Iñigo Martín-Fernández

Dr. Iñigo Martin-Fernandez is a Ramon y Cajal researcher with R3 certification working at the IMB-CNM,CSIC. He is expert in micro and nanotechnologies that he has mainly applied to the science and technology of carbon nanomaterials and to applications in fields including nanoelectronics, sensing and microenergy.

He earned his PhD on Electronic Engineering in 2010 after the research on the growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their integration into transistors and electrodes at the IMB-CNM. In his postdoctoral stay at Berkeley Lab (USA) (2011-2012) he transitioned to graphene to pioneer an approach for the direct growth of graphene nanoribbons with controlled morphology and position. In his postdoc at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (2013-2016), he validated new insights and tecnological solutions for graphene to be used as a transparent and bendable electrode and for a lab-to-fab transistion. In 2017, he returned to the IMB-CNM with funding from the MSCA. He mastered the growth of graphene by CVD and, currently, he explores non-conventional CVD-based approaches to grow graphene with controlled structure and new integration methods towards various applications. He initiated a new research line to explore laser-induced graphene (LIG) and its integration with Si devices. He has also contributed to the research lines on thermoelectric harvesting and energy cells for H2 conversion into electricity.   

He has published and presented his work in journals such as Nano Letters, Nanoscale, Carbon, Small, Energy and Environmental Science and Advanced Functional Materials, and in conferences such as IEDM, MNE, MRS, Graphene Week, Graphene Conference, ECT and ICT. He is co-inventor of 3 granted patents. He has participated in contracts with national and international companies like Fuji Electric Malaysia. He has supervised 4 final degree projects and 1 final master’s project, and 1 doctoral thesis is ongoing.