PVD Laboratory

2025

• Plansee Seminar
  Our colleagues P. Vašina, P. Souček, and M. Fekete actively participated in the Plansee Seminar conference.
  June 09, 2025
• Conference EMRS 2025 Spring meeting
  Our PhD student Sahand Behrangi gave a presentation at the EMRS 2025 conference.
  June 04, 2025
• Success at SVC Techcon 2025
  L. Vrána received Graduate Student Award at SVC Techcon 2025
  May 26, 2025
• Conference SVC Techcon 2025
  Our PhD students, M. Ondryáš and L. Vrána, actively participated in SVC Techcon conference
  May 22, 2025
• Conference ICMCTF 2025
  We attended the ICMCTF 2025 conference in San Diego, USA.
  May 20, 2025
• Conference SICT 2025
  We attended the SICT 2025 conference in Albufeira, Portugal.
  April 25, 2025
• Heart of Europe 2025
  We held a traditional meeting with groups from MUNI Brno, TU Wien, and UK Bratislava.
  April 07, 2025
• Measurements in SHM
  Our colleagues Jaroslav Hnilica and Peter Klein measured at SHM.
  April 02, 2025
• Workshop in Pilsen
  We participated in a workshop on strengthening research management & proposal writing
  March 19, 2025
• Visit by Grzegorz Greczynski
  Professor Grzegorz Greczynski from Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linkoping University, Sweden, visited our laboratory.
  March 18, 2025
• Conference HiPIMS Today 2025
  We attended the online conference HiPIMS Today 2025
  March 17, 2025
• Taiwan visit
  Pavel Souček visited Taiwan
  March 11, 2025
• Visit by Jochen Schneider
  Prof. Jochen M. Schneider visited us.
  January 14, 2025
• New publications in 2025
  You can read our new articles in SCT.
  January 10, 2025

2024

• Lasting cooperation of SHM and PVDlab
  Dr Vjačeslav Sochora was awarded the Prize of the Dean.
  December 12, 2024
• Visits to MU Leoben and RWTH Aachen
  We visited Montanuniversität Leoben and RWTH Aachen University.
  November 25, 2024
• Measurements in SHM
  Jaroslav Hnilica and Peter Klein visited the company SHM.
  November 14, 2024
• Visit to Uppsala and Linköping Universities
  Jaroslav Hnilica and Pavel Souček visited Uppsala and Linköping university.
  October 23, 2024
• We have new publications
  You can now read our 3 latest articles.
  October 15, 2024
• 27th Plasma School
  Our PhD students attended the 27th Plasma School in Bad Honnef, Germany.
  October 05, 2024
• Conference PSE 2024
  We attended the PSE 2024 conference in Erfurt, Germany.
  September 02, 2024
• Visits from Aachen and Leoben
  Dr. Ganesh K. Nayak and Assoc. Prof. David Holec visited our group.
  August 08, 2024
• Publication in Surface and Coatings Technology
  You can read our latest article in the SCT.
  July 29, 2024
• Measurements at Tokyo Metropolitan University
  Peter Klein visited the Tokyo Metropolitan University
  July 16, 2024
• Conference ISSP 2024
  We attended the ISSP 2024 conference in Kyoto (Japan).
  July 02, 2024
• Conference: HIPIMS 2024
  We attended the HIPIMS 2024 conference in Sheffield (UK).
  June 27, 2024
• Publication in Surface and Coatings Technology
  Our latest article compares two industrial technologies.
  June 25, 2024
• Conference: SPPT 2024
  We attended the SPPT 2024 conference in Prague (Czech Republic).
  June 20, 2024
• We have two new publications
  You can now read our latest articles in the SCT and PSST.
  June 05, 2024
• Visit from Ghent University
  Prof. Diederik Depla visited our department.
  June 04, 2024
• Conference: EMRS 2024 Spring Meeting
  We attended the EMRS 2024 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg (France).
  May 27, 2024
• Conference ICMCTF 2024
  We attended the ICMCTF 2024 conference in San Diego (USA).
  May 19, 2024
• Heart of Europe 2024
  Traditional meeting of groups from MUNI Brno, TU Wien and UK Bratislava.
  April 12, 2024
• New publication in Nanomaterials
  Our latest article deals with ZrN-Cu coatings and their bactericidal effectiveness.
  March 19, 2024
• New publication in Acta Materialia
  Our latest paper deals with the effect of incorporating Nb into Mo2BC coatings.
  February 13, 2024
• Open Days at Sci MUNI
  We presented physics programs and the work in our laboratories.
  January 30, 2024
• New publication in Vacuum
  Our latest article deals with coatings for dielectric applications.
  January 08, 2024

