Nanostructured organic systems
The smallest structures in conventional semiconductor technology are many times thinner than a human hair. Yet the smaller the structures, the more effort and money is involved in the production process costs. Various organic systems have the advantage of arranging themselves into nanostructures within the framework of their synthesis process. By controlling the growth of these systems, experts at the Institute are developing new electronic and optoelectronic components with definite merits, such as small structure size, low power consumption, high efficiency and low production costs.
Photophysics of nanostructured systems
The visual process, as well as the modern transportation of data via glass fibres, is based on photophysics, i.e. the transport and processing of light. Researchers at the Institute are working out the principles for the targeted manipulation and control of light, assisted by nanostructured systems. In this way photonic techniques for writing three-dimensional nanostructures can be used for increasing the efficiency of solar cells and for enabling loss-free transmission and processing of light information.