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Completed projects between August 2009 and January 2010


Project #2753, "Creation of Prototype of Multi-Charged Ion Source Based on ECR Discharge Sustained by Powerful Gyrotron Radiation with High-Current Beam and Pulse Frequency Repetition up to 1 Hz"

Project #2753, "Creation of Prototype of Multi-Charged Ion Source Based on ECR Discharge Sustained by Powerful Gyrotron Radiation with High-Current Beam and Pulse Frequency Repetition up to 1 Hz",was completed last December at the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
A prototype of pulsed ECR source of multy-charged ions with repetition rate up to 1 Hz has been created. Plasma is produced in superconductive magnetic trap by powerful pulsed gyrotron radiation at 37.5 GHz using electron-cyclotron resonance. Ion beams with high current is generated using high frequency of microwave radiation and quasi-gasdynamic regime of plasma confinement in the magnetic trap. The prototype can been used for experimental and theoretical studies, in particular for study of confinement regime of strongly non-equilibrium plasma.


Project #3098, "High-Effective Methods of Investigation and Modelling of the Barrier Discharges for Optimization of Plasma Display Panels and Excimer Lamps", was completed in December 2009 at the ITMO, St Petersburg, Russia. The objectives of the project were to accomplish complex theoretical and experimental investigations which would enable to research and to optimize the main physical characteristics in barrier discharge lamps and in PDP macrocells models. Twenty types of excimer lamps with different constructions (coaxial, flat ones, with quartz and ceramics е~4000 barriers, with additional covering of barriers with MgO layer) filled with inert gases, their mixes and mixes with с I2 , SF6, CCl4, C2Cl3F3, CCl2F2, NF3 have been made. Eight different types of PDP macrocells have been made, 6 DBD power supplies ( sine voltage, unipolar and bipolar pulses) and 2 UV-VUV power receivers were assembled. Pilot experiments devoted to VUV emission destruction of dioxin like substance have been created.


Project #3201, "Elements for Micro- and Nanoelectromechanics Based on the Whiskers of Quasi One-Dimentional Conductors and HTSCs", was completed in November 2009 at the Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Moscow, Russia. The main goal of the project was the elaboration of elements of electromechanical devices with submicron dimensions. The idea was to make use of the high sensitivity of the dimensions and form of the Peierls conductors to electric field – an analogue of the piezo effect. Two optical methods of torsional strain (TS) registration have been elaborated. Voltage-induced TS is observed up to room temperature and above it. The TS is associated with non-local surface shear of the CDW coupled to the crystal shear. The voltage-induced torsional strain could be treated in terms of enormous piezoelectric coefficients (>10-4 cm/V) corresponding to shear. CDW compounds appear to be powerful torsional actuators based on the unique intrinsic property of the CDW. Features in thermal expansion at the phase transitions were found in the CDW and high-Tc superconducting whiskers.


Project #3097,"Development of Methods to Research Atmosphere Contaminations, Conditions of Formation and Composition of Airplanes' Condensation Trails",was successfully completed in December 2009. The Project was implemented at the Gromov Flight Research Institute (Zhukovsky, Moscow region), in cooperation with experts from AIRBUS and European Project AERONET III.
The flexible format of the ISTC project allowed to involve a range of institutes such as: The Central Institute of Aviation Motors (CIAM), Central Aerological Observatory (TsAO), Moscow State University, Skobeltsin Institute of Nuclear Physics and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
A quantitative forecasting model of formation steady contrails in a near field at flights of planes with various types of gas turbine engines was developed.
The developed model was tested at series of the flight experiments with flying laboratory on the base of Tu-154 (LL). Comparison of the calculation and flight tests results has shown a good reliability of the Project results.

Outcome: A unique quantitative model for forecasting and estimation of the contrail formation conditions and reduction of aviation impact on Global climate.


