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
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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.
