The LaNN laboratory is one of the most important nanofabrication centers in Italy, with infrastructures including a 180mq clean room with a wide range of manufacturing and process tools including a 100KeV JEOL JBX-6300FS Electron Beam Lithography system (EBL) for the production of high-resolution patterns, a FIB-SEM dual beam for nanofabrication and microanalysis and a soft-lithography platform. LaNN is also equipped with an optical laboratory with a wide range of characterization tools, such as a J.A. Woollam VASE spectroscopic ellipsometer for reflection and transmission analysis, an optical bench, AFM and SNOM microscopies for nanostructure investigation, such as surface topography, near-field, fluorescence and micro-Raman spectroscopy.

The main research fields at LaNN are:

• Structured light (optical vortex beams generation and control)
• Diffractive optical Elements for telecom applications
• Holography and security holograms
• Plasmonic biosensors and microfluidics
• Soft lithography replica techniques