Photophysics and Thin Films
Members of the Academic Staff
In our laboratory we study the light-matter interaction, the processes that originate and applications of this interaction, such as, for example, the growth of thin films by laser ablation.
As light sources, we basically use pulsed lasers of duration ns and we study matter in solid, liquid, gaseous and plasma states. We have developed optical, acoustic, mechanical, thermal and electrical techniques to study the interaction of these short pulses. The applications are varied, from analytical techniques, to nanostructuring surfaces or making chemical sensors.
We are a group of researchers with different abilities and we have several funded projects, where we have the possibility of obtaining scholarships to do thesis.
Although the doors of the laboratory are closed, come, knock that we open you and we will tell you about the different projects and perhaps some will interest you.
We are mostly experimental, but we collaborate with theoretical groups and in these times of pandemic we are increasingly giving more attention to modeling the phenomena of the interaction of light with matter.
¡¡¡¡Come we need you!!!! You will be the researchers of the future.
We have 4 optical tables, where Nd: YAG lasers with their harmonics (1064, 532, 355 and 266 nm), excimer lasers at 248 nm, a parametric oscillator (pulsed laser tunable from 200 to 2500nm) are located. We have vacuum chambers to make thin films by laser ablation and by sputtering and all the instrumentation to characterize the light pulses. We diagnose the light-matter interaction using various optical, acoustic, and electrical techniques, such as emission spectroscopy, with temporal resolution, photoacoustics and Langmuir probes, for example.
We have equipment to carry out theses of any level and postdoctoral stays, we just need hands.
Title: “Study of new physical processes in multilayer systems of Ferroelectric-Ferromagnetic materials on a micro and -nano scale”.
CONACyT CB-A1-S-22695 project. (2019-2022). Responsible: Dra. Rosalba Castañeda GuzmánTitle: “Effects of morphotropic phases present in lead-free electroceramics”.
PAPIIT IN104121. (2021-2024). Responsible: Dra. Rosalba Castañeda GuzmánTitle: Laser and photothermal spectroscopy applied to the study of physicochemical properties of biological systems.
PAPIIT. Responsible: Dr. Villagrán Muniz Mayo Co-internal manager: García Segundo CrescencioTitle: Manufacture of bimetallic nanoparticles on rigid and flexible substrates by laser irradiation of thin multilayers
PAPIIT IN103621, (2021-2023). Responsible: Dra. Sánchez Aké CitlaliTitle: Magnetoimpedance in ultra-soft ferromagnetic for the design of biosensors.
PAPIIT IN. Responsible: Montiel Sánchez María Herlinda.Title: Nano-structuring of surfaces by irradiation with laser pulses of ns.
CONACyT CB-A1-S-23112, (2020-2022), Responsible: Dra. Sánchez Aké CitlaliTitle: Development of a variable memristor with Thin Films.
PAPIIT IT103020, at the Engineering Institute, UNAM, Responsible Dr. Pablo Roberto Pérez Alcázar. Internal Participant: Dra. Rosalba Castañeda Guzmán- Title: Synthesis of nanoparticles by laser ablation for biomedical applications, CONACyT Chairs project. Responsible Dra. Beatriz de la Mora Mojica
- Title: Validation and implementation of a diagnostic test for essential arterial hypertension (in collaboration with the National Polytechnic Institute, SECTEI project). Responsible Dra. Beatriz de la Mora Mojica
In short:
Mayo: Laser spectroscopy
Citlali: Nanostructured materials.
Rosalba: Synthesis and Characterization of thin films, Thin films of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials
Herlinda: Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, Development of magnetic sensors
Bety: Laser ablation for the synthesis of nanoparticles of biomedical interest
Alejandro: Synthesis of thin films by Sputtering
