Methods

Technology Resource Center “Nanofabrication of Photoactive Materials (Nanophotonics)” objectives are fabrication and testing of functional nanocomposite materials and elements for:

• Optical and quantum supercomputers
• Nano-electronics and micromechanics
• Solar energy conversion and heterogeneous photocatalysis
• Photoactive nano-coatings and chemical sensors

Basic set of technological and express-analytic Resource Center equipment includes:

• Technological and express-analytical systems to fabricate 3D/2D nano-structured media
• Technological and express-analytical systems to fabricate 3D/2D, 1D, 0D structures by means of 3D/2D nano-fragmentation
• Test benches for laser spectroscopy characterization of optical and magneto-optical receptivity of photonic and photo-spintronic nanostructures
• Test bench for modeling of logic and memory elements for optic supercomputer
• Technological and express-analytical systems to develop and to fabricate nano-structured media for solar energy conversion and heterogeneous photocatalysis
• Technological and express-analytical systems to develop and to fabricate photoactive nano-coatings and chemical sensors

Basic technologies of Resource Center are:

• Molecular beam Epitaxy
• Technology of fabrication of nanocomposite materials by ion beam sputtering and plasma-induced dispersion
• Technology of molecular layer deposition
• Lateral fragmentation of quantum-well structures by focused ion beam
• Creation and characterization of DBR/TIR waveguides
• Nanolithography
• Nanoinprinting
• Technology of thermochemical and microwave synthesis of dispersed nanocomposite materials
• Sol-gel technologies of nanocomposite coating formation (dip-coating, spin-coating, spray-coating)
• Technology of (photo)electrochemical synthesis and modification of nanocomposite materials

Basic technologies in RC are aimed toward fabrication of nanocomposite 3D/2D,1D,0D hetero-structures of photoactive materials for information processing and light energy conversion systems.