Founded in December, 1991 on the basis of the Sumy Department of G. V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics Institute, set up in April, 1989.
Main study areas of the Institute are:
- quantum electrodynamics in strong fields;
- studies of low-energy ion/electron beam interactions with matter;
- electrostatic accelerator design and construction;
- development of accelerator-based nuclear microprobe facilities;
- microstructure research into reactor materials and biological objects;
- development of science-teaching aids.
The latest achievements of the Institute are:
A nuclear scanning microprobe, relying on 2MV electrostatic accelerator as a part of the IAP analytical accelerator-based facility, was brought into operation in 2007. The ion beam was focused using an integrated microprobe-forming system with two doublets of magnet quadrupole lenses of novel design. The beam spot size of 1.2x2 µm2 (FWHM) was obtained for the total beam current of »100 пА.
SOKIL electrostatic accelerator
Nuclear scanning microprobe based on the electrostatic 2MV accelerator