Institution: |
Fundacio Privada Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia |
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Acronym: | ICN |
Group: | Phononic and Photonics Nanostructures group |
Type of Institution: | Research Center |
Contact Person: | Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres (More info) |
Address: | Campus de la UAB, Edifici ICN2 - 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) |
Country: | Spain |
Phone: | 0034937372643 |
Fax: | 0034937372648 |
Website: | http://www.icn.cat |
Main research areas: |
Phonon-based devices Phonon-based nanometrology Phonons and Sound ("coherent phonons") phononic crystals phonon dispersion engineering phonon-related heat transport phononic crystals phonon dispersion engineering phonon-related heat transport |
Personal: |
Permanent Staff: 5 |
Post doctoral: 6 |
PhD: 6 |
Technicians: 0 |
Others: 1 |
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Participating Projects |
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MERGING - Membrane-based phonon engineering for energy harvesting - www.merging.eu Coordinator: Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres (ICN, Spain) Funding Source: 0 Total Funding: 2850000 € - Partner Funding: 655000€ - Nº of Partners: 6 Starting Year: 2013 - Duration: 3 years. |
Funding (average per year) |
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2013: 218000 € (MERGING) | |
2014: 218000 € (MERGING) | |
2015: 218000 € (MERGING) | |
Publications - general data |
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2012 |
No. ISI: 8
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2013 |
No. ISI: 11
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No. Others: 7
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2014 |
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No. Others: 8
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2015 |
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2016 |
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2017 |
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2018 |
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2019 |
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2020 |
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2021 |
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2022 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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H Factor 1: 35 |
H Factor 2: 37 |
H Factor 3: 37 |
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Infrastructures |
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Tool: Raman spectroscopy; Trade Name: ; Model: ; Installation Year: 0; Tool Specificities: |
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Tool: THz ASOPS; Trade Name: Gigaoptics; Model: ; Installation Year: 2011; Tool Specificities: |
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Tool: Brillouin scatering spectrocopy; Trade Name: ; Model: ; Installation Year: 2009; Tool Specificities: |
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Infrastructure: Nanofabrication facilities; Area: 0; Installation Year: 0; Main tools available: - Nanopatterning: custom stamps and moulds
- Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL): thermal- and UV-light-assisted
- Roll-to-roll NIL (R2R-NIL): meter-per-meter production of transparent, flexible nanostructures for devices
- Electron Beam Lithography (EBL): rapid prototyping, feature sizes down to 50 nm
- Focused Ion Beam: lithography and characterisation
- Block Copolymer self-assembly: template-assisted / graphoepitaxy
- Colloidal epitaxy: monolayer / multilayer self-assembly
- Electron Beam Evaporation (EBE)
- Microwave Plasma: surface activation
- Microwave Radiation: controlled/ultrafast annealing
- Reverse Gravure Coating: thin polymer coating on flexible and rigid substrates |
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Infrastructure: Electron Microscopy; Area: 0; Installation Year: 0; Main tools available: FEI Tecnai F20 S/TEM
FEI Magellan 400L SEM High Resolution SEM
FEI Quanta 650F Environmental SEM
FEI Inspect F50 SEM |
Research topics |
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Phonon-based components and circuits for ICT (incl. new device concepts) |
Thermal diodes and rectifiers |
Thermal transistors |
Thermal memories |
Thermal switches |
Phonon waveguides |
Computation with phonons |
NEMS |
Phonons and Heat (incoherent phonons) |
Thermal conduction in nanostructures, nanomaterials and interfaces (incl. Thermoelectrics and thermocrystals) |
Radiative heat transfer at the micro and nanoscales |
Thermal management at the nanoscale (incl. approaches to control heat transport in components, e.g., photonic devices) |
New techniques for the study of heat transfer and phonon dynamics |
Phonons and Sound (coherent phonons) |
Coherent acoustic phonons: generation (sources) and detection |
Optomechanics |
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) |
Phonon-based nanometrology |
Imaging with phonons, probing phonons in nanostructures |
Nanothermometry |
Phonon-based energy devices |
Nanoscale energy harvesting, storage and conversion |
Ultra-low power devices (incl. energy harvesting for ICTs and IoTs (Internet of Things) |
Thermal metamaterials |
Technology and nanofabrication for phononic structures |
Phononic crystals and quasi-crystals |
Waveguides |
Membranes |
Hybrid structures |
Acousto metamaterials |