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CzechNanoLab User Meeting - May 12, 2022
01.04.2022
Dear colleagues,It gives us pleasure to cordially invite you to our traditional CzechNanoLab User Meeting organized by CEITEC Nano Research Infrastructure. It will take place on the 12th of May 2022…
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Czech physicists have been able to "move" a quasi-particle soliton
11.02.2022
Scientists from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in collaboration with their Korean colleagues successfully demonstrated an experiment to create and destroy solitons with non…
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Czech scientists become first to observe an inhomogeneous electron charge…
12.11.2021
Until now, observing subatomic structures was beyond the resolution capabilities of direct imaging methods, and this seemed unlikely to change. Czech scientists, however, have presented a method with…
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Dominik Kriegner received the Lumina quaeruntur award
05.11.2021
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic awarded six prizes in the Lumina quaeruntur program for the support of promising scientists of the younger and middle generation. Dominik Kriegner, a…
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Two FZU scientists have succeeded in the Junior Star grant competition
04.11.2021
Researchers of the Czech Academy of Sciences succeeded in the second year of the JUNIOR STAR competition of the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and made up half of the total number of supported 16…
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Halide perovskites: when defects do not matter
15.10.2021
Ten years ago, the most commonly used silicon semiconductor in photovoltaics gained a strong competitor - organic-inorganic halide perovskites. Since 2012, scientists have been able to increase their…
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Physics for the 21st century. Scientists will get new unique laboratories for…
22.09.2021
Multiple-purpose pavilion with clean rooms for advanced technologies and biophysical laboratories will enable scientists to use extremely sensitive instruments needed for their research. The…
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4th Bruker FTIR and Raman User Meeting
27.08.2021
WHEN:
November 4th 2021, event starts at 10:00
WHERE:
CEITEC BUT, Building S, Purkyňova 123, lecture hall, 1st floor
CEITEC Nano RI and Optik Instruments (BRUKER) inviting…
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Under the sun is the greatest light or How scientists innovate photovoltaics
26.08.2021
Ten years ago, the so-called solar barons ruined her reputation, the fields of blue panels in the fields instead of grain do not add to her popularity. However, photovoltaics itself is innocent. The…
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A new research group at CEITEC, led by Eric Glowacki, focuses on…
12.05.2021
CEITEC BUT welcomed a new research group. The team led by Eric Glowacki deals with neurostimulation, which means the use of electronic devices in the stimulation of the nervous system. They…
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Dipolar-stabilized first and second-order antiskyrmions in ferrimagnetic…
12.05.2021
Antiskyrmions are topological spin textures with negative vorticity. Like skyrmions, they have considerable technological promise, but have only been stabilised in Heusler compounds. In recent Nature…
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18th IUVSTA International Summer School on Physics at Nanoscale
10.05.2021
We would like to bring to your attention the next round of the IUVSTA summer school series on Physics at Nanoscale which will be held from 8th to 10th June 2021.The school traditionally provides a…
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Siemens Award: Recognition of the Entire Discipline of Spintronics
10.05.2021
Libor Šmejkal from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has won second place in the “Best Dissertation Thesis” category in this year’s Werner von Siemens Award. Libor won the…
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Online CzechNanoLab User Meeting - February 4, 2021
18.01.2021
Dear colleagues,Unfortunately, this time is not inclined to organize traditional user meetings. We, therefore, decided to organize our traditional meeting at least online.Following the merge of…
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Tomáš Jungwirth was awarded the MEYS award for science and research
02.12.2020
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, prof. Tomáš Jungwirth, Ph.D. received The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Award for Science and Research - the František Běhounek Award, from the minister…
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Antiferromagnetic artificial neurons responding to femtosecond-laser pulses
30.11.2020
Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University have just published in Nature Electronics their new experiment in which they succeeded to write…
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This year’s Rudolf Lukeš Prize awarded by the Czech Chemical Society goes to…
05.11.2020
