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Maria Rute de Amorim e Sá Ferreira André

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SOLID-STATE LIGHTING

Phosphors (Ln3+-doped organic-inorganic hybrids-OIH, MOFs) for LEDs with enhanced CRI (>90), tuned CCT (3000-6000 K), balanced red, green and blue components featuring novel applications in horticulture blue-photonics.

NANOSCALE & MOLECULAR SENSING

Markers/sensors (nanoparticles, films, fibers) for low detection levels and high selectivity (SERS and Raman imaging, photoluminescence).
Luminescent Ln3+-nanothermometers with sub-micron spatial resolution for sensing, and to probe local Ln environments (nanoscale heat transfer, water anomalous properties). 2D thermal bioimaging for highly spatially-modulated intracellular magnetic/optical hyperthermia.
Molecular logic gates based on Ln3+-bearing bistable molecules.

INTEGRATED OPTICS

Photonic integrated circuits based on OIH for next generation of optical networks. Out-fiber LED-based amplification components for visible light communications. Biosensing lab-on-a-chip based on low-refractive index contrast interferometers.

PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION

Flexible waveguide sustainable luminescent solar concentrators based on OIH and water suspensions of light-emitting phycobiliproteins from red algae.

INTERNET OF THINGS

Luminescent QR codes based on OIH for multiplexing storage, real-time sensing and thermal memory. Development of software applications for mobile devices to Web quick access.

FERROIC DEVICES

Transversal integration using electric-magnetic-structural coupling focused on oxides, ceramics, bio-organic, OIH and metallic films. Effect of structural transitions, doping effects, defect chemistry and ferroic domains. Thermoelectric and ferrocaloric devices, bio-related applications using high performance piezo- and ferroelectrics (self-assembly and supramolecular packing).

INTERCONNECTION AND PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES

Electrophoretic deposition of dielectric metal oxides for high-frequency application. Model and thin-film RF sputtering of all-oxide or metal/oxide heterostructures. Bias induced processes at interfaces, junctions. Scanning probe imaging and mapping of functional responses. Oxygen migration barriers at interlayers and lithographic device manufacture/integration.