The ability to design and fabricate advanced nanostructured materials is crucial for the development of emerging technologies in areas such as energy, optoelectronics, microelectronics, and sensing. Among the physical fabrication approaches, laser-based methodologies, particularly Pulsed laser Deposition (PLD), offer unique advantages in terms of flexibility, precision and material versatility, enabling the synthesis of a wide range of materials, from metals and oxides to structurally complex systems.

In this talk, I will present highlights of my research activities, focusing on the fabrication of nanostructured materials using PLD, and on the study of the optical properties of novel semiconducting systems based on ZnO, g-C₃N₄ etc. targeting to sensing applications.