Physics of Electronic Nanomaterials – FINE group
Scientic Supervisor / Contact Person
Name and Surname
Bianchi Mendez
ORCID (link)
Localization & Research Area
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Physical Science
Department
Physics of Materials
Research Area
Physics (PHY)
MSCA & ERC experience
Research group / research team hosted any MSCA fellow?
No
Research group / research team have any ERC beneficiaries?
No
Research Team & Research Topic
Research Team / Research Group Name (if any)
Physics of Electronic Nanomaterials / Semiconductor nanostructures
Website of the Research team / Research Group / Department
Brief description of the Research Team / Research Group / Department
The Physics of Electronic Materials Group (FINE Group) is a consolidated research team composed by 8 researchers as staff members, 4 postdoctoral researchers and 5 PhD students, which has been working steadily on the study of optical and electronic properties of semiconductors nanostructures since more than 25 years.
We have been involved in several international projects, such as a Marie Curie Training Site and TPVCell European Training Network (ETN); Bilateral actions with Germany, Portugal, Italy and France, and a H2020 European project, devoted to batteries and an AFOSR project on gallium oxide nanostructures. In addition, national funding on a regular basis is also granted.
The FINE Group manages its own facilities at the UCM premises to carry out experimental research on an independent basis. The main equipment consists of five scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with advanced techniques as CL, EBSD, EDS to study structural and optical properties. An optical confocal-Raman microscope equipped with a brand-new tunable laser and a cryostat, and an AFM complete the battery of equipment for materials characterization. Its infrastructure enables a quite full material science research, quite complete and not usually available in a single research group.
We have been involved in several international projects, such as a Marie Curie Training Site and TPVCell European Training Network (ETN); Bilateral actions with Germany, Portugal, Italy and France, and a H2020 European project, devoted to batteries and an AFOSR project on gallium oxide nanostructures. In addition, national funding on a regular basis is also granted.
The FINE Group manages its own facilities at the UCM premises to carry out experimental research on an independent basis. The main equipment consists of five scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with advanced techniques as CL, EBSD, EDS to study structural and optical properties. An optical confocal-Raman microscope equipped with a brand-new tunable laser and a cryostat, and an AFM complete the battery of equipment for materials characterization. Its infrastructure enables a quite full material science research, quite complete and not usually available in a single research group.
Research lines / projects proposed
The scope of the activity research of FINE team is the study of optical and electronic properties at the nanoscale level arising in advanced semiconductor nanostructures, produced within the group, and based mainly on wide semiconductor oxides of high technological interest, as Ga2O3, NiO, MoO3, SnO2, GeO2 or TiO2. We exploit the advantages of free electrons beam injection to study of the optical and electronic local properties of the nanostructures with high spatial resolution with the aid of advanced modes in the SEM, as cathodoluminescence (CL) and EBIC. Some current projects to illustrate our research lines are:
- "Light-matter interaction in nano-membranes of wide bandgap metal oxides for self-powered devices" (2022-2025).
- "Development of a multifunctional optical sensor based on gallium oxide microcavities” (2024-2025). Proof of Concept project.
- "Gallium oxide nanostructures for energy saving and telecommunications" Project for ecologic and digital transformation (2022-2025).
- "p-n heterojunctions of emergent wide band gap oxides for self-powered UVC sensing". M.ERA.net project. (2023- 2026) Coordinated by UCM, Partners: Nanovation (France) and Technical University Dresden (Germany).
- “Exploring optical cavities based on gallium oxide nanomaterials”. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2023-2026).
-"Plan Complementario de Materiales Avanzados", MAD2D-CM-UCM-4: "Materiales disruptivos bidimensionales" (CM y PRTE) (2022-2025).
- "Light-matter interaction in nano-membranes of wide bandgap metal oxides for self-powered devices" (2022-2025).
- "Development of a multifunctional optical sensor based on gallium oxide microcavities” (2024-2025). Proof of Concept project.
- "Gallium oxide nanostructures for energy saving and telecommunications" Project for ecologic and digital transformation (2022-2025).
- "p-n heterojunctions of emergent wide band gap oxides for self-powered UVC sensing". M.ERA.net project. (2023- 2026) Coordinated by UCM, Partners: Nanovation (France) and Technical University Dresden (Germany).
- “Exploring optical cavities based on gallium oxide nanomaterials”. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2023-2026).
-"Plan Complementario de Materiales Avanzados", MAD2D-CM-UCM-4: "Materiales disruptivos bidimensionales" (CM y PRTE) (2022-2025).
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