PVD Laboratory

2020

• Deposition system Flexilab from HVM
  Despite its compact design the Flexilab system developed by HVM Plasma is highly versatile for R&D deposition of next-gen functional coatings.
  November 15, 2020
• Quarantine has been a benefit to article writing, Coatings journal has just published our latest one
  Our latest article about industrially sputtered Ta-B-C coatings has just been published in Coatings journal.
  August 31, 2020
• New article chosen as a "Featured Article" in Journal of Applied Physics
  The Editors felt that our article was one of the journal's best, and have chosen to promote it as a Featured Article.
  July 29, 2020
• Matej Fekete's Ph.D. Thesis Defense
  Matej Fekete successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and became a doctor in Plasma Physics.
  June 19, 2020
• Postdoctoral researcher position
  An opportunity to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in the field of PVD deposition and thin film analysis at PVDLab.
  May 21, 2020
• Visitor: prof. André Anders
  Professor André Anders from Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering in Germany accepted our invitation to Brno.
  March 09, 2020
• Visit from Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  Julian Held, Sascha Monjé and professor Achim von Keudell from Ruhr-Universität Bochumm in Germany.
  March 04, 2020
• Workshop: PSE Satellite 2020
  In February 2020, we attended the Workshop on Plasma-Based Synthesis of Nanomaterials, which was held in Prague.
  February 10, 2020
• Doors Open Days at Sci MUNI
  We presented study program Physics and the work in the laboratories.
  January 25, 2020
• New Open Access publication in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
  In Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics is available our newest Open Access publication.
  January 15, 2020

2019

• New publication in Surface and Coatings Technology
  In the Surface and Coatings Technology journal was published the new article by doctor S. Mirzaei.
  December 17, 2019
• PhD defence of Saeed Mirzaei
  Member of our team and our colleague Saeed Mirzaei defended his PhD thesis.
  December 09, 2019
• New open access publication in Plasma Sources Science and Technology
  New article was published in the Plasma Sources Science and Technology journal.
  December 05, 2019
• Fall meeting at MUNI
  We hosted a meeting of three research groups dealing with the preparation and analysis of thin films in the last week of November.
  November 25, 2019
• Visitor: prof. Daniel Lundin from Linkoping University
  Professor Daniel Lundin accepted our invitation to Brno, and he presented three lectures
  November 12, 2019
• Visitor: Docent Tomas Nyrberg from Uppsala University
  Doc. Tomas Nyrberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) accepted an invitation from doc. Souček and visited us at the end of October.
  October 30, 2019
• Workshop at RWTH Aachen
  At the beginning of October 2019 three of our co-workers participated in a workshop at RWTH Aachen University.
  October 11, 2019
• Conference: PLATHINIUM
  Prof. Vašina and dr. Hnilica attended the Plasma Thin film International Union Meeting (PLATHINIUM).
  October 01, 2019
• Night of Scientists 2019
  We opened the door to our laboratory on Friday 27th of September 2019 during the Night of Scientists 2019.
  September 27, 2019
• PhD Day 2019
  We presented our research group during the PhD Day 2019 on Thursday, September the 19th for a possible PhD students.
  September 19, 2019
• Open Day MUNI 2019
  We presented study program Physics and the work in our laboratories on Friday, September the 13th for the high school students.
  September 13, 2019
• Postdoctoral researcher position
  An opportunity to apply for a postdoctoral researcher position in the field of PVD deposition and analysis of advanced thin films is now open at PVDLab.
  September 12, 2019
• Conference: AEPSE 2019
  Matej Fekete talked about influence of ionized sputtered species on hysteresis behavior of reactive HiPIMS at the 12th Asian-European International Conference on PLasma Surface Engineering, which was held in Jeju (South Korea).
  September 02, 2019
• New publication in Surface and Coating Technology
  Check out our latest publication in Surface and Coating Technology journal.
  August 30, 2019
• Conference: PPPS 2019
  Dr Klein attended the IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science Conference PPPS 2019.
  July 09, 2019
• Dean’s prize
  Dean’s prize for the outstanding outcome of research, development or other creative activity was awarded to our PhD student Matej Fekete.
  July 02, 2019
• Conference: HiPIMS 2019
  Our colleague Katarína Bernátová attended 10th HiPIMS-Conference 2019 – International Conference on Sputter Technology.
  June 28, 2019
• Habilitation of Pavel Souček
  A member of our research group, associate professor Pavel Souček habilitated in the field of Plasma physics.
  June 27, 2019
• Conference: ISSP 2019
  ISSP conference was held in Kanazawa (Japan) in June 2019, where we presented our results during oral presentation.
  June 26, 2019
• Visitor: prof. Jón Tómas Guðmundsson from Iceland
  Within the INNOLEC program prof. Jón Tómas Guðmundsson from University of Iceland presented two lectures on HiPIMS
  June 17, 2019
• Conference: ICMCTF 2019
  ICMCTF conference was held in San Diego (CA, USA) in May 2019. We had three oral contributions in three thematic sections.
  June 08, 2019
• Business Research Forum 2019
  On Thursday April the 25th we attended third Business Research Forum of the Masaryk University.
  April 25, 2019
• Conference: ICAPT-7
  At the turn of February and March 2019, prof. Vašina and dr. Soucek attended ICAPT-7 in the Vietnamese city of Hue.
  March 12, 2019
• Newly obtained GAČR project
  We obtained a project from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.
  March 01, 2019
• Visit at HVM Plasma in Prague
  We gladly accepted an invitation to company HVM Plasma in Prague to see their R&D facility.
  February 14, 2019
• Open Doors Days at Sci MUNI
  We presented study program Physics and the work in the laboratories for the high school students.
  January 26, 2019
• Physical Saturday for high schools
  We opened our laboratories on Saturday January the 12th 2019 for the high school students of the 2nd grade.
  January 12, 2019

