Upcoming Conference - September 2012
Phonons in crystals and nanomaterials -
progress in modelling and experimental techniques
Cracow, 20 - 21 September 2012
The conference dedicated to Professor Krzysztof Parlinski to celebrate 50 years of his scientific work.
PhD positions
We have open positions for PhD students in the field of computational material science. The PhD work will be guided by the professors of the Department and will be focused on computational investigation of crystals, nanostructures and surfaces.
Research fields
Our reasearch activity focuses on solid state properties of a broad range of materials including bulk crystals, nanostructures, surfaces, and disordered systems. The main fields of our research include:
- the basic structural, electronic, and phonon properties of crystals,
- phase transitions,
- electron-phonon interaction,
- phonons in multilayes and surfaces,
- thermodynamic and elastic properties of minerals,
- lattice dynamics in strongly correlated systems, superconductors, molecular crystals,
- shape memory and disordered alloys,
Current projects
- Magnetostructural phase transition in MnAs
- Disordered hydrogen dynamics in Mg(OH)2
- Phonons in disordered alloys (FeCr)
- Lattice dynamics in actinide compounds (UGe2)
- Experimental studies of the Verwey transition in magnetite (IXS, NIS)