NCL – Nano-Characterization Lab

The Nano-Characterization Lab facility offers state-of-the-art services for the characterization of nanomaterials and nanostructures developed at ICFO, within the various groups as well as in the nanofabrication facility (NFL). NCL’s unique equipment facilities provides multiple characterization techniques for imaging optoelectronic materials, nanophotonic structures and devices thereof on multiple length-scales using photons, electrons, mechanical forces as well as x-rays as probes.

Facility

Images

Electron Microscopy

X-ray diffraction Facility

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Scanning Probe Microscopy

Institutional Contacts / Head of Facilities

PL

Pablo Loza-Alvarez

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)

Provisional Contacts

Main Contact(s) of Facility

Staff

Head of facilities

CERCA Institutes

Castelldefels, Spain

2022

Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO)

Owners

Centres CERCA List

Address

Link

https://www.icfo.eu/research/facilities/ncl/

Equipments & Services Offered

Services

Available techniques Electron Microscopy: The facility offers a state-of-art electron microscopy suite with currently 2 SEMs one offering Ultra-high resolution at high and low beam energies for surface sensitive samples. X-ray diffraction Facility: NCL also has An X-ray diffraction facility for powder and thin film measurements, featuring also X-ray reflection for thin film measurements. Spectroscopic Ellipsometry: NCL’s spectroscopic ellipsometry covering a very broad spectral range from 300 nm – 20 μm, provides unprecedented information on the optical properties of materials and photonic structures at such a broad range. Scanning Probe Microscopy: NCL provides several state-of-art scanning probe microscopy systems offering several techniques including AFM, (photo-)conductive AFM, Kelvin-probe AFM, scanning-CAP AFM etc.

Categorització

RIS3CAT domains & other

Domains

RIS3CAT Domains

CERCA GINYS Categories

CERCAGINYS code

GINYS-ICFO-005

Access procedure & Fares

Access procedure

Open. In order to request access, detailed information on the available equipments and fees, please contact: gerasimos.konstantatos@icfo.eu; johann.osmond@icfo.eu

Availability

Official fares & Access

https://www.icfo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/NCL-fees.pdf

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