Research Interests

My research work is mostly concerned with the investigation of microscopic origin of physical properties in crystals:

• Physics of piezoelectric materials
  (getting inside the microscopic nature of piezoelectric effect)

• Perturbation crystallography
  (investigation of microscopic crystal response to applied external electric field)

• High precision single crystal diffractometry
  (use of synchrotron radiation to study the fine features of crystal structures)
  

• Electron density in crystals
  (characterization of chemical bonds in crystals)

• Time-resolved X-ray diffraction

• Fine structural features in perovskite based ferroelectrics
  (application of high-resolution X-ray diffraction to reveal the symmetry of a single ferroelectric domain)

Extinction direction in birefringent crystals: see more details

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