Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of elemental and compound solids in vacuum and background gas environment; PLD of nanostructured films; laser ablation plume analysis via space-and-time resolved optical emission spectroscopy and imaging technique; characterization of thin and ultrathin nanostructured films using UV-Vis, SEM, XRD, AFM and Raman spectroscopy; investigation of nonlinear optical properties of nanomaterials.
Team members: Dr. Inam Mirza (Team Leader), Ph.D. Student Jan Hrabovský.