- ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
 | Main domains of research include:
 | Investigations of processes and phenomena in gases and low temperature plasma, i.e. experimental and theoretical study of collisions between excited atoms and molecules that lead to spectral lines widening, excitation energy transfer, etc.. | | Laser spectroscopy pf metal and intermetal exciplexes, i.e. investigations of structure of these systems and collision processes in which they are formed |
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 | Linear and nonlinear laser spectroscopy of photochemical and photophysical processes with nanosecond time resolution. |
- SOLID STATE PHYSICS
 | Research within physics of condensed matter physics includes experimental and theoretical investigations.
Main domains of research include:
| New materials of highly anisotropic crystal and electronic structures (systems with charge and spin density waves). | | Electronic and magnetic properties of amorphous metal alloys. | | | Strongly correlated electronic systems (heavy fermions, Kondo alloys and high temperature superconductors) |
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| | Investigations of critical phenomena, including modelling of "equilibrium" phase transitions, as well as nonreversible processes like surface growth |
| Investigations in the domain of many body theories of low dimension systems (high temperature superconductivity, Pierls instability, charge and spin density waves). |
Materials investigated include semiconductors, superconductors, ionic materials, metals, metal glasses alloys and various organic and inorganic compounds.
- SURFACE PHYSICS
 | Research within physics of surface physics includes experimental and theoretical investigations.
Main domains of research include:
| Investigations of structural and electronic properties of clean surfaces, ultra thin films and assisted nanostructures. | | Investigations of effects of electronic confinement in small metal particles and low dimension systems – quantum well states. |
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| Structure and electronic properties of stepped (vicinal) surfaces and nanostructures built on them. |
| Structural and electronic properties of graphene on well defined surfaces. |
Theoretical investigations are focused on:
| | Dynamics of electronic excitations on femtosecond time scale. |
| Dynamics of atomic and molecular degrees of freedom in nanosystems. |
| Interactions between excited degrees of freedom in nanosystems and decoherence of nanosystems quantum states caused by intrinsic interactions or interactions with neighbourhood. |
- OPTICAL PHYSICS
 | Main domains of research include:
| Development of digital procedures to enhance applicability, sensitivity range and speed of holographic and interferometric methods. | | Optimalization of experimental systems based on time averages holographic interferometry in order to find modes of oscillations, resonant frequencies and frequency beating in real time. | | Distinguishing and classification of specimen by means of invariants and optical correlators. |
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| Optimalization of laser interferometer for measuring displacements and deformations of various types of specimen under the vacuum conditions |
- BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
 | Research within life sciences includes experimental and theoretical investigations.
Main domains of research include:
| Experimental investigations pf characteristic space scales in water solutions of DNA and other (bio)polyelectrolites by means of dielectric spectroscopy. | | Experimental investigations of complexes of RecA proteins and DNA molecules of characteristic helicoidal symmetry. |
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| | Protein-DNA and protein-RNA interactions. |
| Theoretical investigations of complexion of proteins and DNA molecules. Especially interesting are RNA viruses as systems with spontaneous self-construction. Investigations of DNA viruses as well, especially regarding the condensed phase of DNA molecule within the virus, depending on the presence of one- or two-valence ions. |
| Protein-protein interactions based on electrostatics of charges on proteins in solutions, and the dependence pH and salinity of solution (Poisson-Boltzmann). |
- STATISTICAL PHYSICS
 | Theoretical investigations of system whose behaviour is fundamentally determined by high number of particles. The investigations are focused on phenomena in scale invariant systems and processes, and are open for interdisciplinary applications from biology to social processes.
Main lines of investigations include:
 | Modelling of classical and quantum systems by means of renormalization group and related approaches and numerical methods. |
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| Critical phenomena in systems with long range interactions |
| The influence of disorder and geometry aspects of phase transitions. |
| Non-equilibrium processes, phase transitions in systems put of equilibriu |
- PLASMA PHYSICS
 | Main lines of investigations include:
| investigation of high pressure hot plasmas as potetial light sources | | diagnostics and modelling of processes within the laser induced plasma (nanosecond and femtosecond mode) | | diagnostics and modelling of processes within the radiofrequency plasma
| | investigation and application of plasma for material processing and formation of nanostructures |
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| optical emission spectroscopy of silan plasmas for photovoltaic applications
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| investigation of plasma for specrtroscopic analysis |
| transient phenomena and striations in plasma |
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