nanoGUNE, the Basque Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center
Our mission is to carry out world-class nanoscience research for the competitive growth of the Basque Country.
Nanoscience is science at a very small scale: the nanoscale, ranging from 0.1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter. The behavior of matter at the nanoscale is very special and scientists from very diverse disciplines are nowadays studing all these phenomena.
Our research is mainly focused on Quantum Nanoscience, Nanomaterials and Nanomedicine.
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State-of-the-art facilities
The nanoGUNE infrastructure is designed to fabricate nanoscale materials and characterize their properties on the nanometer scale and with sufficiently high sensitivity. Since the opening in 2009, new facilities have been fitted out and renewed progressively, including a 300 m2 cleanroom, electron microscopy laboratory, nanooptics laboratories, nanobio facilities, and advanced characterization and nanofabrication equipment.
CRYO Plasma FIB instrument, a new exciting tool, one of a few in Europe, reinforced the Basque Electron Microscopy infrastructure in 2024.
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Donostia, the spintronics and orbitronics capital
The Spin & Orbit conference, organized by CIC nanoGUNE, is bringing together the scientific community to discuss future electronics. Over 100 international experts in spintronics and orbitronics are… Read more
Review Article Highlights 25 Years of Modern Near-field Optical Nanoimaging
A newly published review article in Nature Reviews Materials highlights the groundbreaking impact of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), a technique that surpasses the diffraction limit to achieve nanoscale optical… Read more
