FINE Group history
Research group: Physics of Electronic Nanomaterials / Física de Nanomateriales Electrónicos (FINE)
Our interest is focused on optoelectronic materials and devices based on semiconducting oxide nanomaterials, going from the study of their fundamental physics properties and advanced characterization up to the exploration of their implementation in advanced optoelectronics, photonics, sensors, energy and quantum devices. Currently, our main materials' platform is wide and ultra-wide bandgap oxides, which exhibit intriguing physical properties.
The FINE Group was founded by Javier Piqueras (Professor Emeritus) in 1986. Since then, the group has been growing with the incorporation of doctors trained in the group and from Attraction Talent programs. In its beginnings, its research work has been directed to the study of various families of semiconductors by techniques associated with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) as cathodoluminescence (CL) techniques, electron beam induced current (EBIC) and electroacoustic scanning microscopy, which have been implemented in our group. Later on, near field microscopy techniques (scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM)) and confocal optical microscopy were incorporated.