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Presentation of IK4-Tekniker
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30/7-010 (CERN)
Description
IK4-TEKNIKER is a technological centre and legally constituted as a private not-for-profit Foundation. Its mission is to help the industrial sector to increase its innovative capacity by means of generating and applying technology and knowledge in order to be more competitive.
The Surfaces speciality within IK4-TEKNIKER focuses on acquiring, developing and transferring to industry a wide range of technologies related with improving the surface properties of materials, their characterisation and evaluation in service conditions.
One of the traditional activities in this area consists of the vapour phase deposition technologies, especially Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) within the Surface Physics and Technology Unit. In this field we are seeing the development of hard anti-wear, oxidation-resistant coatings for tools and mechanical systems, anti-friction layers and decorative and anti-corrosion coatings as alternatives to those traditionally used in bathrooms, as the latter are often highly contaminating.
During the last years the Surface Physics and Technology Unit has done a great effort to increase his technological offer and started in the field of optical coatings and oxides. In this area IK4-TEKNIKER has developed a solar absorber coating for thermosolar industry and nowadays IK4-TEKNIKER is the project coordinator of an Spanish CENIT project for developing CIGS photovoltaic thin film technology.
As well as developing new coating materials, this line of work also deals with the design and build the equipment needed for it to be applied in both the laboratory and industrially, having developed an innovative technology based on our own patents.
