RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

SIFA Research Group is part of a collaborative network of laboratories that share state-of-the-art infrastructure across three complementary research units: Laboratório de Corrosão e Nanotecnologia (LNCT), Optics Group, and Optical Dosimetry Group. Together, these groups leverage a broad array of equipment to advance materials characterization, optical instrumentation, and sensor development.

 

Our shared facilities include a full suite of spectroscopic and laser-based tools for optical characterization, such as UV-Vis, FT-IR, and Raman spectrometers; stabilized continuous-wave lasers at several wavelengths; a nanosecond pulsed laser at 1064 nm with second-and third-harmonic generation, plus an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) tunable from 410 nm to 2100 nm. In addition, an instrumentation laboratory supports the design, assembly, and testing of novel photonic and legacy sensors, while a high-resolution electron microscopy suite provides MEV imaging capabilities. A fully equipped chemistry laboratory enables sample preparation ranging from simple solute-solvent solutions to advanced Random Laser matrices synthesis. This integrated infrastructure fosters interdisciplinary research and accelerates innovation across materials science, photonics, and sensor technology.

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SIFA research group also has access to a high-performance computing (HPC) environment provided by LaMCAD (Laboratório Multiusuário de Computação de Alta Performance) at the Federal University of Goiás for quantum-chemical calculations (QCC) to predict both linear and nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules.