PT21 / Kiel

21. Plasma Technology Conference

Kiel, September 23 – 25, 2025

Book of abstracts

The book of abstracts can be found here.

Program

The main conference including coffee breaks will take place in the foyer and lecture hall of building D on Kiel University’s east campus.

  23-Sep-25 24-Sep-25 25-Sep-25
Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
8:00 – 9:00 Registration & Coffee    
  Rarefied gas (Chair: TBA) Innovation (Chair: TBA) Thin films (Chair: TBA)
9:00 – 9:30 Registration & Coffee Diana Mihailova,
Plasma Matters BV		 Montgomery Jaritz,
Ionkraft GmbH
9:30 – 10:00 Paul Nizenkov,
boltzplatz – numerical plasma dynamics GmbH		 Benedikt Busse,
CINOGY System GmbH		 Denis Music,
Malmö University
10:00 – 10:30 Georg Herdrich,
University of Stuttgart		 Thalita Nishime,
Leibniz-Institute for Plasma Science and Technology		 Marcus Hans,
RWTH Aachen University
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Closing remarks &
Coffee Break
  PVD (Chair: TBA) Processing (Chair: TBA)
11:00 – 11:30 Martin Rudolph,
Leibniz-Institute of Surface Engineering		 Alexander Vahl,
Leibniz-Institute for Plasma Science and Technology		 General Assembly
of the DGPT
11:30 – 12:00 Kerstin Thorwarth,
Empa		 James Ellis,
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
12:00 – 12:30 Eugen Stamate,
Technical University of Denmark		 Petr Zikán,
PlasmaSolve s.r.o.
12:30 – 13:00 Jörg Neidhardt,
Fraunhofer FEP		 Christoph Flötgen,
EV Group GmbH
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
  APP 1 (Chair: TBA) APP 2 (Chair: TBA)
14:00 – 14:30 Julian Held,
Eindhoven University of Technology		 Richard Krumpolec,
Masaryk University
14:30 – 15:00 Kerstin Sgonina,
Kiel University		 Alexander Knospe,
Plasmatreat GmbH
15:00 – 15:30 Christian Koch,
enaDyne GmbH		 Tristan Winzer,
EC Europ Coating GmbH
15:30 – 16:00 Refreshments,
Poster Session &
Industry Exhibition		 Coffee Break
  Diagnostics (Chair: TBA)
16:00 – 16:30 Jessica Niemann,
Kiel University
16:30 – 17:00 Marcel Melzer,
Fraunhofer ENAS
17:00 – 17:30 Peter Awakowicz,
Seeliger Prize Lecture and
Award Ceremony		 Refreshments
17:30 – 18:00 Annemie Bogaerts,
Diels-Planck Lecture and Award Ceremony
18:00 – 18:30 Break / Transfer
18:30 – 19:00
19:00 – 19:30 Conference Dinner
19:30 – End KiNSIS Get-together

Prizes

The 21. Plasma Technology Conference will host the award ceremony and lecture of the prestigious Rudolf Seeliger Prize awarded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Plasmatechnologie e.V. This year we have the honor of being part of the award ceremony to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Awakowicz from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Moreover, the conference will host the Diels-Planck-Lecture and Medal award ceremony of Kiel University’s research priority area Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS). The prize will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Annemie Bogaerts from University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Poster session

The poster session dinner will take place on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 from 15:30 to 17:00 in the old Mensa in building A on Kiel University’s east campus. This will be accompanied by the industry exhibition and light refreshments.

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 19:00 in the Lagom restaurant located on the Kiellinie at the west side of the bay. Note that the number of participants at the dinner is limited.

KiNSIS reception

Following the Diels-Planck-Lecture, a get-together and complementary reception will be offered on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 17:30. It will provide the unique opportunity to exchange with conference participants and other members of research priority area Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS).

Kiel Nanolab Guided Tours

As the central institution for nano science and surface research at Kiel University, the Kiel Nano Laboratory offers modern processing facilities including a class 100/1000 cleanroom with a total area of 300 square meters. During the Wednesday and Thursday coffee breaks, PT21 participants will have the opportunity to attend short guided tours. More information will be announced during the conference welcome. A virtual glimpse of the facilities is provided in this video.