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| Acronym: | LENS |
| Department: | European Lab for Non-Linear Spectroscopy |
| Group: | Soft Matter Physics |
| Type of Institution: | University |
| Contact Person: | Renato Torre (More info) |
| Address: | via Carrara 1 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Phone: | 390554572495 |
| Website: | http://www.lens.unifi.it/ |
| Main research areas: |
 Phonon-based devices
Phonons and Heat ("incoherent phonons")
Phonons and Sound ("coherent phonons") |
| Personal: |
| Permanent Staff: 2 |
Post doctoral: 2 |
PhD: 1 |
| Technicians: 0 |
Others: 0 |
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| Infrastructures |
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Tool: single mode cw laser; Trade Name: Coherent; Model: verdi; Installation Year: 2005;
Tool Specificities: CW laser intracavity double single mode 5 w |
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Tool: picosecond laser ; Trade Name: Nd-YAG EKSPLA PL2143; Model: PL2143; Installation Year: 2005;
Tool Specificities: amplified regenerated oscillator: the infrared pulses have a 1064 nm wavelength, a temporal length of 20 ps and repetition rate of 10Hz and pulse energy of 5 mJ. |
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Tool: digital oscilloscope; Trade Name: tektronix; Model: ; Installation Year: 2004;
Tool Specificities: digital oscilloscope with a 7GHz bandwidth and a 20 Gs/s sampling rate |
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Tool: Femtosecond Laser; Trade Name: FEMTOLASER; Model: FUSION; Installation Year: 2008;
Tool Specificities: ULTRAFAST LASER SOURCE, 25 femtosecond, 250 mW |
| Research topics |
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| Phonons and Heat (incoherent phonons) |
| Thermal conduction in nanostructures, nanomaterials and interfaces (incl. Thermoelectrics and thermocrystals) |
| New techniques for the study of heat transfer and phonon dynamics |
| Phonons and Sound (coherent phonons) |
| Coherent acoustic phonons: generation (sources) and detection |
| Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) |
