Contact Information

  • Position Title: PhD student
  • Location: IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
  • Office: IT422
  • Telephone number: +420 597 329 622
  • E-mail address: lukas.kyvala@vsb.cz
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Research Interest:

  • Density Functional Theory
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Machine learning
  • Actinides
  • Lattice dynamics
  • Thermal conductivity
  • Magnetic anizotropy

Selected publications:

  1. L. Kyvala, M. Tchaplianka, A. B. Shick, S. Khmelevskyi, and D. Legut, Large Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy of Hexagonal Fe-Hf-Sb Alloys, Crystals 10, 430 (2020).
  2. L. Kývala and D. Legut, Lattice dynamics and thermal properties of thorium metal and thorium monocarbide. Phys. Rev. B 101, 075117(2020).
  3. J. Prchal, V. Buturlim, J. Valenta, M. Dopita, M. Divis,I. Turek, L. Kyvala, D. Legut, and L. Havela, Pressure variations of the 5f magnetism in UH3Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 497, 165993 (2020).
  4. L. Havela, M. Paukov, M. Dopita, L. Horak, M. Cieslar, D. Drozdenko, P. Minarik, I. Turek, M. Diviš, D. Legut, L. Kývala, T. Gouder, F. Huber, A. Seibert, and E. Tereshina-Chitrova, XPS, UPS, and BIS studium of pure and alloyed β-UH3 films: Electronic structure, bonding, and magnetismJournal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 239, 146904 (2020).
  5. L. Havela, M. Paukov, M. Dopita, L. Horák, D. Drozdenko, M. Diviš, I. Turek, D. Legut, L. Kývala, T. Gouder, A. Seibert, and F. Huber, Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of Uranium Hydride UH2 Stabilized as a Thin Film, Inorganic Chemistry 57, 14727 (2018).

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