The Concern long-term Programme includes fundamental and applied research.
The Programme covers a number of nanotechnological trends:
Studies of local properties (relief, work functions, volt-ampere characteristics,
etc.) of various surfaces, formed structures and bio-objects are also the focus problem.
In the field of
nanometrology the following developments are carried out:
- development of methods to test probes and nanomaterials;
- probe-based studies within the nanometer range;
- development of test-objects to be applied for nanotechnologies.
Development and production of
equipment designed for nanoindustry.
In 1998 the first nanotechnological machine complex "Luch-1" was developed
at the Institute for Nanotechnologies, and in 1999 production of the "Luch-2"
machine complex was launched. At present, development of the "Luch-3" new improved
machine complex is under completion. These machine complexes enable to carry
out a wide range of physical and chemical and medical and biological experiments
using nanoobjects in gas and liquid medium.
They are successfully used by the specialists of Concern and other Russian
scientific organizations as well as by students of Moscow
institutes and universities to conduct R&D within the framework of
various projects including the international ones.
The following products are underway and in R&D and production phases:
- manipulators based on piezo-ceramic elements, which can move
objects within the range of fractions of a nanometer to 10 mm (and more) and
have accuracy up to fractions of a micron (in a mode of movement) and fractions
of an Angstrem (in a mode of scanning);
- movement sensors based on capacitive effect;
- reflecting optics with high resolution for video-observation systems;
- highly sensitive seismic and acoustic tunnel sensors.
Another important trend of our activities is hardware and software development for automatic
image conversion and recognition for medical, biological, etc. studies.
