Coordinator - Daniele M. Trucchi

Prototyping technologies are devoted to the top-down tailoring of materials for the development of advanced electronic, magnetic, sensing, photonic, optoelectronic micro-nano prototypes deriving from the application of new physical mechanisms. The Microtechnology tools include all the techniques available at ISM operating at the micro and nanoscale for the development of such kind of innovative prototypes.
Prototyping extends the application range also to the development of advanced hardware and instrumentation, especially designed and fabricated with precision mechanical and electronic tools. Hardware & Vacuum Technology include all the tools relevant for the development of innovative instrumentation.

Coordinator - Antonio Santagata

The SYNTHESIS unit offers a wide range of expertises, services and instrumental techniques allowing either the design or the preparation of new organic and metalorganic molecules, the development of innovative multifunctional compounds, both in the form of micro- and nano-structures as well as of the bulk type, and the realization in an UHV environment of inorganic or hybrid interfaces.
The unit employs physical and chemical processes of synthesis, deposition, growth and treatment of materials. The combination of the synthesis’ skills together with those available at the TEMPISM platform provide the full realization of new systems having specific features and functionality suitable for several specific applications, as well as providing state-of-the-art results in the scientific-technological sectors in which the Institute is actively involved (e.g. Energy-Environment, Health-Bio, Automotive-Aerospace, Cultural Heritage, Blue-Sky Research and ICT).

Coordinator - Andrea Marini

These four areas well represent the numerous theoretical / computational activities of the Theory and Simulation laboratory. These activities cover a wide spectrum of dynamics simulations and characterization of various types of phenomena and materials. The various expertises of the laboratory components range from the use of advanced theories to the development of advanced numerical simulation codes. This variety allows the laboratory to study and predict the equilibrium and / or excited state properties of a system both in a steady-state and out of equilibrium state.
The laboratory's activities are thus on the border of the most advanced applications and theories as demonstrated by both the existing collaborations and the numerous publications.
The laboratory is also in constant contact with external collaborators and experimental groups, to which it offers calculation and simulation services, also with the support of European user infrastructures. Among these services, the Yambo project, which is today a scientific code known worldwide, entirely developed by the institute, with a decennial history of schools and development, should be mentioned.