Qilin Fu demonstrated HIPPOCAMP project at the 6th Surface Engineering Seminar hosted by Swedish Production Society at KTH.

By introducing the HIPIMS technology, advanced surface generation by our coating technology shows impressive improvement on surface quality and roughness, over conventional technology such as arc discharge evaporation and DC sputtering. Recent advances in HIPIMS power supply is demonstrated with higher discharge power while suppressing arcing discharge. It has opened more possibilities of using HIPIMS technology for other types of coatings. The concept of HIPPOCAMP has attracted other researchers’ interest with basic research focusing at the physical principle of damping mechanism in materials.

Daniel Lundin from Ionautics participated at the last ICMCTF conference/industrial fair in San Diego where he explained details about the HiPIMS technology which is Ionautics' contribution to Hippocamp European project. In addition to introducing this plasma technology, the conference was a proper place for networking and get in touch with several large manufacturers of deposition equipment , who could be also looking into the possibility of implementing our HiPIMS Pulsing hardware (HiPSTER units) into their product line.

The 6M meeting of HIPPOCAMP project took place in IK4-Ideko on 12^nd of March and in Soraluce on13^rd. The project officer, Gustaf Winroth, attended the meeting as well as the consortium members. The meeting was held in order to inform about the project statement, update the last activities and make a plan of the tasks that each participant is going to carry out during the following months.