Changing the colour of a crystal using light alone, without the need for electrical fields or mechanical parts. This is exactly what our team of researchers has achieved by demonstrating a novel method for controlling 3D blue phase photonic crystals.
Dr. Chang-Jong Kang from Chungnam National University, South Korea, visited FZU within the GAČR project SMTM-BEST to strengthen collaboration in the field of strongly correlated quantum materials.
Vladislav Pokorný, a physicist from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU), is a co-author of a study that won the prestigious ACS Nano Impact Award 2026. In it, researchers managed to build a tiny memory by placing single molecules on the surface of a superconductor.
On the night of June 30, a large survey telescope designed to map the ever-changing universe began full-scale operations at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. This marks a major shift in how we gather knowledge about our planet’s immediate and distant surroundings. Over the course of three nights, the telescope captures images of the entire southern sky—and it will repeat this process for ten years. As a result, we will obtain an astronomical amount of data and records of what changes in the sky and how. This will allow us to explore the universe in ways that were previously inaccessible to us.
Most wireless electronics would not work without varactors. An international team that includes Czech physicists has now developed a material for them that lets electronics use less energy. The study appeared in the prestigious journal Nature Electronics.
Between 25 and 29 May 2026, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) hosted Dr. Thomas Gouder, the principal scientist behind the development and operation of the Surface Science Laboratory Station (SSLS) at JRC Karlsruhe.
In recent weeks, CERN has delivered two results worth paying attention to. The LHCb experiment discovered a long-sought particle. The BASE experiment, for the first time in history, transported antiprotons outside the laboratory.
