History Separated from Institute of Electronics of the NAS of Belarus in 1990

1. APPLICATION DLC COATING IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTSPLASMOTEG Engineering Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Prof. Eduard Tochitskypec@bas-net.by

2. PLASMOTEG Engineering Centre(Institute of The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) Established 1990 • History Separated from Institute of Electronics of the NAS of Belarus in 1990 • Staff: Today 55 people are working at Plasmoteg, 39 of them are scientists and engineers • Mission Basic research and development PVD&CVD coating and design of thin film devices

3. PLASMOTEG Structure PLASMOTEG Engineering Center Laboratory of Microelectronics Laboratory of Surface Physics Department Vacuum Plasma Systems Laboratory of Arc Plasma Source Laboratory of Plasma Deposit Processes Sector of Power Supply and Control Systems Sector of Plasma System and Technology

4. New Technologies • Production nonhydrogenated diamond like carbon (DLC) coatings of large area on articles from metals, ceramics, plastics etc at room temperature. Such DLC coatings have microhardness up to 85 GPa, close to a natural diamond. • Technology of a new abrasive material for precision surface treatment and a method for the manufacturing therfor (United States Patents # 5,643,343, # 5,711,773 and European Patent # 0730513) • Technology of pulsed cathodic arc plasma synthesis of biocompatible nanostructural carbon coating on artificial heart valves and other medical implants

5. New Technologies • Design and development of new technological pulsed cathodic arc plasma sources for coating de-posit of metal, their nitrides and carbides . • Research and development Arc-DLC coating deposition by pulsed cathodic arc plasma sources on metals, semicon-ductors, ceramics and plastics.

6. New Technologies

7. Application of the Technologies 1. Coating of Manufacturing Tools : • Cutting tools for non ferrous metals, wood, plastics, composite materials (drills,scriber, cutters, taps, thread-cutters) • Measuring tools such as limit plug gauges, limit thread plug gauges, flat limit plug gauges, go/no-go ring gauges, screw ring gauges etc; • Punches and dies; • Coating on watch parts for the replacement of ruby stones

8. Application of the Technologies 2. DLC coated measuring tools: Measuring tools such as limit plug gauges, limit thread plug gauges, flat limit plug gauges, go/no-go ring gauges, screw ring gauges etc;

9. Application of the Technologies 3. Coating for Machine-building Super-hard, wear and chemical resistant DLC coatings on: • precision parts of mechanisms and devices; • slider bearings and frictionless bearings; • injectors and stop valves of fuel systems of engines 4.Coating for Optics Industry • Wear resistant DLC coatings on laser mirrors, germanium laser lenses, glasses lenses , interference filters etc. • Optoelectronic wave guides • Decorative architectural glasses.

10. Application of the Technologies 5. Coating on heads for thermographic printing Print heads without coating Print heads coated by DLC film Deposition the DLC films of 1.3 m thickness increases service life in 3 - 4 times in comparison with SiN coating

11. Application of the Technologies 6. Coating for Electronics • Hard coatings on magnetic heads, optic and magnetic and laser disks • Protective and passivating coatings on integral circuits • Manufacturing of UV-light diodes and displays • Hard antiadhesive coatings on the electrodes for micro welding 7. Medicine • Biocompatible trombusresistant carbon coating on artificial heart valves and other medical implants

12. Application of the Technologies 7. Medicine • Biocompatible trombusresistant carbon coating on artificial heart valves and other medical implants • Index of the thrombocyte test more 4.5 • Period of endotelization 30 days

13. Application of the Technologies

14. Application of the Technologies 7. Pressure and temperature sensors Pressure sensor DD-AT-3P • pressure range 0.1...{0.6,1.0,1.6} MPa • measurement accuracy 0.5 % • supply voltage 9 … 16V Impact detector DUN-AT-01 • pressure range 0.06…0.16 MPa • output signal range 0 … 4.0 mA • measurement accuracy 0.4 % Temperature sensor DT-TP-002M • temperature range -60 … +200 oC • measurement accuracy 0.5 %

15. OUR PARTNERS CIS Partners • Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute (Russia) • Research Institute for Automobile Technology • Moscow State University (Russia) • Kharkov Technical University (Ukraine) • Institute of Supperhard Materials (Ukraine)

16. OUR PARTNERS Foreign Partners • Research Centre of 3M Company, U.S.A. • Florida State University, U.S.A. • University of Applied Science Deggendorf , Germany • Rostock University, Germany • ADNERY Ltd. Company, Israel • VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland and University of Helsinki, Finland • Zbrojevka Jablunka Company, Ltd , Czech Republic

17. Cooperation we are looking for Science collaboration in the field: • Physics thin solid films and surfaces of solid • High temperature super conductivity • Pulsed arc plasma physics Research and Development • New technologies of DLC coating, multi-elements and multi-layers coatings for different application • Technological high rate pulsed arc plasma accelerates for coating of new materials Industrial Application • Looking for joint ventures partner for elaboration of the thin film and coating technology and equipment