Department of Dielectrics

 Main activities cover experimental and theoretical investigations of high permittivity insulators like liquid crystals, ferroelectrics, multiferroics, piezoelectrics, semiconductor nanostructures and low loss materials.

Our mission: Understanding the materials for which the frequency dependence of dielectric function can be probed by capacitance, waveguide or optical techniques. Experimental research in the Department of Dielectrics is mostly based on dielectric, infrared, time-domain THz, Raman and neutron spectroscopy, but also calorimetry, nonlinear optics and scanning probe microscopy measurements.

Our research activities are spread across our six principal research groups::

• Dielectric and IR spectroscopy
• Light and neutron scattering
• Liquid crystals
• Solid-state materials science
• Theory and simulations
• THz science and technology

For the detail information on the core research activities see the website of the Department of Dielectrics.