New strategy how to protect zirconium alloys surface against undesirable oxidation in nuclear reactors by polycrystalline diamond film was patented: Czech patent 305059 :Layer protecting the surface of zirconium alloys used in nuclear reactors and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Layer for protecting surface of zirconium alloys, Patent Number: WO2015039636-A1.
A team of Czech scientists and engineers have been working on a new technology for coating Zirconium...
Inside the latest issue of ELI Beamlines Newsletter (No. 11) you may find the information about the L4 – a top-class laser system, the news from the ELI Beamlines research team, or the interviews with scientists Roberto Ziano and Robert L. Byer.
Newsletter (with many articles in English) can be downloaded here:
http://www.eli-beams.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Newsletter-11.pdf...
Thibault Derrien, a research fellow from the HiLASE Centre, has been granted a prestigious individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission.
The details on the HiLASE project website.
The team at the Institute of Physics was awarded the 1st place at the international conference Nanocon 2014 for the best poster on the topic 3D Diamond Membranes for Microfluidic Systems. The competition included about 250 posters from the Czech Republic and abroad. The awarded poster was presented by Dr. Alexander Kromka from the Laboratory of diamond and carbon...
Scientists from the Medical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc (M. Raška), Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine in Brno (J. Turánek), Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR (M. Ledvina) and Institute of Physics ASCR (I. Kratochvílová) in cooperation with Bioveta company (V. Vrzal) obtained the award for a development of the recombinant vaccine against Borrelia infection. This prize is awarded jointly by the Association for Foreign Investment,...
On 24 September 2014 Russian physicist Prof. V. G. Kadyshevsky died. He was born on 5 May 1937 in Moscow. In 1987-92 V.G. Kadyshevsky was Director of the JINR Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. From 1992 to 2005 he was Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR).
The obituary is published on the JINR website.
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Joerg Wunderlich from the Department of Spintronics and Nanoelectronics of the Institute of Physics ASCR, with his colleagues from the UK and Germany, was awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for the project “Spin-charge conversion and spin caloritronics at hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces”. The project has started in August 2014 and will run till July 2020. Besides the Institute of Physics, the other participating organizations are the University of...
On 29th September it will be 60 years since the world's biggest particle physics laboratory, CERN was founded. On this occasion, CERN Director General Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, arrived in Prague on a two-day visit. In the tight schedule prof. Heuer also found time to visit the Academy of Sciences. He met with the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) Prof. Jiří Drahoš. During this meeting the CERN Director General appreciated the cooperation...
At the end of the last year, postgraduate student Miroslav Myška from the Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology was awarded the Prize of the Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague for an outstanding PhD thesis of the II. Degree (typically three prizes in each degree from I to III are awarded annually).
Miroslav Myška was supervised at our institute starting from his research work up to his very successful defense of PhD degree...
Lukáš Ondič, PhD. student at Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, received the Best Presentation Award for his contribution titled Two-dimensional Photonic Crystals for Enhancing Light Extraction Efficiency from Luminescent Layers to The 2nd International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science held at Huntington Beach, Los Angeles, U.S.A. from December 13th to 17th, 2013. The...
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