Research Facilities
Photonicamp
At the Photonics Research Center in Unicamp, also known as the Photonicamp laboratories, iPhD is focused on researching fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. These centers allow developing and designing new photonic materials and devices to shape the propagation of light.
Fully dedicated to Photonics research, Photonicamp labs pursue the objective of gathering experiences and knowledge to solve major problems in society, specifically through the investigation of light properties and its solutions. Photonicamp is located in a new building in the city of Campinas, at Unicamp campus, with offices and laboratory spaces for researchers from physics electronics and electrical engineering groups of the University.
CCSNano
The Center for Semiconductor Components and Nanotechnology, CCSNano, is a multidisciplinary center, emphasized in nanoelectronics, microelectronics and nanophotonics. It offers a complete nanofabrication infrastructure with modern equipments, such as thin film measurement, network analyzer, ellipsometer and optical microscopes.
CCSNano was raised in 1981, to follow an interdisciplinary perspective, aiming to collaborate in the development of creativity and innovation, and achieving excellence in projects and research. The structure offers facilities in nano and microfabrication processes to graduate, undergraduate and technical level students for thesis, scientific initiation and internship activities. It also provides nano and microfabrication process services to other groups, both at Unicamp and outside the University.
Device Research Laboratory
The Device Research Laboratory (LPD) was founded in 1972 with the main objective of researching all the necessary lasers to develop the field of optical fiber communications in Brazil. The studies are focused on the interactions between light and matter at the micro and nano-scale. Mainly, the laboratory allows searching for nanoscale optical devices, such as lasers, cavities and waveguides, using optical and electron beam lithography techniques – the same process used in advanced microelectronics devices.
LPD has always had a profile that seeks to articulate basic and applied research. Nowadays, new areas of research involving integrated photonics, optomechanics, silicon photonics, optoelectronics and nanolasers, forming the large area called nanophotonic, have become the main themes in this laboratory research.
MacGraphe
MacGraphe is the first center in Brazil dedicated to the research of grapheno. This is a new material with fantastic properties, similar to graphite, and a promissor future in Photonics. Since 2012, MacGraphe has been a center to study new materials and nanotechnology from a perspective of applied engineering. The laboratory also is an entrepreneurship hub, with space for incubating companies.
In Photonics, along with iPhD research project, Macgraphe pursues:
– To integrate graphene into optical and plasmonic integrated waveguides;
– To develop 2D materials-based optical modulators and photodetectors for next generation optical communications systems;
– To model, simulate and characterize the electronic and photonic properties of graphene and other 2D materials