RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

ISMN research facilities provide specialist expertise, equipment and infrastructures in processing, manufacturing and characterization of materials and devices to support its research activities. ISMN researchers and technicians use and share state-of-the-art laboratories, located at the four institute sites, for chemical preparation, processing and study of the morphological, structural, functional and physicochemical properties of nanostructured materials, thin films, biomaterials as well as for manufacturing and system integration of electronic, photonic, environmental catalysis and biological devices.

The strength of ISMN research facilities is complemented by the four laboratories for advanced characterization of materials and devices with nanometric resolution: the Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory (SPM: AFM, STM), the Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory (SEM-FEG), the High Resolution Surface Analysis Laboratory (XPS, AES, XRF, UPS) and the Time Resolved Confocal Photoluminescence Microscopy and Spectroscopy laboratory.

The facilities ISMN staff have access are:

MATERIALS AND DEVICES PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURING
Preparation and processing of nanostructured materials and devices
Deposition of metal and magnetic oxide thin films
Laboratory of micro and nanofabrication
Cell Colture

ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION METHODS OF MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Structural and chemical characterization
Facility for catalyst characterization and evaluation of catalytic activity 
Magnetic and magneto-optic characterization
Nanomedicine and drug delivery laboratory 
Advanced surface analysis laboratory 
Electron and optical microscopy
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
Electrical, optical and optoelectronic characterization
Laboratory for the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for energy, environment and cultural heritage

CLEAN ROOM FOR PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERTISE