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Three Collaborative Research Centers enter the third funding phase

Plasma researchers, tunnel construction experts and neuroscientists rejoice.

The Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) is thrilled threefold: The German Research Foundation has decided to continue funding three Collaborative Research Centers for their respective third and final funding period. The collaborations revolve around the use of high-performance plasmas, machine tunneling and the processing of sensory impressions in the brain. Thus, all RUB applications were successful. In addition, a new Collaborative Research Center/Transregio on oxide catalysis at the Universities of Bochum and Duisburg-Essen was approved.

Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 87 "Pulsed high-power plasmas for the synthesis of nanostructured functional layers".

The path to new materials on the surface of classic materials, for example for electromobility, energy technology - for solar cells, for example - but also medical technology, for example for packaging and sterilization, leads via plasma technology. Researchers from plasma technology, plasma physics, materials science and interfacial chemistry work together in the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 87 "Pulsed High-Power Plasmas for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Functional Layers".

The subject matter includes, for example, ceramic layer systems on metal substrates and silicon or carbon-containing oxide layers on plastic substrates. "For this purpose, we use the latest source technology, some of which we have developed ourselves, and investigate the resulting layers with a broad spectrum of plasma diagnostics, some of which have also been newly developed, and unique single-particle beam experiments," explains spokesman Prof. Dr. Peter Awakowicz.

The research focuses on pulsed high-power plasmas. The aim is to explore and quantify the relationships between material properties and plasma parameters and to use them for plasma control, layer development and coating control. In this way, the researchers aim to overcome the empirical approach that has predominated to date and develop a physically and chemically based understanding of the process.

In the coming funding phase, the participants intend to make the knowledge and methods gained so far available to other coating processes, reactor systems, surface and material systems, and computer codes.

adapted from Meike Drießen (RUB)
Press release (German)

Japan - RUB Workshop

We are happy to announce the upcoming Japan - RUB Workshop between July 4th, 2018 and July 7th, 2018. Workshop of experts from the field of plasma from Japan and from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum are planned for an intesive exchange of knowledge. The plasma workshops will take place on July 4th, 2018 and July, 6th, 2018 including lab tours. Furthermore, a framework program from the RUB is allocated for the Japanese guests to learn more about science in Bochum and the Ruhr area in general.

IS Plama Prize for Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki

The 10th International Symposium Plasma (ISPlasma) took place between March 4th and March 8th at Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. A newly invented prize was given "for outstanding achievements in the field of Plasma Science and its Applications as well as great contribution towards the continued success of ISPlasma/IC-PLANTS." This year, the prize was given for the first time to Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki.
The presented picture shows Prof. Mineo Hiramatsu, Meijo University, Chair Organizing Committee, Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki, Ruhr-Universiät Bochum, and Prof. Masaru Hori, Nagoya University.

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A man for the very special prices

Uwe Czarnetzki has been awarded again in Japan.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki from the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics is the man for the very special prizes: In July 2017, he was the first German to receive the "von Engel and Franklin Prize". In March 2018, he even became the very first recipient of another prize: the organizing committee of the International Symposium Plasma (IS Plasma) awarded him the "IS Plasma Prize". The award honors Czarnetzki's extraordinary contributions to plasma physics and its applications.

This was a real surprise.
- Uwe Czarnetzki

The prize was donated on the occasion of the tenth edition of the symposium. It has always been held in Nagoya, Japan, with the venue alternating between the three universities there, Nagoya University, Meijo University and Chubu University. In March 2018, the meeting had been held at Meijo University. "The prize consists of an engraved glass monolith weighing several kilograms," explains Uwe Czarnetzki. He only learned about the award when he arrived at the meeting. "It was a real surprise," says the plasma physicist.

adapted from Arne Dessaul (RUB)
Press release (German)
c Kramer, RUB

DPG in Erlangen 2018

On Monday, 4th March 2018, the 82nd Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting started at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen. It took four days, where scientists from all over Germany met to discuss their newest results on atomic, molecular, plasma physics, and quatnum optics.

Three groups from Bochum also joined the traditional meeting with 1 poster presentation and 6 oral contributions from the experimental physics II group. The group of Prof. Czarnetzki presented 3 oral presentations and one poster presentation. Further, from the field of theoretical electrical engineering one oral and one poster presentation was contributed.

Beside the scientific program, social events like an EinsteinSlam or an award ceremony with interludes of musical accompanists.

Gyrokinetic Theory of Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

Between February 19th until February 23th as well as between March 12th and 16th, an intensive course concerning strongly magnetized plasmas will take place at the insitute for theoretical physics of Prof. Grauer. Dr. Daniel Told is going to hold lectures in the morning and exercises will be avaible in the afternoon. The lectures will take place in NB 6/99 and the exercises in NB 7/173.
Interested people are welcome to join! 

Kick-Off Meeting CRC 1316

On February 5th and 6th the Kick-Off Meeting of the newly approved collaborative research centre, CRC 1316, took place at Beckmanns Hof in Bochum.

Nearly 40 scientists from the collaboration presented their research goals and started to discuss about scientific goals and collaborations between the different projects. 

RUB PhD students at WELTPP 2017

At the end of November, the 20th WELTPP took place in the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. The scientific program was made up of five oral and two poster sessions which covered various topics in the field of low temperature plasma physics with a good balance of theoretical and experimental works. The very interested audience -mostly young researchers - led to a lot of good questions after the talks and fruitful discussions during the poster sessions.
Besides the scientific part, the programm was rounded by good food and a guided tour through the old Abbey. For me it was a great pleasure to take part in this workhop and for next year I recommend it for every young researcher in this field.

 

CRC 1316 approved by German Research Foundation

The German Research Foundation approved the proposal of Prof. Achim von Keudell and his consortium concerning the funding of a collaborative research project with the title "Transient atmospheric plasmas - from plasmas to liquids to solids". Within the consortium, 17 research projects on different topics are addressed. The funding period is from 2018 until 2022.

For more information see SFB 1316.

Awards for TET students at GEC conference

Several members of the faculty for electrical engineering attended this  the 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference in Pittsburgh, USA. Especially for two of them, the conference was very fruitfuil:
Sebastian Wilczek from the chair theoretical engineering was honored for his contribution with the title "Differences between Cartesian and spherical 1d3v particle-in-cell simulations" with the Student Excellence Award and Manaswi Daksha from the same chair won a Poster Award for his contribution "A real-time model for secondary electron emission coefficients in low temperature plasmas".
Congratulations to both of them!

 

Workshop "Plasma Theory"

A special workshop on plasma theory ranging from astrophysical topics to fusion science has been organized by Prof. Grauer from TPI. Special guests were Dr. Daniel Told from the IPP Helmholtz Group on Computational Plasma Physics and Dr. Moritz Püschel from the University of Texas/University of Wisconsin.

  1. 2018-11-13 - International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications
  2. 2017-10-09 - Carles Corbella visiting Uppsala
  3. 2018-10-15-International School on Plasma Physics started
  4. 2017-10-08-International School on Plasma Physics started

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