Functional Optoelectronic Nanomaterials

We take advances in nanoscience and we transform them into nanotechnology for solving real-world problems that current technology cannot address or do so at an affordable cost for the benefit of the society. We follow a bottom-up approach engineering the properties of the materials from the atomic level, to the suprananocrystalline level and all the way up to device engineering. We are doing so by assembling a group of physicists, chemists and engineers to tackle interdisciplinary problems. Our focus lies on novel functional nanomaterials, nanostructures and devices for photodetection, light emission and renewable energies.

• ERC CoG 2016 – HEINSOL
• Graphene Flagship – WP Optoelectronics (Core 1,2,3)
• Plan Nacional – Mineco

Full-fledged Wet Chemistry Lab for material synthesis:

• 4 fumehoods with 5 Schlenk lines
• 1 glovebox with integrated spincoater
• 1 dry box

Post-processing/Device Fab Lab:

• 2 fumehoods with spincoaters
• 1 glovebox with integrated spincoater
• 1 Thermal evaporator
• 1 Atomic Layer Deposition System
• 2 Rapid thermal Annealing systems (RTP)

Optoelectronic Device Characterization Lab:

• Solar cell Characterization Suite: Class 3A solar simulator, TPV/TPC technique, EQE measurement
• Light Emission characterization: compact probe-station for L-I-V characterization, high-resolution spectrometer (600 – 1700 nm)
• ASE/Lasing characterization setup (inc. various pump laser sources (fs, ps, ns)
• Photodetector characterization Suite: 1 ambient probe station, 1 vacuum probestation (80K-350K), 2 semiconductor parameter analyzers with fA resolution, 1 supercontinuum laser source, 1 quantum cascade laser source, MWIR/LWIR monochromator for EQE measurements, 1 Step-scan FTIR system, several diode-laser sources, oscilloscope etc.