Electron beam technologies celebrate now 70 years from the first machines and industrial technologies based of application of intense electron beams in vacuum. In the Proceedings of the conferences on EBT in Varna, organized during the last 37 years, the history of ides, the basic objectives in our field and the personal success of two-three generations researchers can be traced. As an example of the flexibility of the subject of interest of participation organizations, the progress in the development and optimization of electron beam applications in nanotechnology and biotechnology, investigations and implementation of selective melting for 3D print structures and a group of sophisticated modern surface treatment methods can be pointed out. These topics were presented together with the remarkable conventional topics as beam physics and generation, electron beam welding, electron beam melting and refining, electron beam evaporation and deposition of functional coatings, electron accelerator applications for modification of various materials, thermal treatment and processing of polymers and composites with an electron beam; electron and ion lithography, ion implantation; laser technologies; modeling physical processes at interaction of intensive electron and ion beams with materials.
The 13-th EBT 2018 conference program included 43 oral presentations and 29 poster presentations from above 200 authors from 17 countries from 3 continents: Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom. 100 participants from different scientific institutions and companies attended the conference. The scientific institutions that made contributions to EBT 2018 conference were: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics RAS (Russia), E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute (Ukraine), Universität Kassel (Germany), Fraunhofer FEP (Germany), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), Hiroshima Institute of Technology (Japan), IHCE SB RAS (Russia), IMT RAS (Russia), Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic), University of Sheffield (UK), Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany), Institute of Welding (Poland), IPCE RAS (Russia), National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (Ramania), NRU MPEI (Russia), Perm National Research Polytechnic University (Russia), Physicaltechnical Institute of the national AS of Belarus, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology (Russia), Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (Russia), TU Bergakademie Freiberg IME (Germany), Unité Matériaux et Transformations – UMET (France), University of Bucharest (Romania), Dalian University of Technology (China), Tsinghua University (China), Seoul National University (Republic of Korea), Kyung Hee University (Republic of Korea), Université des Sciences et de la Technologie d’Oran Mohamed Boudiaf (Algeria), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Institute of Electronics BAS (Bulgaria), University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (Bulgaria), etc.
The industry was presented by the participation of: VON ARDENNE GmbH (Germany), Zenker Consult (Germany), TWI (UK), Vistec Electron Beam GmbH (Germany), Evobeam GmbH (Germany), JSC “PODOLSKCABEL” (Russian Federation), Techmeta (France), NVO Chervona Hvilya (Ukraine), Advanced Technologies Trade (Romania), Bharat Forge Limited (India), Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (UK), Leptons-Technologies (France), PRVA ZVARACSKA, a. s. (Slovakia), TC EPTT Ltd. (Bulgaria), Union of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (Bulgaria), etc.
A selection of 20 manuscripts, presented at the event are be published in a special issue of the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, under the originality and quality criteria of acceptance by the journal, including peer reviewing.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, which had a tremendous effect on all of us, the fourteenth EBT conference was rescheduled from 2020 to 2022.