Molecular/hybrid Micro-Nanotechnologies for Photonic and Bio Applications

by Prof. Giuseppe Gigli (National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento)

Tuesday 6 Oct 2009, 16:00 → 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Careri (ex Aula Seminari) (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

Despite the growing interest in molecular and hybrid organic/inorganic materials, related to their excellent properties in terms of colour tuning, flexibility and low cost of fabrication, the persisting limit for their full exploitation in advanced devices stands in the lack of well established lithographic and device fabrication techniques suitable for this class of materials. Conventional lithographic technologies, such as photolithography and electron beam lithography, are not in fact compatible with soft and soluble molecular materials and standard deposition techniques are not suitable for novel hybrid nanocomposites. This prevents the possibility to realize complex devices and nanostructures able to increase device performances. Thus, a step forward for organic/hybrid opto-electronics necessarily passes through the development of a suitable technology for high resolution patterning and material deposition. In this talk recent results obtained in the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM for the fabrication of organic and hybrid devices for photonic and bio applications will be presented.