The SWEB project has launched its 2nd newsletter! This year’s INDUSTRY DAY 2025 and other activities focused on widening the SWEB project’s impact in the real industry sector and educational efforts to create new platforms for collaborative activities in the… Read More »The SWEB project continues its expansion in the INDUSTRY, EDUCATION and COLLABORATION sectors
On 23 October, the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, welcomed a delegation from BIOPOLIS and CIBIO as part of the SWEB project’s effort to strengthen international collaboration and broaden the research ecosystem that surrounds materials science in… Read More »A delegation from BIOPOLIS and CIBIO as part of the SWEB project’s effort to strengthen international collaboration.
On 21 November 2025, the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia (ISSP UL), opened its doors to a new circle of Latvian industrial stakeholders, welcoming them to the SWEB Industry Day 2025. Unlike previous years, this gathering focused… Read More »The SWEB Industry Day 2025
On 13th of November 2025, the Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings (SWEB) project hosted a new capacity-building seminar at ISSP UL, welcoming Dr. Carl M. Lampert, internationally recognised materials scientist and long-time Editor-in-Chief of Solar Energy Materials and Solar… Read More »A new capacity-building seminar at ISSP UL, welcoming Dr. Carl M. Lampert, internationally recognised materials scientist and long-time Editor-in-Chief of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.
On 12th of November 2025 SWEB project team at the ISSP UL hosted a seminar by Dr. Carl M. Lampert, Managing Director of Star Science, USA, a leading expert in the field of chromogenic and electrochromic materials. Dr. Lampert’s… Read More »SWEB project team at the ISSP UL hosted a seminar by Dr. Carl M. Lampert
The Thin Films Laboratory Team Lead Dr.phys. Martiņs Zubkins had the pleasure of visiting the Helsinki Accelerator Laboratory, University of Helsinki, to perform ToF-ERDA (Time-of-Flight Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis) measurements on our photochromic thin films. This advanced technique enables precise… Read More »ToF-ERDA (Time-of-Flight Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis) measurements on our photochromic thin films.
The Thin Films Laboratory’s latest article, “Scaling up photochromic thin films with antimicrobial functionality: Roll-to-Roll deposition of YHO and YHO/Cu coatings”, has been published in the journal Vacuum (Elsevier): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2025.114892 In this work we explore roll-to-roll (R2R) reactive magnetron sputtering… Read More »New publication “Scaling up photochromic thin films with antimicrobial functionality: Roll-to-Roll deposition of YHO and YHO/Cu coatings”
We’re excited to share the latest milestones from the Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings (SWEB) project, including the launch of our Roll-to-Roll (R2R) deposition equipment and the Advanced Physics Online Course on Smart Windows. The newsletter also invites you… Read More »The SWEB project has launched its first newsletter!
PROGRAM Join us on November 21st, 2025, at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia (ISSP UL) in Riga, Latvia, for Industry Day 2025, focusing on coating technologies. This event is organized within the Smart Windows for Zero… Read More »Industry Day 2025 on coating technologies by the SWEB project
On October 8, 2025, the SWEB project team visited Daugavpils University’s G. Liberts Innovative Microscopy Centre, marking an important step in strengthening Latvia’s regional research and education ecosystem. Building on the partnership initiated earlier this year, the visit reaffirmed SWEB’s… Read More »Strengthening Latvia’s regional research and education ecosystem – SWEB project team in Daugavpils