Jan Grym, Ph.D.
Research interests:
- Electronics and optoelectronics
- Preparation and characterization of semiconductor nanomaterials and nanostructures
Professional activities:
2023 - present: Member of the evaluation panel of the Research, Development, and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic.
2023 - present: Member of the evaluation panel Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering of the Czech Science Foundation.
2022 Member of the workgroup Materials Science and Technology for the implementation of Open Science in the Czech Republic.
2019 - present: Member of the Doctoral Board Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague
2019: Scientific committee member: European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Meeting
2017 - 2019: Member of the evaluation panel Condensed Matter and Materials Physics of the Czech Science Foundation
2017 - present: Member of the Doctoral Board Electrotechnology and Materials, Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague
2016 - present: Member of the Doctoral Board Physics of Condensed Matter and Materials Research, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague
2014 - 2020: Scientific committee member: International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition
2010 - present: Scientific Committee member of the Development of Materials Science in Research and Education conference
2009 - 2015: Committee member of the Czechoslovak Association for Crystal Growth
International research experience:
2012 - 2015: Visiting scientist at the Center of Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, four short-term stays. Nanomaterials for energy.
2005: Visiting scientist, two-month stay, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Technology of wide bandgap semiconductors.
2003 - 2004: Marie Curie Fellowship, Dept. of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Research training in characterization of electronic and optical properties of semiconductors by microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
Education:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering:
2007: Ph.D. in Electrotechnology and Materials
2000: MSc. in Technological Systems
Current research projects:
Principal investigator of projects:
Selected past projects:
Principal investigator of projects:
- Nanostructured heterojunctions for chemiresistors
- Growth mechanisms of solution-grown one-dimensional semiconductor structures on patterned substrates
- Charge transport mechanism in Schottky contacts on one-dimensional ZnO nanostructures
- III-V semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures towards innovative electronic and photonic applications
- Role of the interface in the preparation of high quality Schottky barriers on III-V semiconductors
- Lattice mismatch compensation in heteroepitaxy on micro and nanoporous A3B5 semiconductors and deposition of metals and semiconductors into micropores
- InP Epitaxial Layers Prepared from Rare-Earth Treated Melts: Growth, Characterization, and Application in Radiation Detectors
Publications:
Books:
- Grym, J. (editor) Semiconductor Technologies. 1. - Vukovar : In-Tech, 2010. 462 s. ISBN 978-953-307-080-3. 1.
Book chapters:
- Grym, J. - Procházková, O. - Zavadil, J. - Žďánský, K., Role of rare-earth elements in the technology of III-V semiconductors prepared by liquid phase epitaxy. Semiconductor Technologies. 1. Vukovar : InTech, 2010 - (Grym, J.), s. 295-320 ISBN 978-953-307-080-3
Journal papers:
- S. Tiagulskyi, O. Černohorský, N. Bašinová, R. Yatskiv, J. Grym, The high thermal conductivity of graphene prevents ZnO nanorod-graphene interface from degradation, Materials Research Bulletin, 164 (2023) 112286. Link
- Vasin, O. Slobodian, A. Rusavsky, O. Gudymenko, P. Lytvyn, S. Tiagulskyi, R. Yatskiv, J. Grym, E. Bortchagovsky, V. Dzhagan, D. Zahn, A. Nazarov, Nanoscale morphology tailoring in plasma deposited CNx layers, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 56 (2023) 275302. Link
- S. Tiagulskyi, O. Černohorský, N. Bašinová, R. Yatskiv, J. Grym, The high thermal conductivity of graphene prevents ZnO nanorod-graphene interface from degradation, Materials Research Bulletin, 164: p. 112286. 2023.
- R. Yatskiv, J. Grym, Š. Kučerová, S. Tiagulskyi, O. Černohorský, N. Bašinová, J. Veselý, Tunable visible emission in nanostructured thin films and bulk ZnO, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 102: pp. 447-453. 2022.
- C. Belabed, A. Tab, F. Moulai, O. Černohorský, S. Boudiaf, N. Benrekaa, J. Grym, M. Trari, ZnO nanorods-PANI heterojunction dielectric, electrochemical properties, and photodegradation study of organic pollutant under solar light, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46:pp. 20893-20904. 2021.
- S. Tiagulskyi, R. Yatskiv, H. Faitová, Š. Kučerová, J. Vaniš and J. Grym, Electrical properties of nanoscale p-n heterojunctions formed between a single ZnO nanorod and GaN substrate. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 107: p. 104808. 2020.
- O. Černohorský, J. Grym, H. Faitová, N. Bašinová, Š. Kučerová, R. Yatskiv and J. Veselý, Modeling of Solution Growth of ZnO Hexagonal Nanorod Arrays in Batch Reactors. Crystal Growth & Design, 20: p.3347-3357. 2020.
- R. Yatskiv, S. Tiagulskyi and J. Grym, Characterization of Graphite/ZnO Schottky Barriers Formed on Polar and Nonpolar ZnO Surfaces. Physica Status Solidi A-Applications and Materials Science, 216(2). 2019.
- O. Černohorský, J. Grym, R. Yatskiv, V.H. Pham and J.H. Dickerson, Insight into Nanoparticle Charging Mechanism in Nonpolar Solvents To Control the Formation of Pt Nanoparticle Monolayers by Electrophoretic Deposition. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(30): p. 19680-19690. 2016.
- R. Yatskiv, V.V. Brus, M. Verde, J. Grym and P. Gladkov, Electrical and optical properties of graphite/ZnO nanorods heterojunctions. Carbon, 77: p. 1011-1019. 2014.
- G.P. Dimitrakopulos, C. Bazioti, J. Grym, P. Gladkov, E. Hulicius, J. Pangrác, O. Pacherová and P. Komninou, Misfit dislocation reduction in InGaAs epilayers grown on porous GaAs substrates. Applied Surface Science, 306: p. 89-93. 2014.
- J. Grym and R. Yatskiv, Schottky barriers based on metal nanoparticles deposited on InP epitaxial layers. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 28(4): p. 045006. 2013.
- R. Yatskiv, J. Grym, K. Zdansky and K. Piksova, Semimetal graphite/ZnO Schottky diodes and their use for hydrogen sensing. Carbon, 50(10): p. 3928-3933. 2012.
- R. Yatskiv and J. Grym, Temperature-dependent properties of semimetal graphite-ZnO Schottky diodes. Applied Physics Letters, 101(16): p. 162106. 2012.
- J. Grym, P. Fernandez, J. Piqueras, Growth and spatially resolved luminescence of low dimensional structures in sintered ZnO. Nanotechnology, 16(6): p. 931-935. 2005.
