahertz magnetic memories

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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Three young scientists from the Institute of Physics have won the 2017 Otto Wichterle Prize

Thursday, 15.06.2017

June 6th 2017 at Villa Lanna, the director of the Czech Academy of Sciences professor Eva Zažímalová awarded twenty-three young scientists with the Otto Wichterle Prize. Three of them – Ing. Vítězslav Jarý, Ph.D., RNDr. Lukáš Ondič, Ph.D., and Ing. Jakub Vícha, Ph.D. – are employed at the Institute of Physics (IoP) of the CAS.

The Prize, named in honour of Prof. Otto Wichterle, the world renowned Czech chemist who also became the first post 1989 director of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is given to young scientists under the age of 35 for outstanding scientific achievement.

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