Thin film laboratory

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Thin film laboratory

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laboratories - Innovative materials for energy

Thin film laboratory

Our laboratory specializing in thin films is equipped with advanced tools to create thin films using physical vapor phase deposition (PVD) techniques. It also has facilities to make prototype electrochemical storage devices.

To deposit thin films with the PVD technique, we use a sputtering plant with a “bottom-up confocal” geometry. This allows us to deposit metals, oxides or composites. Our magnetron sputtering sources handle standard target sizes (from 2 inches in diameter and 3-6 mm thick), facilitating the deposition of different materials for combinatorial experiments.

We also have a hot filament evaporation system (Edwards model E306A).

At the University of Milan Bicocca, our laboratory includes two additional facilities to prepare devices for electrochemical storage:

A 4-glove chamber and a gas purification system to manipulate materials in a controlled environment for electrochemical storage.
A system for hot-sealing alkaline-ion batteries, useful for prototyping devices with a “Pouch” type configuration.