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Nearly PLN 15 million for developing GaN technology
The Industrial Development Agency granted a loan for the amount of PLN 14.72 million to the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IWC PAN). The above funds will be used by IWC PAN for acquiring Ammono S.A. Consequently, the Institute will acquire the technology of producing substrate crystals from gallium nitride (GaN) and infrastructure making this production possible.
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Study: Narcissists are less likely to support democracy
The level of support for democracy depends on the person`s self-esteem; narcissistic persons are less inclined to support this system, according to a study conducted with the participation of psychologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte among the most significant people by "Nature"
Valérie Masson-Delmotte is a French climate specialist and research director at the French Alternative Energy and Atomic Energy Commission. In December 2018, she was a lecturer at the symposium "Safeguarding Our Climate, Advancing Our Society" organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Structural details of monolayers revealed
Liquid crystal layers a single molecule thick can form extremely complicated structures. The complex construction of these monolayers makes it difficult to visualize them using standard scanning microscopy. Despite this, images from an STM, obtained at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, reveal, for the first time, structural details of monolayers of liquid crystal dimers, also indicating the mechanisms responsible for the birth of chirality.
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In search of related particles
The last missing particle of the Standard Model, the Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012 in the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Since then, searching for new, related particles has been underway. Predicted by various theories that go beyond known physics, Higgs bosons with positive or negative electric charge are among the favorites to be observed. But do these particles really exist?
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The splendid generative potential of the Sierpinski triangle
One transistor, just a pair of inductors and capacitors. Even such a simple electronic circuit can become an oscillator with a surprising richness of behaviour – prove scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow together with their foreign collaborators from the University of Catania and University of Trento.
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Joint call for swift and just climate action the Katowice Memorandum
Researchers, intellectuals and spiritual leaders jointly call for swift and just climate action. Together, they formulate the Katowice Memorandum at a symposium co-organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) during the 24th UN Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24) in Katowice, Poland. The joint symposium was opened by Jerzy Duszyriski, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Rector of the University of Silesia in Katowice, HE Pierre Levy, French Ambassador to Poland, Stephanie Thiebault, CNRS Director of Institute of Ecology and Environment, and Msgr Marcello Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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