16th International Symposium on High-Current Electronics (16th SHCE), and the 10th International Conference on Modification of Materials with Particle Beams and Plasma Flows (10th CMM)

The program of the conferences covers a wide range of scientific and technical areas including pulsed power technology, ion and electron beams, high-power microwaves, plasma and particle beam sources, modification of materials, and pulsed power applications in chemistry, biology and medicine.

16th SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS
1.Intense electron and ion beams
Fundamentals of emission properties, emission from plasma, cathode phenomenon, intense beam transportation
2.Pinches, plasma focus and capillary discharge     
Z-pinches, X-pinches, plasma radiation sources, fusion, neutron productions, wire explosion, theory and modeling
3.Pulsed power technology     
Generation of voltage and current pulses, power conditioning, components of high-current devices (energy stores, switches, transmission lines, etc.), compact modulators, repetitive pulsed power, explosive generators
4.High power microwaves     
Vacuum and plasma HPM sources, Cherenkov and gyroresonant devices, vircators, superradiance, microwave pulse compression, problem of pulse shortening
5.Pulsed power applications     
Pulsed power application in technology, chemistry, biology, and medicine

10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODIFICATION OF MATERIALS WITH PARTICLE BEAMS AND PLASMA FLOWS
1.Beam and plasma sources      
Sources of charged and neutral particle beams; plasma sources for modification purposes; hybrid devices and installations for complex material treating
2.Fundamentals of modification processes     Particle-solid and plasma-solid interactions; structural transformations (theory, modeling, experiments)
3.Modification of material properties     
Modification of mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical and corrosion properties of materials; hybrid methods of modification; novel technologies for industry
4.Coating deposition     
Deposition by particle beams, magnetron sputtering, and arc evaporation; surface cleaning, etching, and activation; multi-layer coatings; hybrid processes
5.Beam and plasma nanoscience and nanotechnology     
Beam and plasma for nanoscience and nanotechnology