15.3. - 17.3.2023 Conference CSPES 2022/23 in Plasy
The NTC Research of Advanced Materials team completed the project "Computational and Experimental Design of Advanced Materials with Novel Functions". The project was financed under the Operational Program Research, Development and Education, which seeks to support excellent research teams.
The project audit took place at the beginning of this year and the final CSPES 2022/23 conference was held in Plasy in March. The conference was focused on project outputs and the latest experimental and theoretical developments in the field of electronic properties of materials investigated by photoemission and electron spectroscopy.
31.10.2022 Article "Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric α-GeTe(111)" - Nature Communications
26.10.2022 Jiri Vanicek from EPFL visit
24.05.2022 Oleg Peil and Franco Moitzi - Quantum mechanical description of alloys lecture
10.04.2022 The Pilsen Research Centre received a prestigious grant - an article in Czech on the Seznam Zprávy
08.04.2022 We received a prestigious EU grant to support young scientists
08.04.2022 The NTC Research Centre Received a Prestigious EU Grant to support young scientists - an article in Engl on the INFO UWB
24.03.2022 Dominik Legut - Quantum properties in magnetite lecture
23.03.2022 Ondřej Caha - Topological insulators lecture
16.03.2022 Visit of Martin Pumera - 2D materials lecture
22.11. 2021 The practical "SPR-KKR HANDS-ON COURSE ON MAGNETISM AND SPECTROSCOPY" - Daresbury from 22nd to 25th November 2021
26.11.2021 – The article „Unveiling the orbital texture of 1T-TiTe2 using intrinsic linear dichroism in multidimensional photoemission spectroscopy“ was published in Quantum Materials - Nature_NPJ
27.09.2021 - the lecture „THE MEMORY FUNCTION APPROACH: The Swiss army knife of statistical physics – Application to dielectric function“ by Didier Sebilleau
23.06. 2021– The APCOM Conference
21.5.2021 An international study with – Observation of triple-point Fermions
14.7.2020 Article „An open-source coding paradigm for electronic structure calculations“
6.1.2020 – Article in prestigious Nature Journal – link to the article on the UWB INFO
19.7. 2019 Visit of the Minister of MPO and the Deputy Prime Minister doc. Karel Havlíček
https://twitter.com/KarelHavlicek_/status/1152145434980311042
14.11.2018 At the Festive Meeting of the UWB Scientific Council, the strategic partner of the project Prof. Karol Hricovini Honorary Doctorate has received Honorary Doctorate
More information in the Czech language:
https://info.zcu.cz/clanek.jsp?id=1769
22.-26. 10. 2018 Ondřej Šipr stayed at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
The purpose of the research stay was discussions and consultations with
coworkers. Together with Sergey Mankovsky we discussed results
obtained for spin stiffness of doped systems. We agreed that there is
a good overall agreement between theory and experiment. For a better
understanding of the influence of the dopant, it would be useful to
analyze the trends of the exchange coupling constants directly.
Possible reasons for differences between various methods were
discussed with Hubert Ebert. Further, we discussed the trends of
electric conductivity, anomalous Hall conductivity and spin Hall
conductivity with Sebastian Wimmer. We agreed that some of the trends
are intuitive well understandable while others are not. A more
detailed study of the numerical accuracy and convergence of the
calculations appears to be necessary. Physical mechanisms behind the
relevant transport properties were discussed with Hubert Ebert.
July 2018 (one month) Fatima Alarab - Stay: EP4, Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg
report hire
11.-15. 6. 2018 Ondřej Šipr stayed at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
During his research stay, Ondřej Šipr discussed with Hubert Ebert,
Sergey Mankovsky and Sebastian Wimmer (i) about results for spin
stiffness of metals obtained by different methods and about the
corresponding methodology, (ii) about calculations of
temperature-dependent transport properties in doped alloys and
possible physical interpretation, and (iii) possible
implementation of new exchange-correlation functionals in the SPRKKR
code. The discussions helped to identify critical points in
respective areas and to set directions and targets for further
research.
Rostislav Medlín from NTC had a lecture about quantum dots and spectroscopic Ab-Initio simulations
TEM in Materials Sciences meeting, which took place April 24-25 in Brno, contributed to the sharing of current experience with Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) in the areas of microscopic research of advanced materials and technologies.
Rostislav Medlín from the New Technologies Institute of Technology - Research Center presented the results of the basic TEM research on II and III. generation of Silicon-based Solar Cells and TCO. Nanostructured Si using quantum dots have possibilities to change the bandwidth of thin film silicon materials for solar cells and Ab-initio simulations can examine the properties of doped ZnO used as a transparent conductive electrode by comparing measured EELS material spectroscopic responses with responses modeling from the first principles.
https://www.ceitec.cz/ceitec-nano-hostilo-setkani-s-tematem-transmisni-elektronove-mikroskopie/t9884
The ministry represents the NTC project
The Ministry of Education published an article on its website on the project, which focuses on predicting and researching the properties of new materials. It is the flagship project of the New Technologies Research Center (NTC).
https://info.zcu.cz/clanek.jsp?id=1313
28.1.-1.2.2018
CEDAM will be represented during the workshop
Electron and photon spectroscopies of quantum materials:
status and perspectives (EPSQMat2018) where Jan Minar will give invited
presentation "One step model of ARPES: Photoemission response of
Fe‐pnictides".
