Controlling the motion of magnetic domain walls (DWs) in ultrathin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) has opened perspectives for mass-storage applications such as “racetrack...
At IMM-CNR Catania we use the plasmonic properties of noble metal nanoparticles (Au or Pt) to improve the photo-electro catalytic activity of n-type 3C-SiC/p-type Si heterojunction solar cells, to...
The theoretical-computational activity in Lecce is focused on four different reseach lines:
1) development of density-functional theory, 2) application of DFT methods to model nanosystems, 3...
The theoretical-computational activity at Catania HQ aims at bridging the gap between the atomic and quantum phenomena that rule interactions and processes at the nanoscale with the macroscopic...
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is a key component of clean fuel and chemical synthesis from solar energy. One of the approaches to produce Hydrogen at low cost is to couple together...
The research aims to the development of MEMS using thin piezoelectric film deposited by sputtering process. In particular, the optimization of the deposition parameters, in order to obtain highly...
Owing to its superior electrical properties, such as a wide band gap (3.2 eV) and a high critical electric field (3MV/cm), Silicon Carbide (4H-SiC) is now considered the...
Gallium Nitride (GaN) and its related AlxGa1-xN ternary alloys have excellent properties (like a wide band gap, a high critical electric field and a high electron saturation...
The unique method of 57Fe emission Mössbauer spectroscopy (eMS), as performed at the large-scale facility of ISOLDE at CERN, was employed to reveal, at the most atomic-scale,...
Monitoring of UV radiation and of its components UV-A and UV-B is of great interest for human healthcare. In past years we realised visible blinde 4H-SiC UV detectors based on...