On the afternoon of March 29, 2024, PPM INSTITUTE invited Professor Zou Guifu① of Soochow University to give an academic report on the latest progress and application research of functional thin film materials to all researchers in the company's office building in the 805 staircase room. Yang Junhui, executive vice president of PPM INSTITUTE, attended the report meeting.

The report meeting officially started at 14:30 in the afternoon. Professor Zou Guifu first gave a detailed introduction to the research background of functional thin film materials. Functional thin film materials are the core of the ten key industrial fields in the national strategic emerging industry development plan. They have broad application prospects in electronic information, energy and environment, biomedicine and other fields. Thin filmization is the key technology for the application of material devices. Subsequently, Professor Zou conducted an in-depth analysis from the two aspects of technical difficulties and scientific problems. At the same time, he also showed us the main ideas, methods and latest research results of his research team in the process of conducting research. In the final discussion session, participants asked questions actively, and the academic atmosphere on the scene was strong.

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① Zou Guifu, second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Soochow University, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, director of the National Photovoltaic Engineering Technology Research Center, young chief scientist of the National Key Basic Research and Development Program, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund and Jiangsu Province Distinguished Professor, and winner of the Jiangsu Province Outstanding Youth Fund. He is currently engaged in the research and development of new inorganic nano-thin film material growth and its efficient energy conversion, and ultra-thin optoelectronic films. He has presided over national and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects with a total funding of more than 20 million yuan. He has published more than 190 research papers in international journals and obtained more than 50 patents, many of which have been industrialized. Due to his outstanding contributions to the research and industrialization of functional thin film materials, he was named one of the top ten outstanding young people in Suzhou and was interviewed by CCTV as a representative of Suzhou science and technology in the series of activities for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party.