2023

• Conference: TACT 2023
  Our colleague attended the TACT 2023 conference in Taiwan.
  November 15, 2023
• Habilitation presentation
  Dr. Jaroslav Hnilica gave a habilitation presentation.
  November 09, 2023
• Masaryk University vice-rector's awards for exceptional results during postgraduate studies
  Our two absolvents received prorector’s awards for exceptional results obtained during their Ph.D. studies.
  October 19, 2023
• Conference: Nanocon
  Our colleague attended the Nanocon conference in Brno (Czech Republic).
  October 18, 2023
• Visit from Ghent University
  Josja Van Bever visited our research group.
  October 13, 2023
• Researchers’ Night 2023
  On Friday, 6.10.2023, we opened our laboratory again as part of the Researchers’ Night.
  October 06, 2023
• Conference: Plathinium
  Our colleagues attended Plathinium conference in Antibes (France).
  September 15, 2023
• Visit at Tokyo Metropolitan University
  Assoc. prof. Souček and dr. Klein visited Tokyo Metropolitan University.
  September 01, 2023
• New article in Plasma Sources Science and Technology
  Our new paper deals with diagnostics of bipolar HiPIMS and was done in cooperation with the Linköping University.
  August 02, 2023
• Semion RFEA System
  We have acquired a new device that extends the current capabilities in plasma diagnostics.
  July 14, 2023
• Conference: HIPIMS 2023
  Our PhD student Martin Učík attended the HIPIMS conference in Venlo, Netherlands.
  June 15, 2023
• Conference: EMRS 2023
  Our colleagues attended European Materials Research Society Conference in Strasbourg, France.
  June 01, 2023
• Heart of Europe workshop
  Traditional meeting of groups from ÚFE MUNI Brno, TU Wien and MFF UK Bratislava.
  March 13, 2023
• The visit to Łukasiewicz – Institute for Sustainable Technologies
  Professor Vašina and assoc. prof. Souček visited Łukasiewicz – Institute for Sustainable Technologies in Radom.
  February 22, 2023
• We published two new articles
  New articles were published in the Surface and Coatings Technology and Vacuum journals.
  February 07, 2023
• Open Days at Sci MUNI
  We presented physics programs and the work in our laboratories.
  January 24, 2023
• Michael Kroker's Ph.D. Thesis Defense
  Michael Kroker successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and received the title of doctor in Plasma Physics.
  January 12, 2023

2022

• Newly received research grants
  Currently, we have one new project under the GAČR call and two new TREND projects.
  December 18, 2022
• Masaryk University prorector's awards for exceptional results during postgraduate studies
  Our two absolvents received prorector’s awards for exceptional results obtained during their Ph.D. studies.
  December 08, 2022
• The second Flexilab deposition system arrived from HVM
  Currently, in our laboratory, we have two Flexilab deposition systems developed by HVM Plasma.
  November 30, 2022
• Stanislava Debnárová's Ph.D. Thesis Defense
  Stanislava Debnárová successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis and was awarded the title doctor in Plasma Physics.
  September 27, 2022
• Our doctoral students defended their dissertations
  Katarína and Marta defended their dissertations and were awarded Ph.D. Congratulations to the doctors!
  June 14, 2022
• What Should I Read This Summer?
  Check out our latest publication work from the first half of 2022 to ensure you have enough to read during summer evenings.
  June 10, 2022
• Conference: ICMCTF 2022
  Finally after three long years the ICMTF conference was held again and our team did no miss it.
  June 09, 2022
• Alcatel SCM 650 upgrade
  The SCM 650 sputtering system was upgraded with new parts in the electric and control unit, vacuum, and gas distribution subsystems.
  April 25, 2022
• New article in Surface & Coatings Technology
  The new paper deals with the thermal stability of Nb-B-C coatings and was a cooperation with the Materials Chemistry group of RWTH Aachen
  January 27, 2022
• Lecture: Assoc. Prof. František Lofaj
  In January we had a special guest, Assoc. Prof. František Lofaj gave us a lecture about hybrid processes in the HiTUS system
  January 19, 2022
• Tereza Schmidtova's Ph.D. Thesis Defense
  Tereza Schmidtova successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis and became a doctor in Plasma Physics
  January 18, 2022

2021

• New article published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
  In Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics is available our newest publication.
  October 05, 2021
• New team member
  Pavel Ondračka is a new team member dealing with an Ab Initio Modelling of Materials at PVDLab.
  October 01, 2021
• Dean’s award
  Stanislava Debnárová received the Dean's Award for the best doctoral students.
  June 29, 2021
• Rector's Award
  Katarína Bernátová received the Rector's Award for excellent doctoral students
  June 16, 2021
• New article published in PSST
  In Plasma Sources Science and Technology is available our newest publication.
  June 15, 2021
• Researcher position
  An opportunity to apply for a researcher position in Ab Initio Modelling of Materials at PVDLab.
  February 17, 2021
• Open Days at MU 2021, this time, online
  This year, we guide online the visitors of the Open days at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University.
  January 27, 2021

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