The SWEB team is proud to announce an important milestone in its journey toward excellence and sustainability: the launch of the Advanced Physics Online Learning Course on Smart Windows, now freely available on the SWEB YouTube channel The… Read More »The SWEB team launches the Advanced Physics Online Learning Course on Smart Windows!
The SWEB project team and the Institute of Solid State Physics UL has marked an important milestone with the official launch of its reactive sputtering Roll-to-Roll (R2R) deposition equipment. This achievement is a breakthrough for the Thin Film Laboratory and… Read More »The SWEB project team launches its Roll-to-Roll (R2R) deposition equipment.
On 30 September 2025 the SWEB project continued its tradition of engaging young minds in STEM. As part of our school outreach activities, Dr. Boris Polyakov, SWEB WP3 lead and head of the Additive Manufacturing group at the Institute… Read More »SWEB project continues its school outreach inspiring the next generation of scientists
While studying our new photochromic thin films under the transmission electron microscope (TEM), we unexpectedly spotted this heart-shaped feature. In reality, it’s a defect only a few hundred nanometres across – but to us, it’s a nice reminder that even… Read More »Sometimes science shows us a little love !
We are glad to share that the member of the Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings team Dr. Mārtiņš Zubkins represented ISSP UL at the EMRS Fall Meeting 2025 with an oral presentation titled “Role of Hydrogen Dynamics and Deposition… Read More »EMRS Fall Meeting 2025
The Thin Films Laboratory team – Martins Zubkins, Edvards Strods and Viktors Vibornijs – participated in the RÅC Summer School 2025 in Tallinn, held on 24–31 August 2025, dedicated to Diffraction and Spectroscopy in Materials Science. The programme featured high-level… Read More »RÅC Summer School 2025 in Tallinn
On September 3, the SWEB team welcomed representatives from AVL, a global leader in mobility technologies, to explore collaboration opportunities in hydrogen, power electronics, automotive, and aviation sectors. AVL experts presented their latest activities and strategic directions, opening the floor… Read More »SWEB team welcomed representatives from AVL
From August 25–29, 2025, our colleagues from the @FeLow-D project, in collaboration with @Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), co-organized the international conference Advanced Materials and Technologies (AMT2025) in Palanga, Lithuania. The event brought together leading experts, researchers, and young scientists… Read More »The international conference Advanced Materials and Technologies (AMT2025) in Palanga, Lithuania.
In support of SWEB’s mission to strengthen research management and funding capabilities in the Western Balkans, @Mahtab Salari Mehr has completed a three-day Horizon Europe Proposal Writing training organized by EFMC – European Fund Management Consulting in Brussels. The training… Read More »Mahtab Salari Mehr Advances Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings (SWEB) project Goals with EFMC – European Fund Management Consulting Horizon Europe Training.
The cameras were rolling today at Latvijas Universitātes Cietvielu fizikas institūts / the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia (ISSP UL), as Dr. Edgars Butanovs, Head of the Semiconductor Thin Film Nanotechnology Group, guided us into the fascinating… Read More »On-line course is a part of the Smart Windows for Zero Energy Buildings (SWEB) project’s mission!