Minute of coordination meeting on project

INTAS 01-686

Development of ultra-low-noise superconducting devices for high frequency detection

Held during the 6th International Workshop “From Andreev Reflection to the International Space Station” (6WARISS) under INTAS support grant.

Presented participants:

L.Kuzmin, Chalmers University, Sweden, co-ordinator
J.Mygind, Lyngby University, Denmark, team leader,
M.Tarasov, IREE, Moscow, Russia, deputy team leader,
V.Kurt, Astro Space Center, Russia, participant,
V.Gromov, ASC, Russia, participant,
A.Kosov, IKI, Russia, participant,
V.Koshelets, IREE, Russia, team leader of INTAS project,
G.Goltsman, MPGU, Russia, team leader of several INTAS projects,
V.Zakosarenko, IPHT, Jena, Germany, possible future partner,
D.Anghel, Norway, possible future participant,
A.Golubov, The Netherlands, possible future participant,
C.Meny, France, possible future participant
A. Ustinov, Germany, possible participant

“NTAS bridges scientific communities through partnership. It supports innovative scientists by funding joint high-quality research projects, which aim to advance scientific knowledge for the mutual benefit of NIS and INTAS Members States”

During this meeting, the workprogram (WP) and schedule of the project were discussed in details. Participants of present project presented their reports on progress in executing the WP and problems met so far. Many concrete suggestions were made by participants for improving real cooperation between partners of INTAS projects. Necessary corrections were included in task allocation table and list of participants. The scheme of payments in the framework of the project was another point of the discussion. As result of discussion and taking into account

the basic principle of INTAS when western partners don’t get real money (20%) but coordinate activity of NIS partners and get all scientific production in scope of cooperation,
serious critics from INTAS on absence of real cooperation between Eastern and Western partners in our project, and
the problems with realization of some items of workprogramme of previous 3 year project, the following principles have been suggested:

Each FSU participant chooses a Western partner – customer of their production. No works without Western partner will be accepted for realization
Payments will be made after acceptance of work by Western partner.
Payments will be made on 3 months basis.

Concerning the hot-electron bolometer activity, there was discussion on intensification of bolometer fabrication and measurements. The following suggestions were made for this purpose:

Development of bolometer fabrication in IREE and MSU in addition to regularly acting Chalmers center
Possible extension of sample fabrication to MSPU and Tbilisi University
Development of regularly acting measurement centres at DTU, Lyngby, in cooperation with Tbilisi University and at Chalmers University for dc and high frequency bolometer qualification
Possible extension of bolometer measurements to DLR, Berlin, (photon counters) and Jyväskylä University (SNS noise measurements)
Additional request on bolometer samples has been obtained from ASC, Moscow (a set of "models" for full-scale space-qualification tests and a simplified bolometric instrument suitable for installing on SAO 6-meter telescope for astronomical observations).

Participants have also exchange their experience in different INTAS projects and discussed the most effective ways of coordination of joint work to achieve the promised results.