An international independent committee has awarded the Rudolf Lukeš Prize for 2020 to Pavel Jelínek for his research of chemical properties of molecular structures on solid surfaces. It was the…
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Calcium and fluorine signals in HS-LEIS for CaF2(111) and powder—Quantification…
29.10.2020
Calcium fluoride powder can be used to quantify the concentrations of calcium and fluorine of the outer atomic layer in low-energy ion scattering.Low-energy ion scattering (LEIS) is used by…
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On‐Surface Synthesis of Polyferrocenylene and its Single‐Chain Conformational…
26.10.2020
Unlike intrinsically conductive organic polymers, which are central to organic electronics/photovoltaics, metallopolymers contain multiple redox‐active centers allowing extra control of their…
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Influence of experimental conditions on localized surface plasmon resonances…
29.09.2020
Dr Michal Horák (supervised by prof. Tomáš Šikola) has recently published in Ultramicroscopy an experimental study of the influence of the primary beam energy and the collection semi-angle on the…
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Dozens of Neighbours Came to Different Cukrovarnická Experience event
19.09.2020
Michael Londesborough's borane show and Martin Ledinsky's non-Newtonian fluid has become, without precedent, the biggest hit of this year's neighbourhood festival called The …
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Scientists have found a new strategy for the synthesis of polymers unavailable…
18.09.2020
In the Nature Communications, Czech scientists in collaboration with their colleagues from Spain introduced a new type of polymers which have been unavailable by means of traditional methods…
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The power of the sun and wind on TV
29.08.2020
Wind and sun - the two phenomena that have the greatest impact on the weather. Will they soon become the greatest energy sources for humanity? Not only this was discussed during a special broadcast…
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Young Czech physicist breaks with conventional wisdom inherited from George Ohm…
27.08.2020
In a paper published in Science Advances1, Libor Šmejkal with his colleagues from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague reports the discovery of a Hall effect…
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The European Union has included the NextBase project among its Success Stories
30.06.2020
The results of the NextBase international project, with the participation of scientists from the Instite of Physics, have brought hope for the restoration of European competitiveness in the…
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The computing programme “Jana” has connected the worlds of crystallography and…
22.05.2020
At first sight, studies in magnetism and crystallography don't have much in common. But for certain types of magnetic substances, primarily those under low temperatures, we can observe periodic…
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Kinetics of self-assembly
15.05.2020
Molecular self-assembly presents a viable approach for the atomically precise fabrication of organic layers with tailored functionality. Understanding the growth kinetics of self-assembled molecular…
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Czech scientists have contributed to the development of a new class of organic…
23.04.2020
A joint work by Czech, Spanish and Swiss scientists published by Nature Nanotechnology this week, introduces a new approach to the development of non-metallic conductors which could be used…
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Molecular k-Uniform tiling
20.04.2020
Tessellation of the Euclidean plane into regular polygons – tiles – is a mathematical concept for the description of intricate geometries associated with complex structures potentially displaying…
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CzechNanoLab offers its capacities to fight with COVID-19 and supports research…
07.04.2020
CzechNanoLab research infrastructure offers its capacity to fight with the COVID-19. We offer testing of personal protective equipment made of nanomaterials, e.g. analysis of nanofibre filters…
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Large magnetic gap at the Dirac point in Bi2Te3/MnBi2Te4 heterostructures.
27.03.2020
New possibilities for the lossless transmission of signals, which can be used, for example, in quantum computer processors, have been tested on new compounds by an international group of scientists…
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A step forward to realize quantum processors with new magnetic topological…
27.03.2020
New possibilities for the lossless transmission of signals, which can be used, for example, in quantum computer processors, have been tested on new compounds by an international group of…
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Optimizing the Size of Platinum Nanoparticles for High Oxygen Reduction…
08.01.2020
The reactivity of ultra-small nanoparticles and atom precise clusters consisting of less than 50 atoms depends not only on the nanoparticle size and on the surface to volume ratio but also on the…
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