NSG Facilities

* Ion implanter (Danfysik 9010)
* Magnetron Sputtering (2 RF- and 1 DC-sources) 
* Thermal Evaporator
* Reactive Ion Etching (RIE)
* Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet
* NanoSphere Lithography (NSL)
* Tube furnaces for thermal annealing in controlled atmospheres & vacuum (Carbolite Gero)

* Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM ND-MDT Solver Pro)
* Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM Zeiss Sigma HD)
* Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (Woollam Co., WVase 32)
* X-ray Diffraction (XRD Panalytical X'Pert Pro, Anton Paar DHS900 hot stage)
* Rutherford Backscattering (RBS @ INFN-LNL)
* Spectrophotometer (Jasco V670, Integrating sphere, Heatable Specimen Holder)
* FTIR Spectometer (Jasco FT/IR-4000)
* Angle-resolved optical spectroscopy (Ocean Optics)
* Time-resolved Photoluminescence (CW, ns- & ps-pulsed lasers)
* Nonlinear Optics (Z-scan) with Nd:YAG tunable ps laser source
* Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) setup

* Cluster 1: 10 Xeon 4-core (480 GB RAM)
* Cluster 2: 4 Opteron 16-core (128 GB RAM)
Simulations of the optical properties of metasurfaces with:
* Commercial Software (COMSOL Multiphysics)
* Open-source and In-house Software 

NSG Address

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy via Marzolo 8
I-35131 Padova, Italy

NSG Contacts

Email: giovanni.mattei@unipd.it 
Phone: +39 (049) 827 7045 

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