On May 18, researchers from the Latvian Institute of Solid State Physics took part in the program “Zināmais nezināmajā” (“The Known in the Unknown”) on Latvian radio 1, where they talked about their research and achievements in the field of smart window technology.
Many different topics were touched upon in relation to smart windows. The audience was given a history of smart windows, a description of the different types and categories of windows (thermo-, electro- and phorochromic), their characteristics and production technologies, the different types of thin coatings, advances in the use of windows today and their future perspectives.
Guests of the programme: the head of the Thin Film Laboratory at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the University of Latvia, academician Juris Purāns, and researchers Mārtiņš Zubkins and Boriss Poļakovs from the same institute, as well as the technical director of “AGL Technologies” Andris Āzens.
You can listen to the full discussion in Latvian on youtube here.