Italian Institute of Technology- Center for Nano Science and Technology (IIT-CNST)

Italian Institute of Technology - Center for Nano Science and Technology – Milan, Italy

IIT-CNST is a fully committed and is one node of the network established by IIT to foster synergy in national research. CNST has a focus on material science, and it is able to conduct the complete production line, from conceiving and realizing a new material to its application in devices (solar cells, transistors and circuits), through a comprehensive characterization. The Milan site will be led by Dr. Mario Caironi. He is the Principal Investigator of the Printed and Molecular Electronics research line.

CNST is equipped with instrumentation for optical and electrical characterization of materials, device fabrication, chemical synthesis, protein design and characterization. The equipment is located in a lab inclusive of Femtolab: laser micro-machining; Transient Absorption (TA) Spectroscopy; Solar cell characterization; Flexography; Wet lab; and Biochemistry lab. [https://www.iit.it/cnst-polimi]

Dr. Mario Caironi (Milan Site Lead)

Dr. Caironi is an expert in micro, opto, and thermo electronic device fabrication, organic semiconductor-based field-effect transistors and the integration of these devices in high-frequency circuitry and biomedical/implantable sensors and healthcare electronics. He is the author and co-author of more than 90 scientific papers in international journals and books.