SWEB Summer School on Functional Coatings and X-Chromic Materials (18-19 June)
Please, apply for your participation in the Summer school here: https://shorturl.at/s2lrR
As part of the FM&NT 2026 Conference, the SWEB Summer School offers a unique learning opportunity for students and early-career researchers.
The program provides insights into functional coatings and X-chromic materials while fostering discussion and exchange with leading researchers.
Dates: 18-19 June
Location: Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Kengaraga Str. 8, Riga
The Summer School 2026 is planned as an intensive 1.5-day educational event for students from different countries, aimed at introducing modern thin-film technologies, experimental techniques, smart functional devices, and digital tools for materials design.
This year’s program will combine:
- short focused lectures;
- hands-on demonstrations;
- practical training sessions with advanced research software.
The main emphasis of the Summer School is on bridging fundamental concepts with practical implementation, giving students direct exposure to real research infrastructure, experimental workflows, and computational tools used in modern materials science.
Key thematic focus areas
- Thin film coatings and functional thin films. This topic will cover deposition technologies, material design, and structure-property relationships in thin films. Short lectures will introduce modern coating approaches and their applications.
- Smart devices and functional coatings. This topic will address smart and adaptive devices based on thin films, such as smart windows, electrochromic and photochromic devices. Lectures will highlight both fundamental mechanisms and application-oriented perspectives.
- Experimental techniques and demonstrations in thin film technologies. This block will focus on experimental methods and characterization techniques used in thin-film research. Planned demonstrations such as roll-to-roll deposition technologies, magnetron sputtering and other thin-film characterization methods.
The goal of this block is to familiarize students with real laboratory workflows, equipment, and data interpretation. - Computational materials design and digital tools. Participants will explore how digital modeling and AI-assisted workflows complement experimental thin-film research and accelerate the design of functional coatings and smart materials.
The up-to-date programme for the Summer School 2026 is found HERE:
Programme of the Summer School 2026
Participation is free of charge.
Time and place: JUNE 18-19 2026, Institute of Solid State Physics, Kengaraga street 8, Riga, Latvia.
Application deadline 22 May 2026.
Contacts:
- laura.zorza@cfi.lu.lv