Novel nanomaterials and new nanotechnology applications are cornerstones of innovative high value-added products in several industrial fields.  From a technological point a view, there is a strong demand for techniques to fabricate and measure the properties of these nanomaterials and related devices. In parallel, at a more fundamental level, a higher comprehension of the materials physical properties at the nanoscale level is needed.

Properties of these novel materials depend on a myriad of parameters. As an example optical properties will depend on such as feature size, shape, surface characteristics, interaction with the surrounding environment, etc.  Characterization of nanomaterials employs expensive high-tech equipment combined with multidisciplinary teams of experts that cannot usually be accommodated in a Small to Medium-sized Enterprise budget.

This talk will address the advantages for the industry, mainly SMEs to partnership with established academic laboratories in order to have access to top research capabilities with state-of-the-art instrumentation and multidisciplinary specialists to help developing or improving their products, so that an essential value added step is incorporated, at affordable costs.

Representative material characterization techniques will be presented alongside with several successful examples of collaborations between our research group and several companies.

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1. Growth of non-polar (10.0) ZnO thin films on MgO (100) using rf-magnetron sputtering
2. Photoluminescence studies of ZnO nanocolumns and nanocones grown by PLD on various substrates
3. Influence of thermal annealing on the morphological, structural and optical properties of GaN/AlN quantum dots
4. Determination by Raman scattering of free charge-carrier concentration in p- type CdTe
5. Optical, EPR and RBS studies in Tm implanted ZnO samples
6. Micro-Raman study of laser damage in CdTe surfaces