Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia (ISSP UL) participates in the RIANA project (2024–2028), providing access to world-class cleanroom facilities and nanomaterial fabrication equipment.
RIANA will engage with academic and industrial users through a rolling call system and promote experiments that combine different facilities and techniques. This combination of scientific tools will enable new approaches and an expansion of the user community, paving the way for accelerated innovation based on nanomaterials.
Coordinated by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), RIANA joins 7 European networks of top-level RIs to cover the most advanced techniques relevant to nanofabrication, processing/synthesis, characterization, and analysis as well as simulation capacity. Highly customized and efficient access to 69 infrastructures is coordinated via a single-entry point and enabled through comprehensive scientific and innovation services by senior scientists, facility experts, and highly trained junior scientists.
This project encompasses both curiosity-driven research in nanoscience with open research questions for long-term impact, and challenge-driven research in nanotechnology with targeted research questions for short- and mid-term impact.
ISSP UL participates participates in the project with its state-of-the-art cleanrooms – the Nanotechnology Center – and the nanomaterial fabrication equipment located there.
