Laboratory 4 - Prototyping Laboratory.


 

 The Prototyping Laboratory is a facility which aims at developing new research directions in the field of eco-nano-technologies and advanced materials, but also in innovative devices on large surfaces, up to 200 mm, in the fields of electronics and optoelectronics, sensors, energy production and storage:

 

  • Surface processing and nanostructuring services with FiB / SEM equipment;
  • Development of FET type devices for measuring the opto-electrical characteristics of nanomaterials on surfaces up to 200 mm2;
  • Development of MEMS, Optical MEMS devices;L4P1
  • Development of sensor devices or sensor arrays on surfaces up to 200 mm2.

 

 

 

Connecting wire-based solar cells without any transparent conducting electrode Le To Toan et al CrystEngComm, 2016

 

 

 

 


 The activity of the prototyping laboratory falls within the directions 2 and 3 of the themes of the INFLPR strategy;

 

Dir. 2 -  Sensor platforms based on photonic and plasma methods
  • Optoacoustic systems for real-time gas detection,

  • Fiber-optic sensors for gas detection,

  • Methods of detection based on Raman scattering of relevant pharmaceutical compounds,

  • Surface acoustic wave sensors for the detection of volatile organic compounds and UV radiation,

  • Chemoresistive sensors based on thin films deposited by laser techniques.

 

Dir. 3 - Nanostructures and advanced materials obtained / characterized by laser, plasma and radiation methods for eco-nano-technologies
  • Advanced and highly nanostructured materials obtained by plasma and laser methods,

  • Photonic processing of new materials for eco-nano-technologies,

  • Special crystals and ceramics for laser sources and advanced radiation conversion processes.

 


Interconnectivity with existing laboratories L4

 


Institutional equipment / facilities;


 

  • Photolithography system

  • Nanolithography system

  • Encapsulation system (coating / development)

  • FIB-SEM ion-focused beam scanning electron microscope

  • Sensor testing system under controlled conditions

 


Equipment specifications


 

  • Complete IDONUS Photolithography System including mask alignment system and AMCOSS coating / development system

 

L4 Equip 1a

L4 Equip 1b

Mask alignment system

Coverage / development system

 

          responsible staff - Mihai Zamfir, Mihai Darlau (AMCOSS)

          users - MIhai Sopronyi

 

 

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Verios nanolithography system

 

          responsible staff - Mihai Zamfir, Mihai Darlau (AMCOSS)

          users - MIhai Sopronyi

 

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Scios Dual Beam FiB-SEM with Ga/Pt patterning capabilities

 

          responsible staff - Mihai Zamfir, Mihai Darlau (AMCOSS)

          users - Anca Bonciu, Isabela Bancu, Ioan Ghitiu

 

  • Sensor testing system under controlled conditions

 

          responsible staff - Mihai Zamfir

          users - 

 


Laboratory Team


 

L4MRZamfir    Responsible of Laboratory

   

 

 

    Dr. Mihai-Robert Zamfir

    mihai.zamfir@inflpr.ro

 

 

L4ABonciu

 

 

 

    Dr. Anca Bonciu

    anca.bonciu@inflpr.ro

 

 

L4MSopronyi

 

 

 

 

 

    Dr. Mihai Sopronyi

    mihai.sopronyi@inflpr.ro

 

 

Mihai Darlau

 

 

 

    Tech. Mihai Darlau

    mihai.darlau@inflpr.ro

 

 


Research and development activity:


 

  • Development of innovative energy storage and production systems and devices based on emerging and alternative technologies,

  • Fundamental research of two-dimensional (2D) materials with innovative physical and chemical properties and exploring the possibilities of integrating them into devices with different architectures for applications in various fields,

  • Development of complex optoelectronic heterostructures,

  • Development of “MEMS”, “Optical MEMS” type devices, etc.,

  • Development of functional devices for bionanophotonics: micro-nano-fluidics, sensors.