Advanced Materials Growth and Process Facilities
- 120 m2 clean room class 1000
- Atomic layer deposition (ALD) with O3 line (4" wafers)
- Atomic layer deposition (ALD) with O3 line (8" wafers)
- Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) equipped with O source
- Metallorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD)
- Omicron Multiprobe Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth facility with UHV XPS/AFM/STM/LEIS/RHEED in-situ characterisation
- Thermal and e-beam evaporator
- Wet bench for wafers cleaning
- Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) system and furnace annealing systems
- Photo-lithography
- Electron-beam lithography
- Thermal and e-beam evaporator
- X-ray irradiation
Characterization Facilities
- Scanning probes in air or controlled atmosphere: AFM, STM, MFM/EFM, SCFM, KPFM, SThM, SNOM
- Scanning probes in UHV and at variable temperature (25-1200 K): AFM, STM, KPFM, BEEM
- X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflectivity (XRR)
- Total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) and reflectivity (XRR)
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
- Low-energy ion scattering spectroscopy (LEIS)
- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Electrical Characterisation (0.3-500K): I-V, C-V, G-V, C-t, DLTS, Laplace-DLTS, Noise, IPE, IETS, Hall effect
- ToF-SIMS (Access to STMicroelectronics system)
- Micro-Raman with excitation in the visible (488 nm, 633 nm)
- Micro-Raman with excitation in the UV (347 nm)
- Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy
- Spectroscopic ellipsometry
- Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) (middle- and far-IR)
- Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy (ESR) (0.3-600K): X-band and Q-band CW-ESR, FT-EPR, EDMR, ENDOR, Multi-frequency EDMR
- (119Sn, 57Fe) Conversion Electron Mössbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS)
- High Power Microwave Source 1-40 GHz
- 12T Superconducting Cryomagnet 270mK Cryostat
Computational Facilities
- 6 nodes of a 32 node cluster E4-InfiniNode (2 CPU AMD Opteron 250, 4 GB di RAM) located at the National supercomputer facility CASPUR




