Nanotechnology Research Laboratories

The NEAT Research Lab Group advances the sustainable design of next-generation nano-enabled antimicrobial materials and engineered nanomaterials at the nexus of environment and public health, including nanoparticle synthesis, characterization, and antimicrobial efficacy.

The Group of UltraFast Optical Spectroscopy studies the dynamics and nonlinear optical properties of quantum-confined systems after interaction with ultra-short pulses.

The Schacher Group is interested in the self-assembly and application of polymeric materials from 1 nm to several micrometers, including functional polymers and block copolymers.

The Microstructure Technology group advances fabrication methods for optical nanostructures and operates joint cleanroom facilities with IPHT and IOF.

The Nano & Quantum Optics group works on generation, propagation, manipulation and detection of quantum light in nanostructured systems.

The Surface Physics group studies organic molecules in thin films with semiconducting properties, focusing on preparation and characterization of highly ordered epitaxial layers.

This joint effort gathers a number of leading German research institutions from the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Society, and the Fraunhofer Society together with partners from Germany's Photonics industry. The PhoNa consortium conducts research on a broad spectrum of linear and nonlinear Photonic Nanomaterials, as e.g. metamaterials, photonic crystals, plasmonics, diffractive structures, and their application in fields such as biology, chemistry and material sciences.

The group synthesizes, modifies and characterizes functional nanoscale materials with emphasis on optical and electronic properties, nanowires, metasurfaces and photovoltaics.

The Strong Field Nanophotonics group focuses on ultrafast nonlinear optics, spectroscopy, nonlinear nanophotonics and high-order harmonic generation in nanoscale solids.

Applied Physical Chemistry & Molecular Nanotechnology group studying molecular nanotechnology and nanoscale materials at the Institute of Physical Chemistry.

The Leonard Lab synthesizes and develops new nanomaterials for use as electrocatalysts. These nanomaterials have unique properties not found in conventional materials, and are able to increase the rates and selectivities of electrochemical reactions. This results in catalysts that are more effective for converting water, CO2, and renewable energy into value-added fuels and chemicals.

One of CINSaT's main characteristics is the broad interdisciplinary scope, participating disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry, biology and philosophy to mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering, including the Institute of Nanostructure Technology and Analytics (INA). Research of the center is accompanied by an interdisciplinary diploma course of studies Nanostructure and Molecular Science.

Within the Institute, a modern cleanroom up to class 1 exists, enabling the application of various modern nanostructure technologies, for example molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), ion beam deposition (IBD). Different other deposition technologies and etching processes in combination with optical and electron beam lithogrophy provide a key feature for the development of optoelectronic devices and nanosystem applications.

Nanostructure production and investigation of their fundamental properties and impact on the fields of electronics, mechanics, optics, fluidics, and sensor technology.

This Centre of Excellence for Basic Research in Nanoscale Physics and Applications is a multi-disciplinary research division at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia. Seven groups of the Institute are studying the hottest topics of atomic/ molecular physics and atmospheric/stellar spectroscopy and developing new optical methods/devices for industrial, environmental and medical applications.

Nanomaterials; particularly electronic, ionic, and optical.

The SOMS Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre where chemists, physicists, biologists and engineers seek to understand the science of molecular self-assembly and self-organisation, to engineer new functional exploitable materials and devices.

This interdisciplinary group is researching the formation, structure, dynamics and interactions of matter at the molecular and nanoscale.

For many years, the group's research theme has been the resonant interaction of electromagnetic waves, or photons, with condensed matter, consisting in most cases of organic molecules. Photons can be simply absorbed by matter, they can flip spins in a magnetic field in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), or excite the electron cloud in optical absorption experiments. However, many of the effects they look at are more complex, nonlinear. They study, for example, the effect of two frequencies on spin echoes in EPR, the emission of light at wavelengths different from that of the excitation laser (fluorescence), and the effect of spin resonance on this emission (optically detected magnetic resonance, ODMR), or phenomena involving two or more photons, such as spectral hole-burning.

Research on the investigation of novel photonic and electronic semiconductor materials and phenomena and the development of devices for key areas such as internet communication, data storage, displays, illumination, environmental monitoring and life sciences.

The group research Interests are in Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanowires with emphasis on Synthesis, Assembly and Device Applications in Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Applications. The group also studies nucleation and growth in both hard (metal, semiconductor) and soft (pharmaceutical) nanocrystal materials with emphasis on size, shape and crystal phase control.

Accelerating materials discovery through collocation of industry and academia, and the use of robotics and high-performing computing.

The current research themes of the SSRC cut across the disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science, and combine the efforts of both experimentalists and theoreticians. The overarching ambition of this work is to achieve nanoscale control, design and assembly of function.

More than 40 research scientists and engineers from diverse disciplines have come together in a new 106,000 square foot research facility on the University of Louisville's main campus. Engineers with specialties in MEMS, bioMEMS, nanotechnology, electrooptics, biomechanics, bioengineering, microfabrication, and theoretical and applied physics, work along side scientists from the College of Arts and Sciences with expertise in molecular, cellular and structural biology and medicinal and combinatorial chemistry, and with cancer and genetic researchers from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.

Research group developing solution-processed and printable 2D-material inks and applying Raman spectroscopy to graphene and other carbon nanomaterials for electronic, sensing and biomedical applications.