School "Functional Coatings"

Time schedule
Start of the school: Monday, 23.01.2012
End of the school: Friday, 27.01.2012

School description:
Surfaces have a very important role for the function of many products. Surface treatments and coatings can modify the surface properties strongly and can thus contribute to achieve new or improved product functions. One of the most important areas of functional coatings is tribology, where hard and superhard coatings are applied to increase the wear resistance, to improve the anti-adhesion tendency or to change the friction coefficient of a substrate.

This school will give an introduction to the state of the art of tribological thin-film coatings: material composition, deposition processes and analysis techniques. This will be achieved by lectures as well as by practical demonstrations and trainings. This topic will be complemented by an introduction to Design of Experiments (statistical experiment planning).
The school is part of the Marie-Curie Initial Training Network "Macro, Micro and Nano Aspects of Machining - MaMiNa". It is open for MaMiNa Early Stage Reasearchers as well as for external participants. It addresses master students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers.
The school is split in part A that will take place in Lodz, Poland, and part B, which will take place in Braunschweig, Germany.

Hosts:
Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Technical University of Lodz (LUT), Poland
Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Technology and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany

General Programme:
Theoretical lectures (total 2 days)
Practical work (total 1 day)
2 evening social events

Terms of participation
Participation is possible for both parts or only for part A or part B. Please apply for each part seperately following the deadline, see below!
As the number of participants is restricted the registration will be made on a first come - first serve basis.
The participation is free of charge. It includes lunches, drinks during the breaks and lecture materials (book "Functional Coatings" by Prof. Bogdan Wendler + CD of the presentations). Participants must pay for their travel and accomodation. Expenses during the social events are not included.

Deadline for application: 04.01.2012
Application for part A (Lodz): by e-mail to m.makowka@gmail.com
Application for part B (Braunschweig): by e-mail to seda.erbas@ist.fraunhofer.de
Together with the registration acknowledgement you will receive information about travel and accomodation.

Location
Part A: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Technical University of Lodz, Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90924 Lodz, Poland (Next airport is Warsaw).
Part B: Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Bienroder Weg 54 E, 38108 Braunschweig, Germany (Next airport is Hannover).

Programme Part A
Venue: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Technical University of Lodz, Stefanowskiego 1/15, 90924 Lodz, Poland

23rd January 2012

12:00 - 13:00	Lunch in a students' mess-room at LUT
13:00 - 14:00	Lecture: Introduction to Thin Films I	Prof. Piotr Niedzielski, LUT
14:00 - 15:00	Lecture: Basics of vacuum deposition	Dr. Wojciech Pawlak, LUT
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 17:15	Practical training: Vacuum and plasma technology	Dr. Wojciech Pawlak, LUT
17:15 - 18:30	Break / Accomodation in IBIS Hotel Lodz
19:00 - 22:00	1st social event: Manufaktura - Lodz Shopping & Leisure Center

24th January 2012

09:00 - 10:00	Lecture: Introduction to thin films II	Prof. Piotr Niedzielski, LUT
10:00 - 11:00	Lecture: Diamond CVD	Dr. Lothar Schaefer, IST
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:15	Lecture: CVD diamond tools	Dr. Jan Gaebler, IST
12:15 - 13:15	Lecture: Functional coatings I - Modern tribological coatings	Prof. Bogdan Wendler, LUT
13:15 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Lecture: Functional coatings II - Coatings for cutting tools	Prof. Bogdan Wendler, LUT
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 17:00	Lecture: Superhard nanocomposite coatings	Prof. Bogdan Wendler, LUT
17:00 - 18:00	Practical training: Deposition of a superhard nanocomposite nc-TiN/SI3N4 coating by a new gas pulse MS method	Massimo Lorusso, Ivan Progalskiy, LUT

25th January 2012
Travel from Lodz to Braunschweig

Further information about part A:
Technical University of Lodz
Prof. Bogdan Wendler, Head Dept. Coatings' Engineering
Phone +48 426 312 265
E-mail: bogdan.wendler@p.lodz.pl
www.hardcoating.eu



Programme Part B
Venue: Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST Bienroder Weg 54 E, 38108 Braunschweig, Germany

26th January 2012

09:00 - 10:00	Lecture: Amorphous carbon films (DCL)	Dr. Klaus Bewilogua, IST
10:00 - 11:00	Lecture: Cubic boron nitride (c-BN) coatings	Dr. Martin Keunecke, IST
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:45	Lecture: Plasma diffusion treatment of steel, stainless steel, Ti, Al and other metals	Peter Kaestner, TUBS
12:45 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Lecture: Plasma diffusion treatment of hard coatings	Prof. Bogdan Wendler, LUT
14:30 - 15:30	Lecture: Analysis of surfaces and coatings I - Secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS), Electron probe micro analysis (EPMA)	Dr. Kirsten Schiffmann, IST
15:30 - 15:45	Break
15:45 - 18:15	Practical demonstration: Analysis of surfaces and coatings II - Rockwell C test, Calotte grinding test, Confocal microscope	Reinhold Bethke, IST
Evening	Social event

27th January 2012

09:00 - 09:45	Lecture: Analysis of surfaces and coatings III - X-ray photon spectroscopy (XPS)	N.N., IST
09:45 - 10:30	Practical demonstration: Analysis of surfaces and coatings IV - Sandblasting test for diamond coatings	Antje Hagemann, IST
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:45	Lecture: Design of experiments . Introduction	Dr. Markus Höfer, IST
11:45 - 12:45	Practical demonstration: Design of experiments - Practical implementation for the planning of deposition processes	Seda Erbas, IST
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch

Further information about part B:
Fraunhofer IST
Dr. Jan Gäbler, Project Manager Department Diamond Technology
Phone +49 531 2155 625
E-mail: jan.gaebler@ist.fraunhofer.de
www.ist.fraunhofer.de