At the end of 2023, two new projects were approved for DPPT scientists. One is a project of Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Homola on preparing perovskite solar cells with high efficiency and stability. Second is a project of Assoc. Prof. Pavel Sťahel on CaviPlasma technology.
Since October 2023, a new international project of Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Homola from CEPLANT and the Plasma Nanotechnologies and Bioapplications research group of the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology is ongoing. The project, "Beyond 27% perovskite solar cells: A deep study based on in-situ charge dynamics and crystal growth kinetics," is funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the V4+Korea call. Our researchers will cooperate with the Institute of Physics of the CAS, the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the University of Szeged, Hungary, and Hanyang University, South Korea. The main objective is to prepare high-efficiency and stable solar cells and enable their commercial use. This research will contribute to the progress of perovskite optoelectronics, such as LEDs and photodetectors. The project will end in September 2026.
Another newly approved project is "CaviPlasma: a broad-spectrum large-volume decontamination plasma technology for the Emergency services" of Assoc. Prof. Pavel Sťahel from the research group Applied Plasmochemistry at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology. This project will be implemented from January 2024 to December 2026. The project will be financed from the grant funds of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (SECTECH call). It will be investigated in cooperation with the Institute of Botany of the CAS, Brno University of Technology, and the private company ORYX - CZ, s.r.o.. Doc. Sťahel and his colleagues will focus on implementing the newly developed CaviPlasma technology in the decontamination of CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense) agents. They will test the new technology on cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins.
At Earth Day 2024 in the Botanical Garden, the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre represent physics. The Botanical Garden organizes this event every year. This year's topic was plant protection. Hundreds of people, both adults and children, came to the event.
The Heart of Europe workshop is a traditional gathering of scientists dealing with thin films. The center of Europe is presented by the Technical University of Vienna, Masaryk University in Brno, and Comenius University in Bratislava.
