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The Micro and Nanotechnologies Department (CRF-MN) is a Centro Ricerche FIAT facility active in future and emerging technologies for automotive and non-automotive applications since early nineties with a permanent staff of 50 researchers. The automotive industry is one of the largest demanding users of materials and technologies and Micro and NanoManufacturing technologies (MNMT) will have the greatest impact on components improving safety, on-board well being, environment compatibility and fuel saving.

The CRF-MN has a long experience in the design and production of prototypes of optics for standard and LEDs based lighting systems, organic and inorganic thin displays, chemical, electrochemical and catalytic sensors and energy sources (PV, batteries, microFC and thermoelectric materials). The devices are produced by different technologies:

1. thick and thin film deposition techniques (screen printing, PVD, sol-gel, self assembly);
2. patterning methods (microlithography, photopolymers, stencilling, imprinting, injection moulding);
3. electro-optical and morphological characterization (AFM with conductive and STM modes, FIB/SEM, spectrophotometry and radiometry).