ISSPMT
Institute of Solid State Physics, Materials Science and Technologies
NAS of Ukraine

History of development of vacuum-arc method of synthesis of ion-plasma coatings

Defense of thesis
Bulat-2

  • 1965…1972 - first positive results of vacuum arc use for production of reinforcing coatings;
  • 1970…1974 - development and manufacture of 20 installations of the type "Bulat" for plants of Kharkov;

Bulat-3

  • 1974 - foundation of specialized laboratory for vacuum-arc coatings;
  • 1978 - foundation and organizing of industrial output of installation “Bulat-3”;
Bulat-6

Bulat-6

  • 1979 - sale of license to technology TiN and installation Bulat-3 to USA;
  • Development of principally new units in comparison with Bulat-3 and development on their base of industrial installation Bulat-6, organization of its full-scale production;
spares

Details gasdynamic supports
onboard gyro aircraft
coated of DLC (convex hemlsphere)
and TiN(concave hemisphere)

  • 1979…1990 - solving of the problem of full-scale industrial use in USSR of vacuum-arc coatings for hardening of tools;
  • 1983-1985 - solving of the problem of development of “wear resistant” friction pairs;
Establish processes

  • 1981-1991 - development of the processes and equipment for protection of nuclear, fuel and structural material from corrosion in operational conditions;

Bulat TNP5

Process chamber Bulat TNP-5

  • 1992 - broadening of investigation scale, foundation of specialized department of ion-plasma modification of surface;
  • 1988-1995 - development and realization of series of “low temperature” technology;

multilayer products

  • 1992-1999 - development, production and realization in Ukraine and outside of installations “Bulat-TNP-3, TNP-4, TNP-5” with low-temperature technologies;
  • 1997-1999 - production of pioneer processes and installation for production of multilayer self-carrying articles

E110 and ZrNb

Vitaliy Belous,doctor of technical sciences(right)
with foreign partners (left)

  • 1995-2013 - exit on the world market with our products (China, USA, Armenia, South Korea, Germany, Russia);

lines of investigation

Many globular coating(Ti+TiN)6

globular coating

Implants

oxide Ti

Bacterial coating based on oxide Ti
doped Mo,Cr.

E110 and ZrNb

Photo fuel tubes of zirconium alloy
(E110 and ZrNb) after atmospheric

  • 1990-2015 - development of new lines of investigation, development of new processes and equipment (diamond coatings and films, transparent and thermal reflecting coatings, “no-wear’ super thin coatings for recording systems of PC, bactericide coatings on implants, electro-and thermal resistant coatings for international apparatus “ITER”, multifunctional nanostructure coatings, corrosion, thermal and radiation-resistant coating for protection of zirconium from failure in emergency situations with the loss of heat-transfer agent in WWER ( conditions of Fukusima);

Bulat-10

Bulat-10

plasma separator

Contemporary source of plasma


plasma separator

The long length cathode assembly

  • 1992-2013 - production of new equipment (plasma generator for coating of inner surfaces of hollow articles, high-capacity sources of plasma and separators etc).

Recognition of significance of development for vacuum-arc processes, technologies, equipment

USSR Winners of prize

  • 1986 -State award of USSR. Winners: A.A.Romanov (left), A.A. Andreev (right);

Award of the Council of Ministers of the USSR

Award of the USSR

Strel'nitskij

first license

  • Large-scale production of installation of the type “Bulat” for general use in industry of USSR;
  • 1979 - sale of first in the history of NSC KIPT license for technology of deposition of TiN on cutting instrument in USA;

Aksenov

Ivan Aksenov - winner of the Council
of Ministers of the USSR in 1986
and the international Prize
Manfred Von Ardenne in 2003 in Applied Physics.

  • 1982 - Sale of license in Czechoslovakia .I.I.Aksenov, A.I.Getman, I.S. Gladkiy, A.Chikrizhov;
  • 2003 - Award of international prize of Manfred von Arden on applied physics to I.I.Aksenov;

Belous

Vitaliy Belous - deputy
director of ISSPMT of NSC KIPT

coating of metals

Ivan Nekludov - general
manager of KIPT

  • 2010 - obtaining of international patent on discovery in the field of interaction of gamma-radiation with composition nanostructural materials 2010 (V.A.Belous, I.M.Neklyudov);

plasma separator

The plasma separator

  • 2012 - sale of the first in the history of ISSPMT of international license for plasma separator to the Dutch firm. V.E.Strelnitskiy, V.V.Vasiliyev, V.A.Belous, A.A.Luchaninov;

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