Research activities

The most important research activities of the Faculty are:

• solid state electronics
• design of and data-processing from elementary particle experiments
• light elements isotope-ratios in environmental research
• studies of the variability of the Earth's atmosphere
• investigations of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of:
• thin films and multilayered systems of nanometric and sub-nanometric thickness,
• intermetallic compounds of rare-earths with 3-d transition metals and their interstitial solutions containing hydrogen, nitrogen or carbon,
• high-temperature superconductors,
• magnetic oxides,
• oxides exhibiting "colossal" and giant magnetoresistance as well as
• disordered materials
• fundamental research of elementary constituents of matter and their interactions via analysis of collisions of high-energy particle beams
• detection of ionizing radiation; design and construction of detectors
• determination of crystal and magnetic structures of the compunds resulting from phase transitions
• investigations of crystalline systems showing reduced degree of ordering
• modelling of plastic deformation and recrystalization processes
• search for new molecular compounds of the LED-type layer-structures
• dosimetry of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
• theoretical investigations of physical foundations of biological processes
• theoretical investigations of the solid semiconductors and semi-conducting nanostructures
• theory of electron transport and electron-localization in low-dimensional and low-ordered structures
• modelling of semi-conducing nano-devices
• methods and equipment for neutron measurements of geological samples
• trace element concentrations measurements via neutron activation analysis
• physical, environmental and social-economical aspects of nuclear energetics
• non-invasion methods of medical diagnostics
• complex analysis of industrial flows with the use of radiotracers
• computer simulations of quantum theory of quantum dots
• interdisciplinary applications of computer simulations in solid state physics, biophysics and social sciences
• and other

Scientific collaboration

• CERN, Geneve, CH
• DESY, Hamburg, DE
• CNRS, Grenoble, FR
• ESRF, Grenoble, FR
• CEA, Grenoble, FR
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, RU
• International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, AU
• Paul Scherrer Institute, CH
• INFN, Turin, IT
• Particle Physics Department, University of Berkeley, California, USA
• Charles University, Prague, CZ
• University of Linz, AU
• University of Antwerp, BE
• Cologne University, DE
• University Paris-XIII, FR
• Technical University, Vienna, AU
• Medical University, Graz, AU
• Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, ES
• Royal Polytechnic Stockholm, SE
• Institute of Nuclear Physics, St. Petersburg, RU
• Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, PL
• Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PL
• and others