Project Description
The main objective of the project is thin films deposition of materials for sensors with high sensitivity and specificity, easy to use, low cost and portability in situ.
The different phases of the project concern studies on thin films deposition of magnetic materials with high field. These innovative materials find application in the field of magnetic electronic memories and for materials identification (without direct contact to protect from thermal and chemical contaminations) by RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification).
Further interest of the project is the study and the thin films deposition of organic antioxidants in biological systems.This activity is usefull for the detection of individual elements with low concentrations.These films allow to obtain the semi-quantitative analysis of different substances and can be used in agri-food industry.
The project activities contribute to a technological transfer of new technologies to technological districts, science parks, associations of small and medium-sized enterprises and others technical associations.
Head of Project:
CNR – IMIP, Istituto di Metodologie Inorganiche e dei Plasmi - Unità Organizzativa di Supporto di Potenza
Resp: dr. A.Morone
The Institute coordinates the scientific activitiesamong the differentpartners and take careespeciallyabout the studyand production ofinnovative materialofthin films bylaser ablation. The materialswhich are studiedand deposited(thin films) belong, some to the class ofmaterialswith characteristic magnetic properties, andothers to the classof materialswithantioxidant properties.
ThePartners:
CNR – IM, Istituto Motori - Napoli
Resp: dr. L.Allocca
The Institute contributes to develop a new laboratory apparatus to characterize magnetic thin film using Magneto-Optical measurements. These magneto-optical measures are very sensitive and can offer the possibility to measure magnetic thin films of few nanometers.
Resp: dr. M.Valentino
The institute contributes to the LDFS project using amagnetic characterization of the surface of thin films obtained by SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interface Device) high resolution measurements. Further characterizations were carried out using magnetic sensors GMR (Giant Magnetic Resistance). The intersection of data allow sa more complete characterization of the magnetic properties of thin film products.
InESS – Institut d’Electronique du Solide et des systèmes- Strasburgo (FRANCIA)
Resp: dr. F. Antonì
The Institute contributes to characterize thin films using micro-Raman, ellipsometry and Rutherford backscattering techniques. These measures allow to check the homogeneity of chemical/physical surface of the thin film, and this result, allows the choiceof the best deposition parameters, in order to obtaining a higher selectivity in the thin film products.
INFLPR - National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics - Bucarest (ROMANIA)
Resp: dr. M.Dinescu
The Institute contributes to LDFS project characterizing the surfaces of thin films by microscopy technique sand studing the growth processes of biological antioxidant thin films deposited by Matrix Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (MAPLE). The objective is to preserve their biological properties.