Professor Papken Hovsepian heads the Thin Films Research Group at the National HIPIMS Technology Centre at Sheffield Hallam University in UK.
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His major field of endeavour is fundamental research and development of industrial technologies for deposition of nanoscale multilayer/superlattice structured PVD coatings for applications in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, advanced manufacturing and other industries. He is a worldwide recognised expert in various plasma based coating deposition techniques such as Magnetron Sputtering, Cathodic Arc Evaporation and High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, HIPIMS.