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The Solid State Physics Department comprises of the:

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (Prof. Janez Dolinsek)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Laboratory (Dr. Franci Demsar)
• Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Biophysics Laboratory (Prof. Milan Schara)
• Dielectric Spectroscopy Laboratory (Prof. Adrijan Levstik)
• Electron Microscopy Laboratory (Dr. Albert Prodan)
• Atomic Force Spectroscopy Laboratory (Assist. Prof. Igor Musevic)
• Liquid Crystal Laboratory (Dr. Janez Pirs)

The main subjects of our research :

• liquid crystals (ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals external fields and restricted geometries, volume stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystalline gels, polymer dispersed liquid crystals)
• incommensurate systems
• proton and deuteron glasses and disordered ferroelectrics
• fast protonic conductors
• synthesis of new fullerene materials (charge transfer complexes including magnetic fullerenes, fullerene nanostructures and organic fullerene derivatives)
• fullerene magnetic properties, especially TDAE-C₆₀ and related materials
• thin films, surfaces, nanostructures and modulated phases

The techniques used are:

• one and two dimensional NMR and NQR
• nuclear double resonance
• electron paramagnetic resonance
• MR imaging in high and low magnetic fields
• dielectric spectroscopy
• transmission electron microscopy
• scanning tunneling microscopy
• atomic force microscopy (AFM) and atomic force spectroscopy (AFS)
• ellipsometry

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