This workshop is organized on the honor of
Prof. J. Fink who will soon celebrate his 80th Birthday.
CEDAM would like to wish Prof. Fink Happy Birthday and would like to
thank him for his longstanding collaboration with us.
https://www.ifw-dresden.de/institutes/iff/events/epsqmat2018/
18.1.2018
Jan Minar, Laurent Nicolai and Rostislav Medlin have been
involved in the proposal called EUSPECLAB within the: Innovative
Training Networks (ITN)
Call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 lead by Prof. Sebilleau (Uni Rennes) . This
the proposal involves 9 partners from France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden,
Belgium as well as two industrial partners. The main objective of this
ITN is to form the next generation of theoretical materials scientists
(physicists and chemists) that are able, both in academic and industrial
laboratories, to calculate, explain and predict the properties of
the matter using cutting-edge spectroscopies. This will bridge the
gaps between industrial process, technological progress, and theoretical
understanding.
Photoelectron Diffraction Modeling within the MsSpec Package
Lecturer:
Didier SEBILLEAU, Theory Group, Département Matériaux-Nanosciences, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes-1, France
Date: 16 November 2017
Time: 10:00
Venue: Building G Vědeckotechnický park, Teslova 9a, Pilsen
Comments On Work Fluctuation Theorems And Work Computations inNon-Equilibrium Transformations
This lecture is dedicated to the field of statistical mechanics. It
covers an introduction to (i) the work fluctuation theorem (also called
Jarzynski equality) for non-equilibrium transformations, (ii)
consequences of the above theorem and (iii) definitions for work. In the
second part of the talk will be presented force-field molecular dynamic simulations proposed to estimate the quantity of work according to its specific definition.
Date: 9 November 2017
Time: 14:00
Venue: Building C1 Vědeckotechnický park, Teslova 5B, Pilsen
Seminar to present research activities of members/teams EVT project.
Lecturers:
Jan Očenášek
Rostislav Medlín
Vladimír Tvarožek
Saleem Ayaz Khan
Wilayat Khan
Ondřej Šipr
Date: 11 July 2017
Time: 14:00
Venue: Building C1 Vědeckotechnický park, Teslova 5, Pilsen
Atomic structure, electron properties and dynamics of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites
Lecturer:
Min-I LEE, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Universite Paris Sud, France
Date: 9 October 2017
Time: 14:00
Venue: Building G Vědeckotechnický park, Teslova 9a, Pilsen
13.11.-15.11.2017
Within the project “Computational and Experimental Design of Advanced Materials with new Functionalities” (CEDAMNF) and European COST action EUSPEC, NTC at UWB (Rostislav Medlin and Jan Minar) together with Peter-Grünberg-Institute-6 of Research Center Jülich (Slavomir Nemsak) are organizing the international workshop on photoemission and related techniques - CSPES-2017. This workshop is dedicated to recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of electronic properties of materials as investigated by photoemission and electron energy loss spectroscopies. It will host over 30 experts from 10 countries in Europe and America. The list of invited speakers includes leading experts in photoemission applications, such as Prof. Charles Fadley from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Prof. Vladimir Matolin from Charles University in Prague and Dr. Didier Sebilleau from the University of Rennes. The workshop will further strengthen the networking and between the theorists and spectroscopists and empower their common efforts of unraveling underlying fundamental principles imprinted in the electronic structure of materials.
Jan Očenášek:
Host university: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech)
Host Professor: Jorge Alcala Cabrelles
Visiting Period: 1st - 30th June 2017
The research fellowship was dedicated to the development of atomistic computer simulations for modelling the piezoelectric effect and the flexoelectric effect. We were exploring the capabilities and limitations of the core-shell approach for adding polarizability in classical force-field atomistic simulations. The work included the implementation of special-order pair potentials providing promising results.
14.-19.6.2017: Jan Minar stayed at LPMS laboratory at the University of Cergy-Pontoise close to Paris.
This ARPES laboratory with its director Prof. Hricovini is main experimental partner of CEDAMNF. During this stay, we successfully measured XPS on titanium-doped ZnO and we finalized the experimental configuration of planed CEDAMNF ARPES laboratory.
29.5. - 9.6.2017 O. Šipr
visit Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munchen
The aim of the research stay is to start software implementation of the
formalism to calculate x-ray absorption spectra within the linear-response
theory approximation to the time-dependent density functional theory. The
formalism is supposed to be robust and stable enough to enable reliable
calculations of spectra for a variety of materials. Additionally,
discussions about specific problems related to the effect of the
spin-orbit coupling on the electronic structure will be held.
7.6.17 Dr. Slavomír Nemšák - New ways of looking at solid/liquid interfaces under operating conditions
13.02.17 Researchers from NTC discover how to measure time without the use of clocks (only Czech version)
31.03.2017 Invitation of Cergy Hricovini
pdf - Invitation_31-03-2017_Hricovini_Cergy
