Laboratory for Epitaxial Nanostructures on Silicon and Spintronics

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Affiliated Institutions

• Polo di Como
• Politecnico di Milano
• Università Milano Bicocca

News

18 Jan	2010	New L-NESS website goes online
1 Nov	2009	The 8th ESPS-NIS will be held in Como, 14-18th June 2010
7 Apr	2008	Il Sole 24 ORE visit the L-NESS

L-NESS

The L-NESS occupies a unique position in the Italian research landscape because of the extraordinary concentration of research infrastructure:

• advanced deposition equipment for semiconductor and oxide hetero-epitaxy:
  • SiGe low-energy plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (LEPECVD)
  • SiGe and epi-oxide molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) with in-situ RHEED, XPS and STM
  • SiGe magnetron sputter epitaxy (MSE) with in-situ STM
  • III-V MBE with in-situ RHEED
  • deposition of epi-oxides and metals (PLD/MBE cluster tool with in-situ XPS/UPS, IPES, RHEED, LEED; magnetron sputtering cluster tool)
• advanced fabrication facility (e-beam lithography).
• advanced characterization equipment for thin films, with a special emphasis on the characterization of advanced heterostructures and defects in materials.
• advanced atomistic modelling know-how (ab initio and semi-empirical).

Due in part to the origins of the centre, the L-NESS workforce is very international, and English is commonly used as the working language. Active research links are maintained with research labs located

• in Europe
  • ETH (Zürich)
  • Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Stuttgart)
  • Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen)
  • Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Minatec (Grenoble)
  • Université Paul Cézanne (Marseille)
  • IMEC (Leuven)
  • Helsinki University of Technology
  • CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastián)
  • DTU Nanotech (Copenhagen)
  • COBRA Research Institute (Eindhoven)
• and elsewhere in the world
  • University of Sydney
  • National Institute of Materials Science (Tsukuba)
  • Anan National College of Technology

The multidisciplinary approach of the L-NESS is reflected in intense collaborations among researchers active in the growth of materials, their characterization, and their atomistic modeling. Finally, a strong emphasis is placed on developing strategic partnerships with the global high-tech industry.