AIXTRON mod. AIX200 MOVPE system for III-V compounds
The 20-years research experience in the field of materials synthesis has been focussed on the MOVPE growth initially of wide band-gap II-VI...
UHV-MBE reactor mod. Riber Compact 21 CLS for graphene and graphene-like materials
The MBE reactor consists of a Riber Compact 21 system working under ultra high vacuum (UHV) specifically designed...
Sol-gel/solvothermal synthesis of colloidal oxide nanostructures in energy conversion/storage systems: copper oxide (CuO) nanocrystals as active components in nanofluids for enhancing the heat...
The theoretical-computational activity in Lecce is focused on four different reseach lines:
1) development of density-functional theory, 2) application of DFT methods to model nanosystems, 3...
In the last years the interest in the use of nanofluids in solar energy systems has grown very quickly. In particular the developments in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP...
The activity is focussed on the design and the fabrication of an innovative device to directly convert solar energy into electrical power based on optical rectified nano-rectenna.
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Intermediate Band Solar Cells (IBSC) are an innovative concept of photovoltaic system with a theoretically predicted increased efficiency with respect to the Schockley-...
1) Hetero- and nano-structures based on III-V (GaAs/AlGaAs) and II-VI (CdTe) semiconductors, such as nano-islands and dense vertical arrays of nanowires grown by self-assembly...
Design of novel plasmonic metamaterials based on different effects of plasmon coupling:
2D and 3D plasmonic materials Active plasmonic materials (Magneto Plasmonics) Hybrid plasmonic...
Development of high-speed NIR photodetectors based on AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures containing two dimensional (2D) charges
Metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetectors based on AlGaAs/GaAs...