2018

• Pour féliciter 2019
  Merry Christmas and our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year wish you prof. Petr Vašina and whole team of PVDlab.
  December 24, 2018
• New HiPIMS power supply made by Ionautics
  We have acquired two new HiPIMS power supply made by Ionautics to our lab.
  December 17, 2018
• Dr. Souček's habilitation thesis defence
  Succesful habilitation thesis defence of our colleague dr. Pavel Souček took place at a public session of the faculty scientific board.
  December 14, 2018
• Visit of prof. J.M. Schneider and Dr. Z. Czigány
  Prof. J. M. Schneider and Dr. Z. Czigány visited our laboratory within the INNOLEC program.
  December 10, 2018
• Newly obtained GAČR project
  A financial support was granted for a new project from 1st January 2019.
  November 29, 2018
• Fall meeting at TU Wien: Heart of Europe – Thin Films Workshop
  TU Wien hosted Thin Films Workshop where we met research group from Austria and Slovakia
  November 28, 2018
• Week of Science and Technology 2018
  We opened the door to our laboratory during the Week of Science and Technology 2018.
  November 12, 2018
• Visitors from Advanced Technologies Research Institute in Trnava, Slovakia
  We performed joint experiments with colleagues from the Advanced Technologies Research Institute.
  October 30, 2018
• Night of Scientists 2018
  We opened the door to our laboratory on Friday 5th of October during the Night of Scientists 2018.
  October 12, 2018
• Newly obtained projects (January 2018)
  A financial support was granted for two new projects from 1st January 2018.
  January 01, 2018

2017

• Conference: RSD 2017
  The conference took place in Pilsen.
  December 06, 2017
• Visitor: dr. Nikolay Britun from the University of Mons
  Dr. Nikolay Britun from the University of Mons visited our research facility.
  November 20, 2017
• Conference: ITFPC 2017
  SFV organized the conference ITFPC in Nancy (France)
  October 27, 2017