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The fifth summer school SFEL 2018 – School of XFEL and Synchrotron Radiation Users (27-31 May 2018) organized by the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (Košice, Slovakia) in collaboration with the European XFEL (Schenefeld, SRN) and other institutions was held in a small village Liptovský Ján, which lies on a beautiful foothill of the Low Tatra mountains in Slovakia. The school organized a competition for the best presentation given by a young scientist. RNDr. Vojtěch...

PhD student Ing. Ondřej Szabo won the 1st place in the Best Young Researcher Contribution Contest at the International Conference on Progress in Applied Surface, Interface and Thin Film Science (Surfint-SREN V), which took place in November 2017 in Florence. Over 60 young scientists took part in the competition this year.

In December, Ing. Szabo was awarded the 1st prize for the best poster at the...

Researchers of the Institute of Physics of the CAS and University of Vienna work together on novel graphene-diamond heterojunctions within the project supported by the Czech Science Foundation (GACR) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF). While the energy bandgap of 5.5 eV in the diamond electronic structure leads to the electrical resistivity as high as 1018 Ωm, graphene shows a zero bandgap at Fermi level behaving as a semimetal with extraordinary electronic...

The International Young Physicists Tournament took place in Singapore from 5th to 12th July 2017. The Czech team won a silver medal in a competition of 31 teams from all over the world. The Czech Republic was represented by students from Mendel secondary school in Opava who won in the national competition. Employees of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Dr. Hynek Němec, Dr. Zdeněk Janů and Dr. Karel Výborný, were among the organizers of the...

PhD student Petra Matunová from Institute of Physics CAS and Department of Physics at CTU FEL presented a poster entitled "Computing interfacial properties of polypyrrole on diamond nanoparticles for photovoltaic applications" at the International Workshop on Computational Nanotechnology (IWCN 2017, Windermere, UK). This poster was announced by the organizers as one of the five best student posters of the...

The prize for the Best Young Researcher Contribution Content was awarded to postdoctoral researcher Ing. Tibor Ižák, Ph.D during the international conference on thin films, surfaces and interfaces (Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces, SSSI), which was held from 21 until 24 November in Piestany, Slovak Republic. SSSI 2016 consisted of 26 invited lectures (from total 31 lectures) and...

Mgr. Ing. Neda Neykova, Ph.D., received the 2015 Rector’s Award of the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague for outstanding doctoral thesis. Her doctoral thesis is titled ZnO nanocolumns for thin film silicon solar cells with high efficiency. Neda Neykova was a PhD student both at CTU under the supervision of prof. Ing. Zdeněk Bryknar, and at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences under the supervision of RNDr. Milan...

Karel Tesař won Best Poster Award at the Materials Science and Engineering 2016 Congress (MSE), which took place in Darmstadt, Germany. MSE congress is organized by the German Materials Society (DGM) every two years. In 2016, two U.S. societies - Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) - had been involved in the concept and design of the congress. MSE 2016 consisted...

The team of scientists from the Institute of Physics was awarded the 1st place at the international conference Nanocon 2016 for the best poster on the topic Top-down and bottom-up fabrication of polycrystalline diamond-based photonic crystals. The competition consisted of more than 220 posters from the Czech Republic and abroad. The awarded poster was presented by Dr. Marián Varga from the Department of...

Prof. Jan Fousek, after a long disease, passed away on September 4 at the age of 86. Except for small interruptions, within 1958-1990 he headed the Department of Dielectrics of the Institute of Physics CAS. He was involved mainly in the research of domains and domain walls in ferroelectrics. He organised and chaired the 1st International Meeting on Ferroelectricity in Prague in 1966, establishing a series of meetings still active up to date. In 1979 he also initiated a...

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