UFABC/Universidad de Antioquia collaboration: understanding defects, impurities and surfaces in wide band gap semiconductor oxide nanostructures

• Grant number: 11/14185-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: January 16, 2012
• End date: January 15, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Gustavo Martini Dalpian
• Grantee: Gustavo Martini Dalpian
• Visiting researcher: Jorge Mario Osorio Guillén
• Visiting researcher institution: Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 10/16202-3 - Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of nanostructures, AP.TEM

Abstract

The objective of this project is to develop a collaborative scientific interaction between researchers from Brazil and Colombia in the area of Materials, nanoscience and nanotechnology. The project will focus on the understanding of the structural, energetic and magnetic properties of intrinsic defects and impurities in wide band gap oxides, and also understanding the properties of nanostructures composed of these oxides. Some of the materials that we intent to study are ZnO and TiO2, due to its technological importance. (AU)