Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Successful participation in the international conference of young scientists

RNDr. Jan Čermák, PhD. has received award at the 3rd International Forum on Multidisciplinary Education and Research for Energy Science, held from 9th to 14th December 2010 on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan.

The ”best presentation“ award was given for the contribution “Scanning Probe Microscopy on Organic Heterostructures for Photovoltaics“, in which he used atomic force microscopy to measure structure and local electronic properties of mixed layers of fullerene and conductive polymer. These layers are now studied all over the world for their utilization for cheap photovoltaic solar energy conversion and new records of efficiency are often being announced. Research of Dr. Čermáka led to identification of the phase segregation of the components as one of the mechanisms limiting the efficiency.

Dr . Čermák has graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles university and defended a Ph.D. thesis in September 2010. Dr. Čermák presently works on research of organic semiconductors and nanostructures in the Institute of Physics ASCR.

Discovery in the research of spin-transistors

An international team of researchers has reported an experimental demonstration of a transistor whose functionality is based on electron’s spin. The work was published in the December 24th issue of the Science journal. The team is formed by physicists from the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in the Czech Republic, the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory and University of Cambridge and Nottingham in the UK, and Texas A&M University in the US. Mr. Tomáš Jungwirth has been awarded the European Research Council Advanced Grant 2011-2015.

Mrs. Vladimíra Petráková awarded in the MRS Fall Meeting 2010, Boston, U.S.A.

Mrs. Vladimíra Petráková, has been awarded the Young Investigator Prize for the Best Oral Presentation in Symposium A, Diamond Electronics and Bioelectronics: From Fundamental to Applications IV, Material Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting in Boston, U.S.A.

Bertaut prize 2009

At the August 18, 2009 celebrating ceremony during the International Crystallographic Conference ECA in Istanbul Dr. Lukáš Palatinus received the Bertaut prize. The award is granted annually by the European crystallographic association and the European neutron scattering association to young scientists for major contributions to these subjects.

EURYI Award

Dr. Martin Schnabl is one of 20 winners of the prestige EURYI Awards (European Young Investigator Awards) for year 2007. He presented the project "Exploring String Field Theory - Can It Explain Quantum Birth of the Universe or Properties of Elementary Particles?".