Technology

- Processing and treatments for Nanotechnology:

  • PVD and CVD processes
  • Surface treatments (Plasma and thermal treatments)
  • Ion beam and plasma etching treatments (IE, RIE, RIBE)
  • Micro and Nanolithography
  • Sol-gel technology (monodispersed silica submicrometric particles)
  • Particles self-assembling processes (spin-coating, Langmuir-Blodgett)
  • Electrochemical deposition processes

- Nanomaterials and nanosystems characterization

  • Structural and morphological characterization
  • Optical and electrical characterization (polarimetry, ellipsometry, interferometric-polarimetry, conductivity, mobility,…)
  • Magnetic characterization (SQUID, Faraday rotation)
  • Ionic transport characterization (voltammetry and amperometry, impedance spectroscopy)
  • Scanning and electronic microscopies (AFM, SEM, FESEM, …)
  • Surface analysis (XRD, LAXRD, SIMS, XPS-Auger, EELS, SAED, …)
  • QMS, TOF-MS

- Spectroscopic characterization techniques:

  • FTIR spectroscopy
  • UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy
  • Raman spectroscopy
  • micro-Raman (and mapping)

- Nanotechnology developments:

  • Nanofiltering (persistent pollutants, nanostructure detection and catching)
  • Electronic implementation (nanotechnology devices)
  • Silicon nanoparticles production technology
  • Core@shell nanoparticles production technology
  • Carbon nanotubes production technology
  • Thin films deposition technology