What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean
Isaac Newton

Liquid Crystals Group

Head of the group:

Antonii ADAMCZYK

Main objectives:

-phase transistions in liquid crystals

-selforganisation and photonic liquid crystals

Low Dimensional Structures Modeling Group

Head of the group:

Renata ŚWIRKOWICZ

Group members:

Leszek ADAMOWICZ

Michał WILCZYŃSKI

Krzysztof ZBERECKI

Piotr OGRODNIK

Main objectives:

-Half-Metallic Ferromagnets

-tunnel junctions properties including Kondo effect and phonons

Last conferences' posters

Symmetry Induced Half-Metallic Alkaline Earth Ferromagnets

Influence of Electron-Phonon Coupling on Transport Through a Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

Raman Spectroscopy and High Magnetic Field Group

Head of the group:

Wojciech GĘBICKI

Group members:

Cezariusz JASTRZĘBSKI

Mariusz ZDROJEK

Jarosław JUDEK

Anna KOZAK

Marcin MARCZAK

Main objectives:

-theoretical and experimental studies on carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires

-theoretical and experimental studies on GaN with magnetic dopants

-theoretical and experimental studies on ZnO and SiC

Last conferences' posters

Inner-shell charging effects in carbon nanotubes

Characterization of the individual core/shell silicon nanowires

Grants:

Supervisor's grant

"Carbon nanotubes characterization by Raman spectroscopy and Atomic/Electrostatic Force Microscopy"

Time duration: 08.09.2006-07.09.2007

Project manager: L. Adamowicz

University's grant

"Quantum modelling of materials applied to half-metallic ferromagnets"

Year: 2007

in joint collaboration with Chemistry and Materials Engineering Faculties

Coordinated by: L. Adamowicz

University's grant

"Otrzymywanie oraz charakteryzacja monokryształów, monokrystalicznych warstw czystego oraz domieszkowanego azotku galu, a także nanodrutów GaN"

Year: 2007

Main investigator: L. Adamowicz

Dean's grant

"Advanced methods of Raman spectroscopy for one dimensional nano-objects characterization purposes"

Time: till December 2007

Project manager: M. Zdrojek

(Inter) national research projects:

"Electrostatic and optical properties of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires"

POLONIUM project for years 2006-2007

Project manager: L. Adamowicz

"Charge and spin manipulation in carbon nanotubes"

Preparation for NanoSci-ERA

"Advanced technology for semiconductor infrared optoelectronics

Year: 2007

Coordinator: ITE-Warszawa