Observatorio de I+D+i UPM

Activities: • Photonics for space applications • Liquid crystal devices • High power laser diode design and simulation • Documental security • Molecular OLEDs Equipment: • Clean room with pilot production line for liquid crystals and OLED prototypes • Photolithography, E-gun and thermal evaporation • Laboratory for characterisation of displays and high speed laser diodes • Hartman-shack, spectrophotometer and OMA for characterisation of photonic devices

Activities: • Thin film deposition, characterization and optimization of: - Metals - Insulators - Semiconductors - Piezoelectric material (AlN, KLN) • Design, fabrication and characterization: - Bulk acoustic wave devices (SMR and FBAR) - Thin film surface acoustic wave devices - MEMS driven piezoelectrically using AlN - IR sensors based on amorphous Ge and SiGe bolometers fabricated using bulk micromachining techniques Equipment: • Sputtering, electron beam and thermal deposition • Reactive Ion Etching • Oxidation ovens • A system of fast annealing • Photo-CVD and LPCVD photonic devices • Foto-CVD y LPCVD dispositivos fotónicos

Activities: • Electroceramic materials: - Ferro-piezoelectric - Magnetoelectric - Advanced dielectrics - Composites Equipment: • Laboratory for electrical and magnetic characterization of materials (transverse and longitudinal Kerr effect, EIS) • Laboratory for multifunctional characterization of materials (ferro-pyro-piezoelectric and electro-mechanical properties) • Micro and nano structural characterization (AFM, SPD) • Metal Sputtering Deposition (Au, Al, Cr, Pt, Cu)