Ivan Georgiev Petrov | |
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| Иван Георгиев Петров | |
 Petrov in 2020 | |
| Born | (1949-09-06)6 September 1949 (age 75) Shumen, Bulgaria |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Sofia University Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| Known for | High-power impulse magnetron sputtering |
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| Fields | Physics Materials science |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Linköping University |
Ivan Georgiev Petrov (Bulgarian:Иван Георгиев Петров; born 6 September 1949) is a Bulgarian-Americanphysicist specializing inthin films,surface science, and methods ofcharacterization of materials. His research and scientific contributions have been described as having an "enormous impact on the hard-coatings community".[1] Petrov was the president of theAmerican Vacuum Society for 2015.
Ivan Petrov was born in 1949 inShumen, Bulgaria.[2] For high school, he attended theEnglish Language School Geo Milev inRuse, graduating in 1968. He studied physics atSofia University where he earned aMSc in 1974. He earned hisPhD in physics from the Institute of Electronics at theBulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986, after which he became an associate professor until 1989.[2]
In 1989 he moved to theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in collaboration with professorJ. E. Greene, serving initially as a visiting professor. From 1998 until 2010, he was an adjunct professor in the department of materials science and engineering, simultaneously serving as the director of the Center for Microanalysis of Materials at theSeitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL).[2] From 1998 to the present, he is a principal research scientist at the MRL.
Between 2000 and 2012 Petrov was an honorary visiting professor of Surface Engineering at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute ofSheffield Hallam University in England.[2] Since 2010 he is an adjunct professor in the department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM) atLinköping University[3] in Sweden, where he was awarded anhonoris causa degree in 2009.
He was elected chair of the surface engineering division of theInternational Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications, serving terms from 2007 to 2022.
In 2014 he was elected as president of theAmerican Vacuum Society for 2015.[4]
Petrov's research elucidated the ways to obtain high-quality thin films, at low substrate temperatures, from refractory materials, such astransition metal nitrides, through the use of high-fluxes of low-energy ions.[5]
He co-authored the seminal papers onHigh-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) which demonstrated that this technique produces highly ionized metal fluxes and opened additional ways to manipulate films properties.[6][7]
Petrov was one of the principal investigators of theTransmission Electron Aberration-Corrected Microscope (TEAM) project from 2000 to 2009.[8]
He is an author on over 300 publications, which have been cited more than 22,000 times by other scholars.[9]
Ivan Petrov is the son ofGeorgi Petrov, a Bulgarian agronomy professor, and Russanka Petrova. He is married to Vania Petrova, and they have a son Georgi.[2]
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