The Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) is equipped with advanced instrumentation dedicated to the manufacture and characterisation of nanoscale materials and surfaces, in order to study the relationship between the structure and functional properties of materials:

• Systems for the production of nanostructured materials, films and surfaces
• Electron and scanning probe microscopes
• Characterisation of structural, vibrational, electronic and optical properties
• Systems for studying radiation-matter interaction

Specifically, the following are available:

• Various systems for the manufacture of materials – Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) with ns pulses, PLD with fs pulses, HiPIMS magnetron sputtering, thermal evaporator
• Furnaces for heat treatment in a controlled atmosphere
• Electron microscopy systems – SEM Field Emission with EDX and STEM module
• Scanning microscopy systems – VT-STM/AFM apparatus in UHV, AFM/STM apparatus at ambient pressure
• Vibrational property characterisation systems: two Raman spectrometers for in-situ and ex-situ measurements, Brillouin spectrometer
• Apparatus for electrical/Hall measurements
• Integrated UHV system for ns PLD deposition and in situ characterisation using STM/AFM, equipped with evaporator and system for LEED/Auger