Phone 0114 225 3646
Fax 0114 225 3501
E-mail a.ehiasarian@shu.ac.uk
Arutiun is Head of the HIPIMS Technology Centre and Director of the Joint SHU-Fraunhofer IST HIPIMS Research Centre opened in 2010. He is part of the Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research since 1998 where he obtained his PhD in Plasma Science and Surface Engineering after undergraduate studies at the University of Sofia 'St Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria, and obtaining the degree of BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics from the University of Salford, UK.
His research concentrates on development of plasma PVD technologies to improve the properties and performance of coatings used for wear, oxidation and corrosion protection in automotive and aerospace industries, as well as through-silicon via metallisation for semiconductor wafer processing, thin film photovoltaics, and cryogenic materials. He has developed technologies for substrate pretreatment prior to coating deposition to improve adhesion, deposition of coatings with dense microstructure, low-pressure plasma nitriding and hybrid processes of plasma nitriding/coating deposition. He has experience with cathodic vacuum arc discharges, dc and pulsed magnetron discharges, and radio-frequency coil enhanced magnetron sputtering. He utilises plasma diagnostics such as optical emission spectroscopy (OES), electrostatic probes, energy-resolved mass spectroscopy and atomic absorption spectroscopy. Materials characterisation includes high-resolution TEM, STEM, STEM-EDS, SEM, and XRD as well as mechanical testing available at NTCPVD.
Arutiun is one of the pioneers of high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) technology and his work on plasma diagnostics, coating deposition and pretreatment with HIPIMS has received four awards including
- AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award for seminal contributions to the science and application of High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering in 2010
- Huttinger Industrial Accolade Award of recognition 2008, for the successful development of the first industrially viable HIPIMS Magnetron Power Supply, introduced to market by the legal predecessor of Huttinger Electronic Sp. z.o.o in 2003
- R F Bunshah Award acknowledging a best paper presented at the International Conference on Metallurgical Thin Films and Coatings (ICMCTF) 2002, San Diego, USA
- TecVac Prize for best presentation at Materials Congress 2002, London, UK
He is an author of more than 50 publications, 20 invited lectures and five patents in the field of PVD and HIPIMS.
Arutiun is actively involved in the scientific community
- Symposium Chair at the International Conference on Metallurgical Thin Films and Coatings (ICMCTF) organised by the American Vacuum Society (AVS), USA
- Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee at the Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC), USA
- Chair of the International Conference on HIPIMS organised jointly by Sheffield Hallam University and Fraunhofer IST.
He has recently been elected as a UK representative at the Advanced Surface Engineering Division of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and its Applications (IUVSTA), and Member of the British Vacuum Council.
All of Arutiun's papers can be accessed at SHURA.
