The Institute of Solid State Physics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSP-BAS) held a workshop on “Nanotechnology and nanomaterials: new equipment in the ISSP-BAS” with representatives of leading companies in the nanotechnology field in Bulgaria at the Inter Expo hotel in Sofia on December 10.

The meeting was held within the framework of Work Package "Increasing Innovation Capacity" of INERA Project "Research and Innovation Capacity Strengthening of ISSP-BAS in Multifunctional Nanostructures".

Representatives of the following companies attended the meeting: „OPTIX“ JSC – Panagyurishte Optix Co, AMG Technology Ltd., HOLDING CIMCOOP, LABEXPERT, as well as representatives of the Bulgarian mint, the Technical University of Sofia, the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, etc.

The INERA project coordinator, Acad. Alexander Petrov, presented the goals and objectives of the project.

Scientific teams working with the advanced equipment, which had been acquired during this year by ISSP with funds from European projects presented it to the participants.

Among the presented equipment were: electrochemical work station for electrical characterization of materials and thin films;automated microfluidic platform and automated handheld cytometer; atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technics for thin layer deposition.

The meeting concluded with a discussion of the possibilities of using the new equipment by the interested parties.