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Center for Nanotechnologies (CNT) an interdisciplinary group, involving a few RTD laboratories [...] On the next pages one may find information about the main equipments available in IMT. In some cases an equipment, or a group of equipments are located in a special room and they are managed by a certain RTD laboratory, part of the organizational structure. In such a case we are speaking about an “experimental laboratory”. The person in charge is usually a researcher, with his/her own research interest and motivation. However, apart from the usual cooperation between labs, the “experimental laboratories” should be accessible (directly or indirectly) to any researcher from IMT. Moreover, the “services” provided by these “experimental labs” should be also available outside IMT. A typical situation is that of experimental labs created by some research laboratories in the characterization area (class 100,000), which has a special support infrastructure for providing demanding operating conditions of delicate equipments. All looks like a “joint venture” of individual research laboratories in an special area provided by the institute.
Another important concept is that of an interdisciplinary group working as a “research centre”, due to interactions of two or more research labs. The MIMOMES Centre of Excellence financed by EU provides such an example: it is the result of combined activities of RF MEMS and Photonics laboratories, respectively. The second case corresponds to the so-called “Centre for nanotechnologies”, grouping other laboratories. This centre is functioning “under the aegis” of the Romanian Academy (this is a “purely scientific” interaction, without administrative or financial consequences). |
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Last update: December, 2009 |
