1. prof. dr hab. Marek Kisielewski
2. prof. dr hab. Andrzej Maziewski
3. prof. dr hab. Andrzej Stupakiewicz , prof. UwB
4. dr hab. Ryszard Gieniusz , prof. UwB
5. dr hab. Luba Uba , prof. UwB
6. dr hab. Marian Stanisław Uba , prof. UwB
7. dr Adam Bonda
8. dr Jan Kisielewski
9. dr Zbigniew Kurant
10. dr Piotr Mazalski
11. dr Iosif Sveklo
12. mgr inż. Antoni Frej
13. mgr Wojciech Dobrogowski
14. mgr inż. Eugeniusz Miniuk
15. mgr inż. Tomasz Zalewski

• Opto-magnetic effects. Ultrafast laser-induced all-optical magnetization switching, sample demagnetization and  second harmonic generation effects
• Opto-magnetic holography
• Phonons influence on magnetic states
• Plasmons driving magnetic, optical and magneto-optical properties
• Studies of magnetization statics, domain structures (by magnetooptical microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, synchrotron radiation) and dynamics (by femtosecond laser based techniques, Brillouin light scattering BLS spectroscopy, ferromagnetic resonance methods); micromagnetic modelling of these properties.
• Optical and magneto-optical spectroscopies
• Ab-initio calculations of electronic structure, magnetic properties, and optical and magneto-optical Kerr effect spectra
• Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations solving and numerical modeling
• Driving properties (such as magnetic anisotropy, interlayer coupling, Dzialoshinskii-Moriya interaction) of magnetic nanostructures by (i) specially designed deposition procedures; (ii) ion bombardment or light irradiation.
• Spin waves properties in patterned samples, spin waves “optics”.
• Laser-guided femtosecond spin currents

• Magnetic metallic thin and ultrathin films and multilayers
• Dielectric films, mainly garnets
• Heterostructures 
• metal-dielectric magnetoplasmonic crystals
• Magnetic amorphous microwires and ribbons
• Magnetic alloys and compounds
• Heusler alloys

High-level research labs, with equipment including ultrafast magneto-optical time-resolved spectroscopy (Spectra-Physics, Coherent), high-sensitive wide-field magneto-optical microscopy (Carl Zeiss), magneto-optical vector-magnetometry, ferromagnetic resonance spectrometry, Brilouin light scattering spectrometry, AFM/MFM techniques.
Characterization and post-grown sample modification techniques to studies of magnetic metallic, dielectrics and heterostructures within 2-600 K temperature and up to 7 T magnetic field.

Equipment | Department of Physics of Magnetism (uwb.edu.pl)

https://physics.uwb.edu.pl/wf/magnet/en/equipment/

European (5FP,6FP,7FP,Horizon2020) and national projects (NCN,FNP,NCBR,MEiN) in framework of large international cooperations.

CENTRUM SPINLAB CENTRUM SPINLAB, BEETHOVEN, COST CA17123, HARMONIA 8, HORIZON 2020, OPUS 13, OPUS 18, OPUS 19, SEEMAG, SONATINA, TEAM-UWB

Selected paper:

