| 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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| 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;
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Tool: THz ASOPS; Trade Name: Gigaoptics; Model: ; Installation Year: 2011;
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Tool: Brillouin scatering spectrocopy; Trade Name: ; Model: ; Installation Year: 2009;
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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 |
