The 12th Seminar on New Trends in Plasma Physics
Following the tradition of meetings between the Czech and Slovak collectives working in the
fields of plasma physics we are pleased to welcome you on the pages of
The 12th Seminar on New Trends in Plasma Physics. As in
recent years the duration of the meeting was one day. The Workshop was aimed at Actual Problems
of Plasma Physics.
The seminars are attended by colleagues from institutions dealing with plasma physics and its
applications. During the more than two decades the laboratories dealing with plasma and its
industrial applications have been changed distinctly and currently they are from seven different
institutions. The seminar is aiming to bring together researchers and teachers and inform them
about the current activities of the research groups.
Preface
More than a quarter of century passed from the first familiar but working meeting of the
teachers and researchers of Department of Physical Electronics of Faculty of Natural Sciences
MU in Brno and Division of Plasma Physics of Department of Experimental Physics of Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University Bratislava. The unforgettable meeting in Božetice
has started the tradition of mutual visits taken annually at the beginning of autumn at the
place of the host team. This meeting established the beginning of informal discussions about
the problems in plasma physics, the topics that brings together both the teams. As the
time passed, notably after the division of Czechoslovak Federative Republic, a lot of our
colleagues not only from Czech and Slovak Republic have attended at our meetings. The number
of participants and the extent of our meetings has been changed yearly. The pleasure from
getting together and from the demand for repeatedly held meetings still remained.
During the more than two decades our laboratories dealing with plasma and its industrial
applications have been changed distinctly. At the beginning of our meetings the Division of
Plasma Physics was a part of Department of Experimental Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics
and Physics UK. In year 1989 this division became independent named as Department of Plasma
Physics. The velvet revolution did not change only the political aspects in the country but
also the heading of research projects at the new department. The perspectives in cooperation
with micro-electronics industry were broken up with the rapid break-up of the original
micro-electronics industry in Czechoslovakia after the revolution. The negative influence of
this process occurred similarly in Bratislava and Brno and was followed with looking for new
orientations and trends in research. As a consequence the cooperation with Department of Solid
State Physics started to extend in the field of preparation of thin layers with plasma
technologies. The cooperation of the part of research teams in Bratislava with the partners in
Brno working on plasma modification of surfaces of polymer materials got stronger too.
The need of rationalization of pedagogical work and of the scientific research stimulated the
process of integration of the physical departments to more powerful collectives in Bratislava
after the year 2000. This process resulted in reduction of the employees and departments. Our
departments of plasma physics and solid state physics joined together after 15 years again to
create the Department of Experimental Physics. The problems of plasma physics and solid state
physics are coming closer that is influenced by the current trends of research heading to the
field of nanotechnologies. This has also affected the teams at the Faculty of Natural Sciences
in Brno. Therefore the recent changes reflected in our jubilee meeting, aiming to bring
together researchers and teachers and inform them about the activities of the groups of
researchers working in the field of plasma physics and solid state physics on both faculties
and their external fellowship institutions. We believe that this meeting will be useful and
fruitful for all of us.
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