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METAMATERIALS student award

Jan Krpensky was awared RCS award by Nanoscale journal family on Metamaterials'2023: The 17th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena with the contribution named 'Metal insulator transition in Vanadium Dioxide Inspected by Analytical Electron Microscopy'. Congratulations!

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Paper in Science

Martin Hrtoň and Radek Kalousek co-authored Science paper on terahertz waves. Great job, congratulations! Article at the faculty pages here[https://www.fme.vutbr.cz/fakulta/aktuality/72639], the paper can be accessed here[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj5612].

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Best poster awards for our students

Our student *Petr Liška* won a best poster award at SPP10 (International Conference on Surface Plasmon photonics) for his poster "Correlative Imaging of Individual CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals: Quantum Confinement Effect in Anisotropic Nanocrystals".

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Absolute TAČR award for our project

We are quite excited to become an absolute winner of Technology Agency of Czech Republic prizes in 2021. After receiving the prize in Bussiness cathegory, the absolute prize was awarded based on internet poll.

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Suneel Kodambaka visit

We had an honor to host Prof. Suneel Kodambaka from UCLA for three summer months. Suneel took part in our experiments on growth of graphene, phosphorene and MXenes. He inspired every student he worked with, and it was a big pleasure to have him with us. For sure, not the last time!

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Electron microscopy days 2021

Every year we co-organize Days of electron microscopy in Brno, a whole week full of entertainment related to electron microscopes. This is the event will be fully online, with an excellent guest - Ondrej Krivanek. Check out the programme here.

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New PhD talent awarded to our group

*Kristýna Bukvišová* from our group became a recipient of PhD talent award 2019. Congratulations! Kristýna works on in-situ electron microscopy, focusing on revealing the growth mechanisms of low-dimensional structures. 

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Award for Mira Kolibal

We congratulate Míra Kolíbal for receiving Award of Jiří z Kunštátu a Poděbrad, King of Bohemia for his significant contribution to the field and European integration in the category of young scientist and innovators!

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CEITEC evaluation

Our group has got the best possible mark (A1) from the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) in the CEITEC scientific evaluation in September 2014!

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ISS - International Summer School

International Summer School 2014 at Devět Skal. The programme of the schools aims at presenting current trends of research at both tutorial as well as state-of-the-art level. The school also connects the areas of fundamental research to the vital areas of technology: nano-electronics, renewable energy and life science applications.

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Droplet dance on top of a pillar

Here, using real time in-situ scanning electron microscopy during germanium nanowire growth we show that the droplet unpinning from the growth interface may also result in a growth of straight nanowires.

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Smooth Cu foils

In this paper we report on the preparation of the high purity copper foils with ultra-smooth surface which could be employed as a substrate for the preparation of single domain graphene.

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Observing Dye Sensitizers

One of our group members participated in the research which provides molecular-level insight in the binding modes of photosensitizer molecule N3 with TiO2 anatase surface.     

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Precision electron optics

Our electron optics calculations show how the manufacturing precision of electron optic components influences the resolution of TEMs.

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