Division of Thin Film Technologies

The main areas of the Division's activities: -> study of layer deposition processes by PVD methods, -> design, construction, modernization, and manufacture of vacuum components (electron guns, magnetrons) and service of these devices working in other scientific/research units, fabrication of thin films by magnetron sputtering, -> diagnostics of optical properties of materials using the light transmission method and the photoconductance method, -> diagnostics of electrical properties of materials by thermoelectric, current-voltage measurements, -> studies of the thin-film multifunctional nanomaterials properties, -> testing of laboratory PV cells and modules, and long-term measurements of PV systems under natural conditions.