With modern laboratories, a clean room, high-sensitivity equipment, and unique technologies, the Institute drives innovation in materials science, microsystems, and cultural heritage.
ISSP is equipped with a wide range of research infrastructure, advanced methodologies and technologies, including:
- equipment and know-how for the growth of oxide-material single crystals for laser technology and applications of the photorefractive effect, as well as equipment for the synthesis and investigation of high-temperature superconducting materials;
- state-of-the-art equipment and technologies for thin-film deposition used in the fabrication of microelectronic, optoelectronic and acoustoelectronic sensors, as well as for laser technologies, including cleanroom facilities;
- equipment and methodologies for electron microscopy studies, spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements, and spectrometry across the spectral range from vacuum ultraviolet to infrared;
- equipment for polarization measurements in mesomorphic systems and polymer liquid crystals for display and indicator technologies, as well as equipment for stroboscopic video microscopy and micromanipulation of lipid vesicles;
- various laser systems, including metal-vapour gas lasers and solid-state nanosecond and femtosecond lasers emitting in the UV, visible and near-infrared spectral ranges, used in plasma physics, laser-based analysis and materials processing, with potential applications in nanotechnology, medicine, archaeology, environmental studies and other fields;
- high-technology experimental equipment for studying the electrical, magnetic and thermal properties of materials, surfaces and structures.
