The team strives to create the foundations of a stable platform for cooperation between the academic sector and high-tech companies and innovation entities in the field of semiconductor research and development, including a comprehensive range of all necessary activities (the so-called "complete value chain"), i.e. technology, characterization and application of materials for the production of a new generation of chips, especially those using new materials.
The team of experts is also involved in the research and application of advanced and environmentally friendly technologies, materials and nanostructures suitable for the development of next-generation electronic, optical and photonic components and chips (including "beyond CMOS") – especially SiC semiconductors, oxides and nitrides with a wide band gap (e.g. GaN, Ga2O3), 2D materials (graphene, TMDs, MXenes), spintronic and nanophotonic materials. The department is also trying to enhance teaching in the field of semiconductor physics and to increase the overall attractiveness of this field.
The team has long been involved in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology with a focus on nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. Cooperation with experts from leading foreign and domestic academic institutions as well as with high-tech companies operating in this field (onsemi, Infineon, Thermo Fischer Scientific, Tescan, CRYTUR, MEOPTA, NenoVision).
The team achieves excellent and internationally respected results – with articles published in professional journals (Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Nanoletters, Phys. Rev. Letters) and valuable application outputs with high TRL (UHV SEM/SPM, SPM, electron beam lithography, effusion cells,.....). It benefits from the existence of the state-of-the-art CEITEC Nano research infrastructure and other top-equipped laboratories (e.g. at the Institute of Physical Engineering of FME).
Researchers offer their partners a comprehensive approach to the issue (so-called "complete value chain"), i.e. technology, characterization and application of materials for the production of next-generation chips. This all is possible thanks to the existence of the unique CEITEC Nano research infrastructure.
The future of R&D of this department lies in the research and application of advanced and environmentally friendly technologies, materials and nanostructures suitable for the development of electronic, optical and photonic components and chips of the next generation (including "beyond CMOS").