OREANDA-NEWS. A Shvabe Holding employee has taken part in the "Sputtering and its types" workshop, which was held at the end of May in Ion Plasma Technologies Research INstitute based on N.E.Baumann MGTU.

Sergey Kurlenkov, a Holding enterprise's employee - chief process engineer of Polyus Research Institute OJSC named after M.F.Stel'makh (Polyus NII OJSC), delivered a report at the workshop on the topic: "Ion plasma etching, cleaning and magnetron sputtering of various materials".

"Formation of multi-layer dielectric coatings by various methods is at present one of the key directions of Polyus NII OJSC's activity". Today the magnetron sputtering method is considered one of the most innovative and highly effective methods. It allows to produce high-quality thin films with record physical characteristics (thickness, porosity, adhesion, etc.) as well as to perform layer-by-layer synthesis of new structures (structural design), thus creating a film literally at the level of atomic planes", told Nickolai Rakovich, Shvabe JSC's deputy general director for R&D and innovative development.

In the course of the "Sputtering and its types" workshop, Russian researchers have discussed both theoretical matters concerning the specifics of application of coatings and the selection of equipment and expandables.