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Laboratory 4 - Prototyping Laboratory.

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 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;
• 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

 

 

 

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 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.

 

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Institutional equipment / facilities;

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• Photolithography system

• Nanolithography system

• Encapsulation system (coating / development)

• FIB-SEM ion-focused beam scanning electron microscope

• Sensor testing system under controlled conditions

 

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Equipment specifications

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

 

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 - 

 

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Laboratory Team

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    Responsible of Laboratory

   

 

 

    Dr. Mihai-Robert Zamfir

    mihai.zamfir@inflpr.ro

 

 

 

 

 

    Dr. Anca Bonciu

    anca.bonciu@inflpr.ro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Dr. Mihai Sopronyi

    mihai.sopronyi@inflpr.ro

 

 

 

 

 

    Tech. Mihai Darlau

    mihai.darlau@inflpr.ro

 

 

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Research and development activity:

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• 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.

 

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