The 2018 Roadmap of the European Strategic Forum for Research (ESFRI): Physics and Engineering
Following the decision of the Competitiveness Council of the EU and the ESFRI forum, the roadmap for Research Infrastructures (RI) in Europe is reviewed and updated after a second year. For the new roadmap 2018, the official launching was produced at Cape Town (South Africa) in October 2016 during the ICRI conference.
A low temperature route towards hierarchically structured titania films for thin hybrid solar cells
Solar energy as a renewable energy source has drawn great attention over last decades due to the depletion and environmental impact of fossil fuels. Many technologies have been developed to harvest solar energy, among which solar cells are a promising technology to directly convert energy into electricity. To date, the photovoltaic market is dominated by silicon-based solar cells as they give reasonable high power conversion efficiencies. However, silicon solar cell panels are heavy, brittle and costly. Therefore, extensive research is dedicated to find alternative solar cell systems.
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Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy 2017
The primary goal of the School will be to present all physics fields with relevance to the technologies of energy production, conversion, transmission and savings, thus addressing today’s most relevant energy issues. The potential of the various technologies will be presented and the need for more research and development to fully unfold them will be indicated. For this purpose, basic lectures and topical seminars will be presented by specialists in their field.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities April 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Young Physicists at CMD 27
EPS Young Minds and the Young DPG are organising a specific programme for young physicists (Master students, graduate students, post-docs) at CMD 27.
EPS Condensed Matter Division : CMD 27 – DPG Spring meeting : call for session proposals
The next conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS, CMD 27, will be held jointly with the Spring meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) of the German Physical Society DPG in Berlin, on March 11th – 16th, 2018. For this special edition of CMD, marking the 50th anniversary of the EPS, we are expecting over 5,000 participants from all over Europe.
New insights in accelerator-driven systems
As part of EUCARD2 activities, and co-sponsored by EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG), a workshop on the status of new developments in Accelerator-Driven Systems or ADS was held at CERN on February 7-9.
The University of Basel is recruiting
The Department of Physics of the University of Basel, Switzerland, is recruiting a PhD Excellence Fellowships.
