Group description
The Thin Films and Microelectronics Group of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) has an experience of decades researching on microelectronics and semiconductor devices. The group is actually composed of 2 full professors, 3 professors, 3 postdoctoral researchers and 3 PhD students. 4 theses have been defended in the last 10 years, and 20 undergraduate projects in the last 5 years. The group has published more than 40 high-impact papers and has patented 2 technologies in the last 5 years. Stable collaborations are maintained with national (Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, CIEMAT, etc.) and international research groups (Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, etc). The group receives funding every year from national competitive calls from the Ministry of Science and from the Comunidad de Madrid. The group is responsible or has access to the following equipment: ion implanter, optical lithography, high pressure sputtering, ion-beam evaporation, ECR-CVD, reactive ion etching, semi-automatic wire bonder, and many characterization equipments, like a complete optoelectronic characterization system in the visible and infrared range with temperature control down to 12 K or two probestations with impedance and current analyzers.