- After the 20 years
operation, the PNPI electrostatic
accelerator and neutron generator continue to be ones of
the most active facilities in investigations of
materials by the nuclear physics methods. The
simultaneous use of these methods (a proton
induced X - ray emission, a Rutherford
backscattering spectrometry and a nuclear action
analysis) in the single installation allows to
obtain unique, detail and precise information on
a composition, a structure and properties of
investigated sample from one experiment. These
techniques permit to investigate thin films, near
surface region of solids, thin wires one its
destruction.
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- The main
directions of investigations include:
- research of high
temperature superconductivity materials (films,
crystals, ceramics),
- investigation of
fullerene containing materials,
- research of metal
nanoclusters in dielectric matrices of
hydrogenated amorphous carbon -CH,
- investigation of
lithium diffusion mechanism and intercalation
processes in nanoporous carbon materials,
- aging
investigations of straw drift-tubes, proposed for
experiments on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and
Deutches Electronen Synchrotron (DESY).