Chairs of excellence

DiSABloC

Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers: Towards Smart Functional Surfaces for Nanoelectronics & Energy

Paul F. Nealey

Tommaso J. Giammaria & Gyuha Jo (Post doc.)

Supported jointly by the Labex LANEF and the Grenoble Nanosciences Foundation, the collaborative research project DiSABloC is “high-risk high-gain” (Technology Readiness Level, TRL2-4) and multidisciplinary (chemistry, physics, biology, nanoscience/ technology).

Diamond Power Devices

Diamond Power Devices Research and development on normally-off type diamond power switching devices

Hitoshi Umezawa

Khaled Driche (PhD)

Diamond is one of the promising materials for next generation semiconductor devices because of its superior material characteristics such as high breakdown field, high carrier mobility / saturation velocity, highest thermal conductivity and low dielectric constant.

Innovative Solar Cells

Nanowire Innovative Solar Cells Nanowire Innovative Solar Cells

Nikos Pelekanos

Siew Li Tan (Post doc.)

In the quest for next generation photovoltaic technology, nanowire solar cells attract wide interest for the enhanced light absorption of nanowire arrays and their large surface/volume ratio.

Iontronics Field effect

Iontronics Field effect study of nanodevices using ionic liquid gating

Shimpei Ono

Johanna Seidemann (PhD)

Ionic liquids (IL’s) are non-volatile fluids, consisting of cations and anions, which are ionically conducting, but electrically insulating and nowadays widely used for high field-effect carrier injection.

Quantum behavior

A nano trampoline to probe quantum behavior

Aviad Frydman

Tuyen Nguyen Duc (Post doc.)

Quantum phase transitions in which a system transits between two thermodynamic states at absolute zero temperature, as a result of manipulating a physical parameter such as magnetic field, pressure or chemical composition instead of temperature.

Quantum technologies

Quantum technologies with correlated matter at mesoscopic scales

Luigi Amico

Piero Naldesi & Enrico Compagno (Post doc.)

Key issues are studied in mesoscopic physics inspired both by quantum electronics and by the emerging field provided by atomtronics: ultra-cold atoms manipulated in micro-magnetic or laser-generated micro-optical circuits.

Semimetals growth

2D Topological Semimetals grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Athanasios Dimoulas

Roberto Sant (PhD)

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, often called the « new 3D graphene », are a new state of matter that shows linear dispersions (Dirac cones) in all three dimensions in the reciprocal space.

Turbulence

Multipoint statistics and large scale structures of turbulence

Joachim Peinke

Emeric Durozoy (PhD)

The main focus of the work is to apply comprehensive stochastic analysis methods, yielding to multipoint characterizations of turbulence.

Initiatives & Outcomes | Research

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