Project #K-1117,“Development of Technology of Electra- and Heatconductive Metallized Polyimide Constructs with High Reflectivity”, was completed in December 2009. The Project was implemented at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Kazakh National University, in Kazakhstan.
A pilot testing of industrial technology for production of metalized polymeric films and coating was developed by the Project team in close cooperation with EU Collaborators - University of Montpellier 2 and Paul Cezanne University of Marseille, in France.
The technology includes helio-synthesis of new monomers and their polymerization; polymer processing to film casting with final stage of their metallization involving renewable solar energy to minimize industrial pollution due to encircled operations.
High distribution nano-grade of metal has exceeded parameters of similar products existing on today’s market. The metalizing process stands out because of the relatively low energy required for production, which promises low technological prime cost to manufacture. The team is preparing a new project for the testing of an experimental-production line with a productive capacity of up to 20 meters of metal-coated polymeric films per day at various thicknesses. Additionally, the researches plan to perform testing of their prototypes at the Russian section of the International Space Station.
Outcome:The end commercial products using development results are flexible base/board of electronics and radio-technical devices with long operational life; light reflecting devices or venetian blinds and so on. Thermo-stability and flexibility of the developed polymeric films provides adaptability of manufacture and broad assortment of the end commercial products


Project #A-1241, "Non-Linear Quantum Few-State Models", was completed in December 2009 at the Institute for Physical Research / Engineering and Physics Laboratory, Ashtarak-2, Armenia. The monograph is planned to be published by the World Scientific Publishing House in the summer of 2010. The monograph contains the following sections: Linear quantum two-state models; Linear quantum three-state models; Quadratic-nonlinear quantum two-state models; Landau-Zener term crossing; Advanced two-state models; Cubic-nonlinear quantum two-state models; Mathematical additions.

Project #T-1157,"Modeling and Investigation of Characteristics of Solid-State Converters of Neutron Radiation for Increasing the Registration Efficiency of Detectors"was completed in November 2009 at the Physical-Technical Institute, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The project team created a universal detector capable of working in 2 modes: multi wire proportional chamber and multistep avalanche chamber. The developed detector can be applied to the registration conversion electrons emitted by the converters at registration neutron and gamma radiations.


Project #2391, "Development of Methods for Encapsulation of Long-lived Nuclear Waste in the Carbon Matrices for Storage and Transmutation" carried out at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Gatchina, was completed during the last quarter. Different options of synthesis and pyrolysis/carbonization processes have been elaborated for the Carbon matrices aimed at immobilization of long-lived radionuclides.
The results demonstrated that the developed matrices exhibit the physicochemical properties meeting the requirements imposed on the matrices for storage and final disposal of radioactive waste with thermal and chemical stability, mechanical strength and radiation resistance.
The Institute of Macromolecular Compounds and Khlopin Radium Institute in St Petersburg has contributed as supporting institute. The company Kinectrics Inc. in Toronto, ON, Canada, acted as a Foreign Collaborator on the project.
Nine papers were published in scientific journals or Conference proceedings and 4 presentations were made at 3 international conferences or workshops during the course of the project.
The project lasted for 36 months and the total budget was $377,090.000 US dollars.
Further information about ISTC is available at the web-site http://www.istc.ru or sent an e-mail to istcinfo@istc.ru. Information can also be obtained by taking direct contact with the Center in Moscow: +7 (495) 982 32 64.

Project #2682p, Prooxidant/antioxidant state of infective drop as related to plant disease resistance, funded by the US Department of Agriculture, was successfully completed in the last quarter of 2009. Using the pathosystem of rice blast disease, the novel interrelated processes of extracellular production and scavenging of reactive oxygen species were revealed at the earliest stage of host-parasite interaction. New modes of reactive oxygen action in disease resistance and antioxidant action in pathogenicity were reported. This basic research provides gives grounds for further research on innate disease resistance and novel inducers of resistance.
Lead Institute: Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology in Moscow region
Collaborators: ARS USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.