Thin Films Group
What's new
- January 2023 Jesus comes back from Spain
- Jesus comes back to our group, after spending two years in San Sebastian with Sara Barja
- Jesus will stay here for one year with his own GACR funding (GACR postdoc outgoing). Then he will move to Spain for another two years with his MSMT postdoc project.
- His main topic will be combining surface science with electrochemistry.
- October 2023 Big project starting
- We are starting a large collaborative research project in October
- The title is Quantum Materials for Sustainable Technologies (QM4ST)
- Four institutes from Pilsen, Prague and Brno are involved, the total funding is 20M EUR for 5 years.
- The main focus is developing new materials with tailored properties.
- October 2023 New postdoc
- Marek Kuzmiak (left) comes as a replacement for Dominik Wrana (right)
- Interestingly, many people did not notice the change
- Marek is from Slovakia (Kosice). Previously he worked on superconductivity, using cryogenic STM.
- Marek has two tasks. First, he will take over the LEED I-V project. Second, he will revive our room temperature STM.
- October 2023 New student
- Sreehari Sreekumar joins us as a doctoral student
- Sreehari comes from Kerala (India)
- The main research focus will be on polarons
- August 2023 New funding
- Martin Setvin was awarded with the ERC CZ project "Polaron Tracking"
- The project will start in fall 2023 and last for 2 years
- The main aim is peforming proof-of-concenpts experiments that would help with winning a regular ERC project.
- October 2022 Major award coming to our group
- Martin Setvin won the "Neuron" price in the category young scientist
- It is the highest scientific award one can achieve in Czech Republic
- Let's keep doing good science
- August 2022 Dominik got a new position
- Dominik Wrana got an Assistant professor position in Krakow (Poland)
- Congrats, Dominik!
- The sad thing is that Dominik will leave us probably starting from March 2023
- Dominik did a great job here in the past two years, the publications are starting to come out.
- June 2022 New group photo
- Finally we have hathered to make a group picture
- The group has grown quite a bit in the past years.
- March 2022 GAUK project for Aji
- Aji and Pankaj Kumar have secured a student GAUK project for electrochemical measurements on perovskites.
- It is another collaborative project with the Surface Physics group.
- Approximately 30k EUR for 3 years. It is very nice money for students.
- March 2022 New PhD student
- Llorenc Albons will do his PhD with us.
- He is coming from Barcelona, Spain.
- He will work on surface chemistry on ferroelectric materials.
- December 2021 Christmas is coming
- The Christmas holidays are approaching.
- Everybody is hurying to finish the last experiments.
- We will shut down the equipment, make some modifications and bake during the holidays.
- December 2021 Michal Alexandridis has successfully defended his PhD Thesis
- His Thesis was focused on kinetics of metal atoms on silicon sucfaces
- He is heading to the financial sector.
- Congrats, Michal!
- December 2021 Jesus is leaving to Spain
- Jesus Redondo has beed awarded by one of the new GACR Postdoc projects.
- Jesus will spend two years in San Sebastian and then return back for one year.
- The project is focused on hematite and alumina
- November 2021 Two undergraduate students join us for research projects
- Helena Novakova and Nikola Ciganikova will works with us on student projects
- Helena will study bulk oxidation and reduction of KTaO3
- Nikola will work with organic molecules
- October 2021 Our DFT collaborators visited us in Prague
- Michele Reticcioli and Florian Ellinger came for one week within the billateral project "Polarity for Polarons"
- We have discussed many running an future collaborations
- September 2021 Attended a real conference!
- We joined the Annual Meeting of the Austrian and Swiss Physical Society in Innsbruck
- More than 600 participants, everybody was really happy about holding an in-person meeting after such a long time
- Innsbruck is a really great place, we met with many Austrian collaborators
- July 2021 Nice publications
- February 2021 New group member
- Dominik Wrana is joining our group as a postdoc, starting from February
- Dominik comes from the Jagellonian University of Krakow, Poland
- He has lots of experience from various places like Juelich (Germany) or Leoben (Austria)
- His main expertise is SPM, Kelvin Probe Microscopy, SEM, TEM
- 2020 - New STM/AFM instrument finally works!
- Commercial UHV system from ScinetaOmicron, called POLAR
- Equipped with the Tribus head
- Separate chamber for preparing samples
- The head performance seems very impressive compared to the older generation of SPMs
- December 2020 New group member
- Aji Alexander is joining our group as a PhD student, starting from December
- Aji comes from the Raman Institute, India
- He says it's cold here :-)
- July 2020 New group member
- Jesus Redondo is joining us as a postdoc, starting from August
- Jesus has just finished his doctoral Thesis at ASCR in Prague
- July 2020 We have contributed to some nice papers
- PNAS 117, 14827-14837 (2020), Resolving the adsorption of molecular O2 on the rutile TiO2(110) surface by noncontact atomic force microscopy
- Rev. Sci. Instr. 91, 074701 (2020), Fast low-noise transimpedance amplifier for scanning tunneling microscopy and beyond
- July 2020 New group member
- Tomas Dolak will do his diploma Thesis with us
- His main task will be LEED I-V on KTaO3 (001), using the VipEr LEED package
- 2.1. 2020 New group member - Martin Setvin
- Martin comes back from TU Wien (Austria) after spending there 8 years as a postdoc and assistant professor.
- Martin will bring new research topics and experimental approaches to the group.
- November 2019 - Funding acquired
- 1.3 M EUR from GACR EXPRO for 5 years
- Focused on perovskite surfaces and their use in renewable energy applications; special emphasis on ferroelectricity and its possible uses in energy conversion
- Joint project of Martin Setvin, Josef Myslivecek and Pavel Kocan
- September 2019 - Funding acquired
- 0.5 M EUR from GAUK PRIMUS for 3 years
- The main focus of the PRIMUS program is opening new research topics and introducing new approaches to the university
- nc-AFM, fundamental understanding of STO and KTO surfaces, their electronic properties and surface stability