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Team led by Pedro Barquinha designed (Angelo Santos) and made (Ana Santa) an innovative active matrix, based on thin film transistors (TFTs) of semiconductor oxides.

The poster with the title “Ultrafast photonic curing of solution-based aluminium oxide for thin film transistors” by Emanuel Carlos, PhD student in CENIMAT won the Best Poster Award in the innoLAE (Innovations in Large-Area Electronics) in 22nd January of 2019 in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Professor Elvira Fortunato was invited by Prof. Manuel Lozano, Director of the IMB-CNM, to be part of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), a public research center belonging to the Spanish Research Council, CSIC.

Rodrigo Martins, Full Professor of the Materials Department at FCT NOVA, was elected first vice-president of the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS), the largest academic association in the world.

Professor Rodrigo Martins appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of BMC Materials, the new Nature-Springer journal to be released in January 2019.
Professor Pedro Barquinha will also be part of the editors body.

The On-Surf project is a Mobilizing Program involving 14 National companies from different sectors of activity and 8 non-business entities of SI & I (including FCT Nova and CENIMAT / i3N), in a broad consortium, priority in the International Innovation Agenda, Surface Engineering.

Professor Rodrigo Martins was unanimously re-elected as the representative of the Central Co-Location Centers on the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors of KIC Raw Materials.