News Archive

    Date: 19.12.2025

We are pleased to share our latest publication in Advanced Materials, "Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics" https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202512456

This is a comprehensive review on wide- and ultra-wide-bandgap semiconducting oxide nanostructures and their growing relevance for next-generation photonics. Beyond consolidating recent advances, this work puts forward a strategic perspective: the future of semiconductor technologies will not rely on a single material platform, but on the intelligent integration of emerging materials that enable new functionalities at the photonics–quantum interface. Building on recent work from our group, and the broader community, the article explores how wide-bandgap oxides offer unique opportunities through defect engineering, nanostructuring, and light–matter coupling, positioning them as promising platforms for quantum photonics, single-photon sources, quantum sensing, and hybrid quantum–classical systems.

Date: 03.11.2025

Bianchi, Bea, Onur and Paula met with old fellow Jaime Dolado in ESRF - ID16 to perform several experiments including XEOL, XRF, XANES spectra and their mappings.  

ESRF is European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and one of the most powerful X-ray sources in the world. Members of FINE group visited to the facility for the third time working on various projects that contributed to several articles from ESRF.

And new results are coming with new research articles!!!

    Date: 31.10.2025

We are delighted to announce that our group member, Paula has been awarded a highly competitive Contrato Predoctoral de Personal Investigador en Formación (PIPF) this year!

The PIPF is Spain's formal employment contract for PhD students, designed to fund a researcher's training and thesis completion for a maximum of four years. Crucially, this contract provides Paula with a salary and full social security benefits (including health insurance and unemployment), establishing her as a salaried trainee researcher rather than just a grant recipient.

This outstanding achievement secures her position and funding with us for the next four years. We offer our warmest congratulations to Paula on this well-deserved success and look forward to supporting her continued career trajectory and thesis work!