• A.Maziewski, R.Szymczak, Visual observation of phase domains in dysprosium orthoferrite, J. Phys. D:Appl. Phys. vol.10, 137 (1977).
•  R.Szymczak, A.Maziewski, K.Piotrowski, Domain structure in weak ferromagnets near Neel temperature, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 12, 227 (1979).
•  A.Maziewski, Unexpected magnetization processes in YIG+Co films, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 88, 325 (1990).
•  S. Uba, L. Uba, A. N. Yaresko, A. Ya. Perlov, V. N. Antonov, and R. Gontarz, Optical and magneto-optical properties of Co/Pt multilayers, Phys. Rev. B 53, 6526 (1996).
•  J.Ferré, V.Grolier, P.Meyer, A.Maziewski, E.Stefanowicz, S.V.Tarasenko, V.V.Tarasenko, M.Kisielewski, D.Renard, Magnetization reveral processes in an ultrathin Co/Au film, Phys.Rev.B, 55, 22, 15 092 (1997).
•  A. B. Chizhik, I. Davidenko, A. Maziewski, A. Stupakiewicz, High temperature photomagnetism in Co doped yttrium iron garnet films, Phys.Rev.B, 57, 21 (1998).
•  R. Gieniusz, H. Ulrichs, V. D. Bessonov, U. Guzowska, A. I. Stognii, A. Maziewski, „Single antidot as a passive way to create caustic spin-wave beams in yttrium iron garnet films”Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 102409 (2013).
•  M.Kisielewski, A.Maziewski, M.Tekielak, A.Wawro, L.T.Baczewski, New possibilities for tuning ultrathin cobalt film magnetic properties by a noble metals overlayer, Physical Review Letters 89, 8, 87203 (2002).
•  M. Kisielewski, A. Maziewski, T. Polyakova, and V. Zablotskii, Wide-scale evolution of magnetization distribution in ultrathin films, Phys.Rev.B 69 (2004) 184419.
•  A. Maziewski, P. Mazalski, Z. Kurant, M. O. Liedke, J. McCord, J. Fassbender, J. Ferré, A. Mougin, A. Wawro, L. T. Baczewski, A. Rogalev, F. Wilhelm, and T. Gemming, Tailoring of magnetism in Pt/Co/Pt ultrathin films by ion irradiation, Phys. Rev. B 85, 054427 (2012).
•  M. Sakamaki, K. Amemiya, M. O. Liedke, J. Fassbender, P. Mazalski, I. Sveklo, and A. Maziewski, Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in a Pt/Co/Pt ultrathin film arising from a lattice distortion induced by ion irradiation, Phys. Rev. B 86, 024418 (2012).
•  L. Uba, S. Uba, L. P. Germash, L. V. Bekenov, and V. N. Antonov, Electronic structure and magneto-optical spectra of LaxSr1−xMnO3 perovskites: Theory and experiment, Phys. Rev. B 85, 125124 (2012).
•  A. Maziewski, J.Fassbender, J. Kisielewski, M. Kisielewski, Z. Kurant, P. Mazalski, F. Stobiecki, A. Stupakiewicz, I. Sveklo, M. Tekielak, A. Wawro, and V. Zablotskii, Magnetization states and magnetization processes in nanostructures: From a single layer to multilayers, Phys. Status Solidi A, 211, 1005 (2014).
•  A. Stupakiewicz, A. Chizhik, M. Tekielak, A. Zhukov, J. Gonzalez, and A. Maziewski, Direct imaging of the magnetization reversal in microwires using all-MOKE microscopy REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 85, 103702 (2014).
•  A. Stupakiewicz, K. Szerenos, D. Afanasiev, A. Kirilyuk, A. V. Kimel, Ultrafast nonthermal photo-magnetic recording in a transparent medium, Nature 542, 71 (2017).
•  A. Stupakiewicz, K. Szerenos, M.D. Davydova, K.A. Zvezdin, A.K. Zvezdin, A. Kirilyuk, and A.V. Kimel, “Selection rules for all-optical magnetic recording in iron garnet”, Nature Comm. 10, 612 (2019).
•  A. Stupakiewicz, C. S. Davies, K. Szerenos, D. Afanasiev, K. S. Rabinovich, A. V. Boris, A. Caviglia, A. V. Kimel and A. Kirilyuk, Ultrafast phononic switching of magnetization, Nature Physics | VOL 17 | April 2021 | 489–492 | www.nature.com/naturephysics
•  M. Makowski, J. Bomba, A. Frej, M. Kolodziejczyk, M. Sypek, T. Shimobaba, T. Ito, A. Kirilyuk, A. Stupakiewicz, Dynamic complex opto-magnetic holography, Nature Comm. 13, 7286 (2022).
•  J. Kisielewski, P. Gruszecki, M Krawczyk, V. Zablotskii, A.Maziewski, Between waves and patterns: spin wave freezing in films with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, Phys.Rev.B (2023 accepted).