IFN - Trento

Local Manager: Maurizio Ferrari IFN-CNR Unità di Trento Via alla Cascata, 56/C 38100 Povo, Trento, Italy tel. +39 0461 314250 fax +39 0461 314875 email: mferrari@science.unitn.it

The Trento Division (former CeFSA) is an internationally known center active in the development and characterization of materials for photonics, electronics and optoelectronics. Main research fields of the Division are: (1) synthesis and applications of nanostructured materials and surface modifications by supersonic beams of organic molecules, oligomers and clusters (2) Deposition and characterization dielectric materials for photonics and optoelectronics; (3) Development and characterization of planar waveguides and bulk glasses for all-optical devices; (4) Advanced superconducting devices; (5) Synchrotron radiation X-ray spectroscopies. Notable equipments of the Division are: a supersonic molecular-beam apparatus for materials codeposition and characterization (unique of its kind), systems for planar-waveguide preparation and characterization, a XEOL apparatus for the detection of X-ray excited fluorescence; devices for the analysis of traces of volatile elements, a characterization system of the back-action noise of SQUID amplifiers.

How to reach us
The IFN section of Trento is located in Povo, on the hills in the east of Trento. The main town can be easily reached by car (highway A22 Modena-Brennero), by train (railway station is located on the main Verona-Monaco rail axis). The nearest airport is in Verona, the Valerio Catullo airport. The centre is located inside a FBK building, in Povo, at Via Alla Cascata 56/C in Trento (Google map)

to reach the CNR_IFN sez. Trento you can use:

bus
You can reach the Faculty with bus number 5 (the most direct) and bus number 13.
Both bus lines depart from the bus station which is opposite the train station. It takes 15 minutes to reach Povo with bus line 5. You can find an updated timetable on the Trentino Trasporti web site http://www.ttspa.it/

car
If you want to go to Povo by car from Trento you have two alternatives:
1. drive through the city (see route from the motorway and from via Venezia in the map);
2. if you want to avoid the city centre read the following directions.
If you come from the motorway (Trento Centro or Trento Nord on the A22 motorway Modena-Brenner-Innsbruck-Munich), follow indications for Padova for about 7 Km. After having passed a tunnel turn left and then right in direction S. Donà. Go along a slightly downhill road until you reach a round-about. Go left crossing a bridge. Drive on for about 1 km until you reach another round-about then turn left in via Sommarive. After four hundred meters, you will reach another round-about and go straight on in Via Alla Cascata. After two hundred meters on the right you will arrive at the CNR-IFN sez. Trento.

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