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Prof. Achim von Keudell at TedX

Prof. Achim von Keudell had the honour to join the Tedx event on 19th May 2018 in Bochum with a 15 minutes talk on the impact of plasma technology on the daily life with a small focus on HiPIMS. The overarching topic of the event was "Changing Perspectives". Only 200 tickets for the audience were avaible.

TEDx is a wolrdwide offspring of the TED conference series. The range of topics of the TEDx event was extremly broad covering societal and scientific challenges of the future.

  • The video of the presentation can be found here.

Masao Horiba Prize for Dr. Tsankov

The Masao Horiba Prize has been awarded annually for 15 years to scientists and technical experts to honor world-leading ideas and innovations in diagnostic methods. The specific topic is selected each year from the areas promoted/represented by the HORIBA Group. The topic of this year's award was "Advanced analytical measurement technologies for the semiconductor manufacturing process". Semiconductor technologies form the foundation of today's society. In order to drive forward the constant development, many companies in the industry need new innovations - not only in the production of materials but also in the control and observation of production processes, e. g. by new diagnostic methods.
A jury of established scientists and representatives of the HORIBA Group selected the prize winners. Among them Dr. Tsanko Vaskov Tsankov from the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy was especially distinguished. Dr. Tsankov has developed a plasma diagnostic method that allows the non-invasive determination of plasma parameters. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in October at Kyoto University. Dr. Tsankov has received an award from the HORIBA Group for his work "Non-invasive plasma characterization using the ion velocity distribution function".

  • You can find out more about the prize and the prize winners here.

RUB Japan Science Days

From July 4 - 7 2018, top researchers, presidents, vice presidents and executives from university management and administration from the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, the University of Tsukuba and RUB meet to promote the fruitful exchange among them.

The RUB Japan Science Days will be each devoted to a guiding topic of high societal relevance that offers multi- and transdisciplinary approaches to teaching, research and transfer. This year - honoring a topic that is presently hotly debated in Japan and also in Germany - the Science Days are devoted to "Society 5.0 - Chances and Risks of Digital Transformation and the Responsibility of Universities".

Furthermore, a framework program from the RUB is aocated for the Japanese guests to learn more about science in Bochum and the Ruhr area in general.

A separate workshop with plasma scientists from Japan and Bochum finally resultet in a great exchange of both groups and new enrolled cooperations between different groups.

WissensNacht Ruhr 2018

At 29th September 2018, the event WissensNacht Ruhr, which is located at seven different locations within the Ruhr Area takes place. We are going to present plasmas in the Blue Sqaure in Bochum. Everybody is welcome to join our exhibition.

SFB-TR 87 approved for third funding phase

The German Research Foundation approved the proposal of Prof. Peter Awakowicz from the Electrical Engineering Departement and his consortium concerning the funding of a collaborative research project with the title " Pulsed high power plasmas for the synthesis of nanostructured functional layers". Within the consortium, 20 research projects on different topics are addressed. Especially, two transfer projects with industrial partners is also approved. The funding period is from July 2018 until June 2022.

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.

  • More information RUB

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! 

  1. 2018-02-06 Kick-Off Meeting CRC1316
  2. 2017-12-11 - RUB PhD students at WELTPP
  3. 2017-11-27 - SFB 1316 approved by German Research Foundation
  4. 2017-11-13 - Awards for TET students at GEC conference

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