The Institute also conducts extensive research in the field of biophysics, including the application of nanotechnology to medicine, in the field of spectroscopy and material characterization, including optically active materials and nanomaterials with potential applications in the energy and electronics industries.

Current work includes, among others, understanding in one, two and three-dimensional crystal structures the mutual influence of different phases of electron arrangement, such as magnetic, superconducting and other phases, on electrical, thermodynamic and optical properties. These works are of fundamental cognitive importance, but they are also used to model phenomena and to design devices and functional systems for potential applications in optoelectronics and digital technologies. A discussion of the results of scientific work currently carried out at the Institute is also included in the anniversary Information „70 years of Science and Innovation”.

The specialty of the Institute is research on topological insulators, low-dimensional semiconductor-magnetic hybrid structures, research on thin films and metallic, magnetic, semiconducting and superconducting structures. An important part of the research activity of the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is also the research of materials and devices applicable in the field of obtaining and storing renewable energy, such as new types of photovoltaic cells and optoelectronic materials with special properties.