Fields of interest of ion beam technology

• Exposed parts in the automotive and engineering industries (injectors, camshafts, valves, bearings, etc.);

• Medical and biological applications (prosthesis of materials with originally insufficient abrasion-resistance);

• Surface nitration of stainless steels by ion implantation with the aim to improve their abrasion-resistance while attaining high corrosion-resistance;

• "Stents" (endoluminal blood vessel prostheses), nonporous stents for additionally controlled dosage of drugs, biocompatible and blood-compatible materials, etc., for modern medicine;

• Other options of ion implantation in the areas other than microelectronics, such as the precise mechanics, special construction of expensive watches;

• Protection against high-temperature oxidation (TiAl alloys, turbine constructions);

• Plastics injection into moulds (safety improvement in the removal of parts produced by injecting into the mould, as well as abrasion-protection for highly stressed parts for moulding tools);

• Ion implantation of surface of certain polymers for improving the surface properties, such as electrical conductivity, biocompatibility, etc.

Fields of interest of plasma technology

• Automotive industry: Tribology coatings for car engines and surface treatment of components in order to attain higher efficiency and lower environmental load.

• Electronics: Transparent conductive layers with improved optical and electric properties.

• Machine and aviation industry: Surfaces with enhanced wear resistance and thermal stability.

• Biomedicine: Implants with higher degree of biocompatibility.

Application of plasma-immersion ion implantation

• Doping of silicon by phosphorus and boron by means of the PBII methods for photovoltaic cells

• Super hard surfaces: nitride layers of boron and titanium

• Surface protection of titanium and TiAl alloys: TiAl protection from high-temperature oxidation and progressive coatings for Ti and TiAl alloys

• Biomaterials: nonporous metal materials, tribology protective coatings, antibacterial surfaces, biocompatible surfaces and barrier layers

• Nitration of stainless steel and aluminium

Fields of interest of Department of chemistry and physics 

• Development and applications of coupled cluster methods

• Ab initio calculations of metallic clusters properties

• Accurate calculations of molecular nmr properties including relativistic and solvent effects

• Potential energy surfaces for theoretical infrared spectroscopy, computational atmospheric chemistry

• Ab initio modeling of materials interface structure and its impact on the thermodynamic properties of nano-layers

• Fast stochastic variability (red noise) of accretion processes in the binary stars and active galactic nuclei

• Monte Carlo simulations of red noise and satellite observation data analysis from Kepler and XMM-Newton missions

Fields of interest of Department of automation, informatics and applied mathematics

• Industry: Simulation studies of material flow, production processes and logistics, analysis of current and planned state, support for deployment of workplaces and creation of production layout, design of new layout

• Automation: Intelligent robotic systems, computer vision, machine learning, image processing in various research areas. Design and analysis of artificial intelligence algorithms - deep neural networks.