Specialist in the field of vacuum deposition; studies of problems associated with discharge physics

Simulation of generation of coatings by ionized flows: thermal processes on the coating growth surface

The impact made by flows of low-energy particles on the structure and properties of coatings

Described in the monograph Tekhnologiya i oborudovanie vakuumnogo napyleniya (Technology of and Equipment for Vacuum Deposition), Moscow: Metallurgiya, 1992.

A method of vacuum evaporation of metals has been developed

Main publications:

1. M.M. Nikitin, Discharge in the Vacuum Deposition Technology, in Plenki i pokrytiya 2001, Trudy 6-oi Mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii (Films and Coatings 2001: Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference), St. Petersburg: SPbGTU, 2001 (in Russian).
2. M.M. Nikitin, Low-Energy Ions in the Processes of Vacuum Deposition, in 5-aya Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsiya VITT-2003 (VITT-2003 5^th International Conference), Minsk, 2003 (in Russian).
3. M.M. Nikitin, V.F. Brekhovskikh, and A.V. Shalimov, Temperature Rise on a Substrate in the Process of Vacuum Deposition, in Trudy 5-oi Vserossiiskoi nauchno-tekhnicheskoi konferentsii “Bystrozakalennye materially i pokrytiya” (Proceedings of the 5^th All-Russia Scientific-and-Technical Conference on Fast-Hardened Materials and Coatings), Moscow: Moscow Inst. of Aviation Technology (MATI), 2006 (in Russian).
4. M.M. Nikitin, Nucleation and Growth of Films under Conditions of Vacuum Deposition, Poverkhnost’ RAN, 2006, no. 10, p. 69 (in Russian).

 

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