The following activities are carried out in the Laboratory of Thin Films and Solar Cells:

• production and characterization of thin films for infrared detectors;

• production and characterization of thin films for solar cells;

• production and characterization of thin films for optical filters and absorbers;

• production and characcterization of graphene.

The following equipments are available:

• deposition systems:

  • homemade system for RF magnetron sputtering;

  • Balzers evaporation equipment;

  • Edwards evaporation equipment (flash, electron beam and resistive);

  • Two homemade close-spaced sublimation (CSS) systems;

  • Jeol evaporation equipment​​ (adapted for close-spaced sublimation);

• characterization systems:

  • UV-vis-NIR spectrophotometer for optical characterization (transmittance, reflectance, absorbance) double beam Cary 5000 – Varian;

  • Dektak 150 – Veeco profiler for thickness and roughness measurements;

  • QEX7 – PV system for quantum efficiency measurements (internal/external and apparent, with bias light and voltage); 

  • SCD1 – PV current-voltage measurement system; 

  • XE-7 – Park Systems atomic force microscope;

  • homemade temperature coefficient of resistance measurement system;

  • Bio-Rad HL5000 system for measuring electrical properties (resistivity, mobility, concentration of charge carriers and determination of charge carrier type using the Hall effect);

  • S30H Elma ultrasonic bath model;

  • GHA 12/300 Carbolite tube oven;

  • Two Quimis hoods. 

Area: 50 m².

Contacts: Prof. Leila Rosa de Oliveira Cruz  (Head of LFF) - leilacruz@ime.eb.br

 Prof. Carlos Luiz Ferreira - cferreira@ime.eb.br

 Cel Wagner Anacleto Pinheiro - anacleto@ime.eb.br