Equipments for preparation of thin films and surface treatments through:

• Evaporation of multilayers with two electron guns
• Sputtering with magnetron cathode
• Cathodic arc
• Ablation with pulsed excimer and Nd:YAG lasers
• Laser induced forward transfer for the deposition of biomolecules microarrays
• Microwave plasma CVD
• Plasma polymerisation CVD
• Surface treatments with plasma
• Surface treatments, marking and micropatterning by laser
• Ablation by laser with image intensifier and analyser and spectrograph

  Equipments for materials characterisation through:

• Profilometry and surface roughness
• Nanoindentation and scratch test
• Wear tests
• FTIR Spectroscopy
• Thermal desorption spectroscopy
• Optical emission spectroscopy
• Fluorescence optical microscopy

  And at the general facilities of the University:

• Scanning and transmission electron microscopy
• Atomic force microscopy
• EDX and WDX electron microprobes
• X-ray and electron diffractometry
• X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
• Raman spectroscopy
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
• Scanning Auger spectroscopy
• Secondary ion mass spectrometry