Dr. Karel PROKEŠ, DrSc.

Field of interests:

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science:

Magnetism in d and f-electron systems

Techniques employed:

• Sample preparation: polycrystalline materials by arc-melting, single crystals by a modified Czochralski tri-arc method;
• Powder X-ray diffraction;
• Crystal and magnetic structure determination by Rietveld method;
• Orientation of single crystals by Laue method;
• Measurements of magnetic, thermal, transport and other related physical properties at low temperatures and their interpretation: specific heat in zero field and in magnetic fields, AC and DC magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance, Hall effect, ultrasonic measurements;
• High-magnetic fields: steady magnetic fields up to 20 T and pulse fields up to 60 T;
• Powder-neutron diffraction;
• Neutron-scattering experiments on single crystals under different environments: magnetic fields, hydrostatic pressure, low temperatures; polarized-neutron experiments, inelastic-neutron scattering experiments, use of group theory;
• Muon spin rotation spectroscopy;