Tomáš Mates	Affiliation: Group of Dr. Antonín Fejfar @ Department of Thin Films and Nanostructures, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
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Date and place of birth:

November 29, 1975, Pilsen, Czech Republic
 

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Education:

1990-1994 grammar school in Pilsen, specialization - Mathematics and Physics

1997-1998 General pedagogical course - additional course at the Pedagogical faculty, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

1994-1999 Master studies at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, specialization - Physics of Plasma and Thin Films, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
(master thesis on Deposition of thin silicon films by magnetron sputtering)

1999-2006 Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, specialization - Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces
Experimental part performed at the Department of Thin Films, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences.
(doctoral thesis on Structure and Properties of Thin Si Films for Solar Cells - Studied by Combined AFM)

Career:

since 1999 - researcher at the Department of Thin Film (group of Dr. J. Kočka), Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences
2007-2013 - senior scientist in the R&D Department of Oerlikon / TEL Solar, Trübbach, Switzerland

Research interests:

• deposition of thin films (Si, DLC, metals...) by PECVD, PVD, evaporation...
• structure and properties of amorphous and microcrystalline Si films
• structure and properties of diamond like carbon films
• scanning probe microscopy techniques (AFM, STM)
• Raman spectroscopy

Languages:

English (very good)
German (very good)
Russian (passive)
French (passive)
Italian (passive)

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