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Semiconductor materials are the basis of an unprecedented technological development experienced by mankind since the second half of the 20th century. The development of these materials has allowed the production of multiple optoelectronic devices, transistors, LED, lasers, solar cells, etc. that has changed dramatically the way we interact with the world. In recent years, new advanced technological advances have made it possible to prepare and manipulate, under controlled conditions, materials on the nanoscale, which display fascinating novel properties, deriving from quantum confinement. That same progress has also allowed the production of hybrid materials exhibiting properties from both the organic and the inorganic worlds. Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors or semiconductor Quantum Dots (quantum confinement in 3D), or Quantum Rods or Wires (quantum confinement in 2D), offer a tremendous potential for the development of a new generation of optoelectronic devices with enhanced properties. In addition the possibilities of tailoring new functionalities and applications are multiplied when different families of materials are combined and new synergistic interactions are created. Our Research Division focuses its research on the development of advanced hybrid and nanostructured materials, such as halide perovskites and colloidal quantum dots, in order to take advantage of their properties in optoelectronic devices. In this respect special emphasis is placed on: synthesis of materials for use in the preparation of photovoltaic devices and LEDs, but also for light amplifiers and lasers; the study of new semiconductor materials or nanostructured configurations; the systematic structural, electrical and optical characterisation of material devices; the final modelling of the working principles of the device that identify the different physical processes responsible for its final performance, thereby unveiling the limiting processes so as to be able to focus efforts aimed at optimisation.