The research group is dedicated to the investigation of electronic and vibrational properties of Quantum Materials.
The research group is dedicated to the investigation of electronic and vibrational properties of Quantum Materials including Weyl, Topological Insulators and Graphene. The SISSI infrared beamline has been built through a collaboration between INFM (CNR) and Elettra sincrotrone Trieste and Sapienza University of Rome.
The beamline is divided in two branches:
SISSI Mat
Is managed by CNR-IOM. The activities of this Branch is mainly dedicated to condensed matter and in particular
to Quantum Materials and photonics and plasmonic systems.
The beamline extracts terahertz and infrared radiation from 1 meV and 2.5 eV from a bending magnet and the end station is constituted by a Bruker Michelson interferometer coupled with a Hyperion 2000 microscope. This last provides the possibility to perform spectromicroscopy at the diffraction limit. In the last year through a collaboration between NFFA, Elettra and CNR we also mounted a new nanospectroscopy spectrometer based on an AFM system and ables to perform IR
and THz measurements well beyond the diffraction limit down to 20 nm of spatial resolution.
SISSI Bio
Is managed by Elettra Synchrothron, Trieste.
As indicated above, in the 2018 through a collaboration between NFFA, Elettra and Cnr we also mounted a new nanospectroscopy spectrometer based on an AFM system and ables to perform IR and THz measurements well beyond the diffraction limit down to 20 nm of spatial resolution. This system is still in development and will be open to external users in 2021.
The research group is dedicated to the investigation of electronic and vibrational properties of Quantum Materials including Weyl, Topological Insulators and Graphene.
The group also study the optical and low-energy properties of strongly correlated systems like for instance VO2, V2O3 and high-Tc superconductors. We are able to modulated their properties through electric field, temperature and high-pressure (GPa) by using Anvil Diamond cell.
Other activities concern the collective plasmonic response in 2D and 3D materials and their
tunability vs. chemical doping, electric field and pressure.
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