IMN’s research activity focuses on the advancement of fundamental and applied research in various topics within the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The IMN has extensive experience in advanced techniques for the fabrication, characterisation and manipulation of nanostructures, such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), electron and ion beam lithography, or techniques based on near-field microscopy (NFM). This accumulated experience allows the IMN to address multidisciplinary research topics, as well as to offer technological support to different research groups in Spain and abroad.
Thus, the IMN carries out projects as apparently disparate as the development of nanobiosensors for discrimination of cancer cells, the manufacture of semiconductor nanostructures for use in devices for quantum information technologies and in advanced solar cells, magnetoplasmonic nanostructures for optically active devices or nanoengineering of thermoelectric devices to obtain electrical energy from waste heat more efficiently, development of thin film manufacturing processes for use in photovoltaic devices and for space instrumentation, development of techniques for molecular recognition…
The IMN is open to the scientific and technological community through its participation in Spanish and international research projects, currently including two European Research Council (ERC) projects, among others.
Research is structured through its three departments (Nanotechnologies for Health, Nanotechnologies for Energy and Nanotechnologies for ICT) and the micro and nanofabrication service (MiNa), which meets the most unique and demanding requirements, both for IMN’s own researchers and for the external scientific community, from other CSIC Institutes, Universities and Research Organisations, and public and private companies.
Address: Isaac Newton 8, PTM 28760 Tres Cantos ( Madrid)
Telephone: +34 91 806 07 00
Email: direccion.imn-cnm@csic.es
Contact person: María Luisa Dotor Castilla (Directora del IMN)