Magnetic materials are ubiquitous in current electronics, sensors and power systems. Their high tunability offers a multitude of new approaches to non-volatile data storage, high-speed information transfer, energy recovery, drug delivery and sensing. Understanding the dynamics and fundamental phenomena in nanomagnets is crucial for finding ways in which electronic and magnetic order can be efficiently controlled using the least energy possible.
The research is carried out in two closely collaborating groups:
- Nanomagnetism and Spintronics group at CEITEC
- CEITEC Nano
Highlights
19 December 2025: Three Brno PhD talent awardees in our group!
Jan Klíma, Dominik Pavelka, and Kryštof Jasenský, who are all first-year PhD students in the CEITEC Magnetism group, were awarded the Brno PhD talent scholarship. The statutory city of Brno selects every year 25 young researchers for the scholarship, for which there were a record number of 155 applicants this year. Each awardee will receive CZK 360,000 over a period of three years.
Congratulations to Jan, Dominik, and Kryštof!
1 December 2025: Mie-enhanced k-resolved μBLS technique published in Science Advances
New publication: Krčma, Wojewoda et al. Mie-enhanced microfocused Brillouin light scattering for full wave vector resolution of nanoscale spin waves, Science Advances 11, eady8833 (2025)
4 March 2025 : Tomáš Molnár's research - teaser for CEITEC PhD School
1 June 2024 : [New publications] Unveiling the ultrafast structural dynamics of FeRh
In collaboration with the University of Postdam, and by using time-resolved X-ray diffraction, we investigate the fundamental timescale of domain nucleation processes during the laser-induced phase transition in FeRh. We also find ways to accelerate the transition by taking advantage of plasmonic absorption effects in nanostructured FeRh.
New publications:
- Speed limits of the laser-induced phase transition in FeRh
- Accelerating the Laser-Induced Phase Transition in Nanostructured FeRh via Plasmonic Absorption
19 May 2023 : New publications (field concentrators, magnonics, FeRh)
Multiple articles have been published recently on various topics - magnetic field concentrators, magnonics, and FeRh metamagnets:
- Microscale metasurfaces for on‐chip magnetic flux concentration
- Observing high-k magnons with Mie-resonance-enhanced Brillouin light scattering
- Phase-resolved optical characterization of nanoscale spin waves
- Propagating spin-wave spectroscopy in a liquid-phase epitaxial nanometer-thick YIG film at millikelvin temperatures
- Magnetic-field-controlled growth of magnetoelastic phase domains in FeRh
Winter Retreat January 2026