Address: Rooms 118, 122, 3-5, Building 4, 2A Koroleva Street 308034 Belgorod, Russia
Phone: +7 4722 301300 * 5608
Head of the Laboratory Alexander Kolpakov,
Candidate of Physico-mathematical Sciences
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Main Focuses
- Investigating the plasma production process, the cathodic vacuum-arc discharge process
- Investigating the properties of thin coatings and modified surfaces, physical processes of vacuum-arc coating formation;
- Expansion and improvement of plasma sources;
- Developing new equipment and techniques for ion-plasma modification of surfaces and coating application;
- Applying coatings on articles used in various industry sectors, i.e. metalworking production, micromechanics and medicine.
Current Projects
- Developing techniques for plasma production and conducting integrated study of physical and mechanical properties of thin and nanostructural hard vacuum-arc coatings;
- Follow on development of production equipment for coating application;
- Conducting research and development of new methods of characterization of nanoscale diamond-like carbon coatings used in various techniques of conduction for scanning probe microscopy (SPM);
- Investigation of heat treating influence on structure and properties of nanoscale nanostructured carbon coatings;
- Developing the methods of production of hard coating based on carbon components with enhanced temperature resistance;
- Developing the technique for applying biocompatible nanoscale carbon coating on articles of medical purpose;
- Developing an advanced prototype impulsive carbon plasma source;
- Developing a pilot prototype special-purpose vacuum nanoscale coating equipment;
- Fundamental studies of the nanostructured state and properties of coatings based on an amorphous carbon matrix doped with gold and silver, obtained by pulsed vacuum-arc and magnetron methods.
The Laboratory’s Commercializable Projects
- Patent-protected technology for production of super hard nanoscale coatings for the use on the articles for micromechanics, in particular on cantilevers of scanning probe microscopes;
- Technology for applying carbon coatings on cutting tools.
Information was given by Alexander Kolpakov,
Head of the Laboratory, on 29.03.2019
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