FemtoLAB & LIBS

Equipments

The research activities taking place at the FemtoLAB and LIBS laboratory are based on different experimental setups that exploit the properties of laser-matter interaction processes occurring with laser pulses in the fs and ns time scale regime. The preparation of thin films, nanostructured materials and the 2D and 3D micro- and nano-fabrication of solid materials is carried out by using, in turn, a vacuum chamber for PLD and a µ-FAB workstation for micro- and nano-machining. The laboratory is also equipped with an experimental setup suitable for performing Laser Ablation in Liquid (LAL) preparations of colloidal solutions of nanomaterials. Furthermore, at the laboratory a fast Detector / Camera system providing both shadowgraphs of the laser induced cavitation bubble and laser induced plasma dynamics plasma as well as detections of the Laser Induced Breakdown Spektroscopy (LIBS) emitted lines providing microdestructive quali- and quantitative analyses of solid materials without the use of any sample preparation. Moreover, the laboratory can offer the study of fluorescence radiative decay processes in organic and inorganic semiconductors, thin films and nanostructured materials through the employment of a time resolved fluorescence system based on the Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) technique.

Nanoparticles synthesis by Laser Ablation in Liqui LIBS@fs LIBS@ns TCSPC@TITO 2 Photon lithography fs-PLD (@800-400 nm)

Operating agreements

Since 2015: CNR-ISM and the Department of Science of the University of Basilicata have subscribed a Scientific Framework Agreement for carrying out, jointly, research activities concerning:

1) the development and application of methodologies based on laser techniques through the survey of the chemical-physical features of the processes induced;
2) the synthesis and characterization of -conjugates organic systems;
3) the development of materials for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications.

Collaborations

CNR Institutes

• IMAA (Potenza);
• Nanotec (Bari);
• ISASI (Napoli);
• IOM (Trieste);
• ISMN (Roma);
• IMM (Roma);
• SPIN (Napoli)

Italian Universities and Research Institutions

• Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Dip. Scienze, Scuola Ingegneria)
• Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (Dip. Chimica)
• Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" (Dip. Fisica, Chimica)
• Università di Roma "Roma Tre" (Dip. Scienze)
• Universtà degli Studi di Trieste (Dipartimento di Chimica e Scienze Farmaceutiche)
• Università degli Studi di Bari (Dip. Chimica)
• Università del Salento (Dip. Fisica)
• Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Dip. Fisica)
• Università degli Studi dell’Aquila (Dip. Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche)
• Università di Udine (Dip. Scienze Matematiche, Informatiche e Fisiche)
• ENEA (Frascati, Casaccia)
• ENEA (Trisaia, Rotondella)

Foreign Universities and Research Institutions

• BAM – Berlino
• Uppsala University, Dep. Physics, Uppsala – Svezia
• Duisburg-Essen Universitat, Duisburg/Essen - Germania
• IESL -FORTH- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser - Heraklion -Grecia
• University of Crete - Grecia
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences - IMEC TTK, Budapest - Ungheria
• The National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics – INFLPR Magurele (Bucarest) - Romania
• Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruder Boskovic Institute – Croazia
• Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Centre National de la Research Scientifique CNRS - Paris - Francia
• Sorbonne Université – Francia
• Laboratory of Quantum Optics, Università di Nova Gorica - Slovenia

Italian SMEs

• Ionvac Process Srl
• Mectra Srl
• Primo Cecilia Srl
• A.P.E. Research Srl
• Sintesi Srl
• DIGIMAT Srl
• COING SpA
• Wish Srls
• Ecopraxi Srl
• Meteo7 Srl

Italian industries

• Prysmian SpA
• CAEN SpA
• FCA SpA
• Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) SCpA
• Costruzioni Motori Diesel (CMD) SpA
• SCAI Lab Srl