HIPIMS conference in Braunschweig 2017
On June 13th and 14th, 2017, the annual HIPIMS conference took place in Braunschweig. Since eight years, the two-day conference offers scientists as well as industrial operators to discuss physcial questions of pulsed high power impulse magnetron discharges. The place of conference changes every year between the Sheffield Hallam University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films.
Julian Held, Vincent Layes, Wolfgang Breilmann from the RUB were joining this conferene contributing one oral presentation and one poster.
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Prof. Ferreira at PD Dr. Horst Fichtner's group
In the frame of the bilateral German-South African BMBF-NRF foundation Prof. Dr. Stefan Ferreira from North-West-University, Campus Potchefstroom is going to visit the group of PD Dr. Horst Fichtner in Bochum between 19th and 25th November 2017. After 2016, it is the second visit of Prof. Ferreira in Germany within the fruitful collaboration.
Carles Corbella at CIP conference
Jan Benedikt, Dennis Engel, Denis Eremin, Ante Hecimovic and Carles Corbella (image) participated at the joint conference CIP-MIATEC 2017, which took place during June 26-30 in Nice, France.
Plasma processing of materials was the main topic of the meeting. These participants contributed with oral and poster presentations to disseminate the activities related to the collaborative research centre SFB-TR 87.
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Roeland Schelfhout visits research group applied plasma physics
Being part of the Cod-to-Doc program in the SFB-TR 87, Vincent Layes from the research group applied plasma physics visited the research group of Prof. Depla from the Ghent University in September 2015. Now the PhD student from Ghent University, Roeland Schelfhout, came to work together with Vincent Layes at the RUB from June 19th, until June 30th, 2017. He had a seminar talk about "The reactive sputtering process from a target point of view" on June 29th, 2017.
The scientific goal of both PhD canditates for this time is "Thorough XPS investigation of the poisoning evolution along the racetrack for an aluminum target, sputtered in an argon/oxygen atmosphere in both standard DC sputtering as well as in HiPIMS."