Advanced fabrication and characterization of functional materials

Facing the crucial challenges for our society -such assustainable development, health, information technologies- requires the ability to imagine and create advanced materials with innovative properties controlling their composition, structure and morphology at the micro and nanoscale. The combination of different nano-systems in fact opens up a new world to explore, with properties and phenomena that are not the simple sum of those of individual objects, with possibilities for completely new applications. The application areas of these systems range from catalysis, photovoltaics and tribology to those inherent in ICT developments, such as nano-electronics, spin- and opto-electronics, nano-mechanics and new quantum technologies.

The activities at FIM are focused on:

• Nanofabrication
  Electron-beam lithography and FIB
  On-surface synthesis
  Nanoparticle physical deposition
• Tribology and nanomechanics
  Graphene and 2D materials
  Multiscale surface modifications
  Hard coatings and self-lubricants
• Surface spectroscopies and microscopies
  Oxide films, nanostructures and nanoparticles for sustainable energy solutions
  Graphene nanostructures and 2D metal-dichalcogenides systems
  Hybrid molecular magnets/inorganic substrate interfaces
• Transmission Electron Microscopy spectroscopy and diffraction
  Electron Holography of magnetic materials and electromagnetic fields
  Orbital angular momentum (OAM) resolved /EELS
  Basic experiment in quantum mechanics exploiting the TEM

Faculty
Marco Affronte, Antonio Ballestrazzi, Roberto Biagi, Sergio D’Addato, Valentina De Renzi, Stefano Frabboni, Claudia Menozzi, Alberto Rota, Rita Tonini, Sergio Valeri.

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