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RAPID workshop in Eindhoven
The workshop with the focus on "Process technology from Nano-Scale to Large-scale" and "Emerging concepts in diagnostics and modelling" of the EU programm RAPID was between April 11th and 13th, 2017 at the Eindhoven University of Technlogy.
In sum 15 contributions were presented of researchers of different fields, from PhD students to well-known professors. In between the sessions, discussions about different research topics and the lab tour helped the workshop to reach its successfulness.
The Bochum group with three participants from the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions could welcome a former member of the group, Dr. Gina Oberbossel. She was one of the presenter at the workshop and visited the labs in Bochum previously to the workshop.
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General meeting of the SFB-TR 87 in Raesfeld
On April 4th and 5th, 2017 the annual general meeting of the SFB-TR 87 took place in the castle of Raesfeld.
The focus was the objective of each project for the third funding phase. The general idea of the special research field was recovered in the presentations of the individual projects. Moreover, three new projects were introduced and two projects were integrated into one project for the next phase. Based on the fruitful discussions, the members left the meeting with the aim to write the proposal for the final funding phase 2018 - 2022.
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Dr. Ondrej Cibulka and PhD student Martin Müller visited Prof. Jan Benedikt
Dr. Ondrej Cibulka and PhD student Martin Müller (see photograph with Kerstin Sgonina together with an atmospheric plasma source for nanoparticle generation) came in March from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague to visit the group Coupled Plasma-Solid State Systems of Prof. Jan Benedikt. Their stay was organized in Frame of DAAD exchange Program "Critical evaluation of optical gain in different types of Si nanocrystals for future CMOS technology". The fruitful cooperation resulted already in four peer-review articles. The reciprocal visit of Mrs. Sgonina and Prof. Benedikt in Prague is planed for April.
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Agata Giardina
The research group applied microbiology of Prof. Julia Bandow welcomes M.Sc. Agata Giardina fo the Universitá di Padova from Italy. The intention of the collaboration is to intensify the knowledge about the impact of plasmas on biological systems. This fits perfectly to Agiata Giardina's PhD topic, the effect of new plasma sources on the model enzyme GAP-dehydrogenase. She visits the group for at least four months, from January 1st, 2017 until April 30th, 2017.
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Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt moves to Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
At April 1st, 2017 Jan Benedikt was appointed full professor for experimental plasma physics at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel. The research department will continue the collaboration with the group of Prof. Benedikt and will strenghten thereby the ties with CAU.
In 2004 Dr. Jan Benedikt joined RUB as a PostDoc in the research group reactive plasmas of Prof. von Keudell. He build up the experiments on mass spectrometry, µ-plasmas, and plasma medicine. In 2010 he was appointed a junior professorship for Coupled Plasma-Solid State Systems at the faculty for plasma physics and astronomy. During his time at RUB, he supervised six PhD thesis and numereous master and bachelor thesis.
The research department plasmas with complex interactions whishes Jan Benedikt all the best for his future and looks forward to many fruitful collaborations.
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Prof. Dr. Felix Spanier
The well-established cooperation in the BMBF project "Astrophysical Processes in the Heliospheric Environment" of PD Dr. Horst Fichtner (Chair of Theoretical Physics IV) with the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, in South Africa led to a visit of Prof. Dr. Felix Spanier to talk about latest scientific results. He visited RUB from 09 - 16 January 2017.
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Dr. Roelf Du Toit und M.Sc. Petrus Johannes Steyn
PD Dr. Horst Fichtner welcomed another visit from South Africa in the framework of the BMBF project "Astrophysical Processes in the Heliospheric Environment". Dr. Roelf Du Toit and M.Sc. Petrus Johannes Steyn came from the North-West University, Campus Potchefstroom, in South Africa from February 16 - 17, 2017.
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Dr. Bidzina Shergelashvili
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Austrian visitors had the chair of theoretical physics IV, PD Dr. Horst Fichtner. From the University of Graz Dr. Bidzina Shergelashvili was visiting in the time of March 13 - 24.
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Dr. Molina
Dr. Ricardo Molina from the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC) will give the seminar “Plasma polymerization in contact with liquids” on Wednesday, March, 29th, in Bochum. This lecture explores some routes to synthesize polymers in liquid environment by means of dielectric barrier discharges (DBD). The properties of the treated surfaces, e.g. surface energy, are addressed as well.
Since 2009, Dr. Molina works as Tenured Scientist at IQAC-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain. Being an expert in remote plasma treatments and DBD applications, his work is focused on plasma treatment of polymeric materials, plasma sterilization, plasma in liquids (elimination of contaminants in wastewater and polymerization) and plasma in agriculture (plasma activated water, seed germination, etc).
The seminar will take place on 29.03.17 at 10.00 in the lecture room ID 03/445 in the RUB. Please confirm attendance by sending an e-mail to
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Workshop an der North-West University, Campus Potchefstroom, in Südafrika
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projkets "Astrophysical Processes in the Heliospheric Environment" findet ein Workshop an der Kooperationshoschule in Südafrika statt. Neben einer Delegation aus Bochum werden von den anderen Projektpartner sich Vertreter in Südafrika zusammentreffen um die Ergebnisse zu diskutieren.
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DPG Bremen
The DPG Spring Meeting has been held this year in Bremen, Germany, March 13-16, where scientists from the fields of plasma physics, matter and cosmos, short-range physics, environmental physics can exchange ideas. The Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions is represented at the DPG by talks and posters from students as well as PIs.
Presentations were given by:
- Astrophysikalische MHD-Schockstrukturen am Beispiel von λ Cephei
Lennart Robin Baalmann - An improved analytical model of the local interstellar magnetic field: The extension to compressibility
Jens Kleimann, Christian Röken, and Horst Fichtner - Linear Disturbances in the Local Interstellar Medium: The Plasma-Gas Interaction in the Two-Fluid Approximation
Lukas Westrich - Semi-Analytical Calculation of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Configurations
Sophie Aerdker - Coronal active region modelling based on SDO data
Stephan Barra - A generalized two-component model of solar wind turbulence
Horst Fichtner, Tobias Wiengarten, Sean Oughton, Eugene Engelbrecht, Jens Kleimann, and Klaus Scherer - How hot is the heliosheath?
Klaus Scherer, Hans-Jörg Fahr, Horst Fichtner, Adama Sylla, and John Richardson
Durch Poster vertreten:
- Deposition of SiOx coatings by means of inductively coupled plasma
Markus Brochhagen, Vincent Layes, Marc Böke, and Jan Benedikt - Argon Implantation in Composite Magnetron Targets
Sascha Monje and Vincent Layes - Investigation of Microarray Plasmas with an adjacent dielecric
Sebastian Dzikowski, Ronan Michaud, Remi Dussart, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen - Correlation of spatially resolved in-vacuum XPS characterisation and optical diagnostics for composite magnetron targets in HiPIMS plasma
Vincent Layes, Sascha Monjé, Carles Corbella, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen, Achim von Keudell, and Teresa de los Arcos - Deposition of a-C:H layers using an atmospheric pressure He/Acetylene plasma jet
Theresa Urbanietz, Katja Rügner, Gert Willems, Achim von Keudell, and Jan Benedikt - Broadening and shift of optical emission lines in a high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge
Julian Held, Ante Hecimovic, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen - Investigations on the dynamics of non-reactive and reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas
Katharina Grosse, Wolfgang Breilmann, Christian Maszl, Jan Benedikt, and Achim von Keudell - Electron dynamics in magnetized technological plasmas: A kinetic description
Ralf Peter Brinkmann and Dennis Krüger