ANNOTATION

Department "MNFMST"

The Department of "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Semiconductor Technologies" (MNFMST) has been established in 2001 due to an incorporation of departments "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals" и "Chemistry and technology of the materials for the microelectronics and electronics elements". At the present time there are two directions: "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals" (MNFM) and "Semiconductor Technologies" (ST).

According to the Higher education law and the approved educative plans and programs in the department have been educated students for educational degree “Bachelor” and “Master” (regular and extramural education form) in the following specialization modules:

For "Bachelor" degree: "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys" and "Semiconductor Materials and Technologies".

For "Master" degree: "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys", "Semiconductor Materials and Technologies", "Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials", "Metrology"

The graduated students with “Bachelor” and “Master” degree receive the qualifications: engineer, engineer-metallurgist, engineer-chemist.

The Department also educates PhD-students on the scientific specialties "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys" and "Technology of Semiconductor Materials and Electronic Elements".

The graduates from the two specialization modules receive knowledge, which gives them the opportunity for realization in Bulgaria or abroad as engineers, technologists, researchers and lecturers.

The engineer-metallurgists could work in the main metallurgical companies in the extractive and processing non-ferrous metallurgy, in designing and trader-management firms, as well as in structures and groups engaged with the solutions of ecological problems. The graduates from the specialization module "Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys" have the knowledge to solve engineer problems with technological, constructive, research and management nature. They could work in the field of extractive non-ferrous metallurgy, receiving of metal powders, production of special and composite materials, pure metals, compounds and salts on the base of non-ferrous metals.

The engineers and engineer-chemists graduated from the specialization module "Semiconductor Materials and Technologies" could work in the field of electronics and microelectronics, as well as in structures and groups engaged with the solution of problems in the technology for production of semiconductors and non-semiconductor materials for different electronic elements, technology of deep purification of the materials for the electronics and microelectronics, synthesis of new chalcogenide materials for the sensorics, synthesis of nanomaterials and nanocomposites with different purposes.

They could find a successful realization in the chemical industry, machine-building, electronics, as well as in different scientific research centers, laboratories and metrological sections.

The scientific research of the Department is oriented on the development of valuable scientific and applicable themes connected with:

- raising of the degree of extraction of valuable components from raw materials, study of the properties of metallurgical smelts and slag and decrease of metal losses in them, decrease of the industrial pollution from lead-zinc production

- technology of electronic elements, technology of semiconductors and supra pure substances for the electronics and microelectronics, as well as with the synthesis of new nanomaterials and nanocomposites and their characterization.

For support of the educational and scientific-research work there are laboratories of:

- IR spectroscopy for analysis of inorganic and organic substances, as well as of thin films with IR spectrophotometer EQUINOX 55 (Brucker) with Fourier transformation for the middle IR spectrum range

- Derivatographic analysis with derivatograph STA-429 NETZSCH

- Sedimentative analysis for determination of particles size type SA-CP2 (Shimazdu)

The academic staff of the department is formed by highly qualified lecturers – associate professors with scientific degrees. The department has professional contacts with universities in France, Germany, Belgium, Macedonia, Russia, as well as with scientific organizations as the Mining and metallurgy academy – Krakov, Consortium “Interoceanmetal” – Shcetchin (Poland), Balkan union of the metallurgists, Union of the scientists in Bulgaria, scientific centers and institutes in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.