RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE (MFA) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Mission: # Interdisciplinary research on complex functional materials and nanometer-scale structures, exploration of physical, chemical and biological principles, their exploitation in integrated micro- and nanosystems, and in the development of characterization techniques. # Dissemination of the results in international programs, education and industrial R&D, with special attention to the needs of SME-s.