NFFA-Trieste

Nanoscience Foundries & Fine Analysis (NFFA) - Trieste is an open access infrastructure to perform experiments in nanoscience involving growth, characterization and advanced spectroscopies at synchrotron radiation and pulsed laser sources. NFFA-Trieste, operational for national and international users since 2015, is the first research facility offering direct integration between nanofoundries and analytical large scale facilities. The project, therefore, offers advanced off-line tools for sample growth (PLD, MBE, PVD) and for characterization (STM, XPS, MOKE, SEM, XRD) of nanosystems, in combination with spectroscopic techniques (ARPES, spin-ARPES, XPS, XMCD, XAS, ambient-pressure XAS, time-resolved PES, spin polarization polarimetry, FTIR analysis) at Elettra synchrotron radiation and FERMI free electron laser facilities. The Open Access is regulated by a proposal system and international peer-review, that considers specific projects that need integrated access to different techniques in the nanoscience research. There are no deadlines and proposals are continuously accepted and evaluated.