Dr. Karel Jungwirth became the eighth emeritus researcher of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The letter of appointment was taken over by the director of the Institute, M. Prouza, on December 19. On this occasion, we talked with the former director of the Institute of Physics about the pleasures and sorrows of scientific life.
New discovery how the information is recorded in anti-ferromagnetic materials with the use of particle spin.
As part of the Open Science programme, on November 21 and 22, 2019, a Student Scientific Conference took place presenting results of students’ study stays. FZU visiting students have been successful three times.
John Mangeri and Alexey Bubnov succeeded in the FZU Photo Competition.
On the 5th of November 2019, Lukáš Ondič received the Lumina Quaeruntur Premium awarded by the Academy of Sciences.
Dr. L. Ondic received the Visegrad Group Academies Young Researcher Award in Quantum Physics for his work on the diamond photonic nanostructures and for his accomplishments in the field of diamond color centers.
Photos of liquid crystals under a polarized microscope brought the second place to Vladimíra Novotná in the category of ‘Photogenic Science’.
The conference and workshop were focused on the latest discoveries in the area of crystal growth, epitaxy, characterization and applications.
Matěj Hývl from the Department of Thin Films and Nanostructures presented a contribution entitled “Nanoscale Study of the Hole-selective Passivating Contacts for High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells Using C-AFM Tomography“ for which he received one of the three awards for the best poster at the conference.
