The main research activity of Thin Fims Laboratory is focused on the improvement of performance of nanoengineered thermoelectric and superconducting materials via introduction of artificial defects at the nanoscale. This research activity is conducted on thin film materials fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and metal-organic deposition (MOD) state-of-the art machines available in the laboratory. Another research activity is the fabrication and testing of thin-film based thermoelectric modules to be used as out-of-the-grid power sources for IoT devices, nodes and sensors. Dense pellets of functional materials, to be studied as bulks or used as targets for PLD, can be fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS) available as shared facility. The laboratory has an active network of collaborations with universities and research institutions overseas (Italy, Spain, USA, Colombia)