- Aeronautics - Aerospace - Defence
- Chemistry - Materials
- Complex systems and software engineering
- Digital
- Energy, Ecology, Environment
- Quality of life - Health - Food
Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N)
Research unit
The Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N) is a joint research unit created in 2016 from the regrouping of two leading Ile-de-France laboratories in their field: the Laboratory of Photonics and Nanostructures (LPN) and the Institute of Fundamental Electronics (IEF) ). In 2018, the teams moved into a new building in the heart of the Paris-Saclay Campus.
C2N is developing research in the fields of materials, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nano-bio-technologies and microsystems, as well as those of nanotechnologies. On these subjects, it deals with fundamental and applied aspects.
The C2N hosts a clean room of 2900 m2, dedicated to micro-nanofabrication processes, growth, epitaxy and characterization of materials. Spaces are also dedicated to university and permanent training in micro-nanotechnologies, and 250m2 are reserved for start-up or SME activities. This Technology Center, open to all academic and industrial players in the field, is part of the national network of micro and nanotechnology plants (Renatech).
Innovation themes
- Energy, Ecology, Environment
- Digital
- Instrumentation, electronics, robotics and cobotics
- Complex systems and software engineering
- Telecom, converged network, fixed and mobile, internet of things
- Software design, big data, cloud, high performance computing
- Modelling and simulation
- Smart grid
- Quality of life - Health - Food
- Digital modelling, data visualisation, Human - Machine Interaction
- Biomaterials
- Chemistry - Materials
- Aeronautics - Aerospace - Defence
- Photonics - optical materials, application nanotechnology
- Mineral (materials, nanomaterials)
- Physical chemistry (electrochemistry, thermochemistry...)
- Industrial process engineering
- Therapeutic technologies (drugs, genetics, biomarkers, biomolecules, etc.)
- Materials and processes
- Free software, web
Rue André Ampère
Bâtiment 220
91405 ORSAY
Expertises
- photonics
- microfluidics
- quantum boxes
- photonic crystals
- nanowires
- optomechanics
- synthesis and study of graphene
- microscopy
- spectroscopy
- characterization
- nanoelectronics
- microsystems and nanobitechnology
- autonomous systems
- optoelectronics
- Monte-Carlo simulation
- electronic transport
- THz sources
- plasmonics
- spintronics
- thin film deposition
- CMOS technology
- bio-compatible micro-antennas
- nanofabrication
- solar arrays
Applications sectors
- Networks / Telecom
- Biotechnology
- Aeronautics / Aerospace
- Electronic / photonics
- Materials (Metal, Glass, Ceramic, Composite...)
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 120
Number of doctoral students : 100
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
Orsay site:
- deposition in vacuum, oxydation and annealing, photolithography, dry etching, electronic microscopy and lithography, physical and optical characterization, electrical characterization in low frequency range
- 6 automatic network analysers, 2 spectrum analysers, 2 microwave calibrated noise diodes ENR 5dB (18 GHz) and 15dB (26,5GHz), automatic polarisation (2 parametric sources HP4142)
- optical microscopy in visible range, NIR, DUV, IR microthermography with InSb camera, interferomatrical optical profilometers
- LASER Doppler vibrometer, Tmap system (Fogale Nanotech) used for wafer dimensionnal control, microindentation, cryo station for 3 points piezoelectrical measurements
- T resistivity, FFT IR spectrometry (FTIR, Varian) with PIKE mapping system for the characterization of surfaces, dielectric films etc.
- milling tools, piercing line, micro-plasma assembly, TIG soldering
- modeling : NEGF-TB, DFT, Ab-initio, Schrödinger-Poisson solver, MONACO (electronic transport via Monte-Carlo), 62 processors / 180 cores cluster
Marcoussis site: http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/TECHNO/CentraleTechno.php
Technological platform:
- metal and dielectric deposition, UV and electronic lithography, dry and wet etching, characterization (profilometry, EBM), thermal treatment
- alternative lithography (nano-printing, guided auto-assembly), Focused Ion Beam etching
- epitaxy means (several materials, high mobility / EBM and MOCVD)
- high resolution RX diffraction and TEM
- luminescence spectroscopy
Descartes platform: functional characterization of optical telecommunication devices (short pulses, LASER pulses, low-cost 40G emittor ...)
Keywords
- optical telecommunications
- optomechanics
- epitaxy
- semi-conductors
- guided waves
- solar arrays
- cavity
- quantum transport
- cryo-electronics
- silicon
- thin films
- lithography
- III-V materials
- spintronics
- optoelectronics
- nanodevices
- meta-materials
- autonomous systems
- technological processes
- innovative materials
- micro-technology
- in-vivo systems
- graphene
- 2D materials
Valuation offer
MONACO : Monte-Carlo simulation of electronic transport
Patents :
-39 patents (Orsay site), 26 patents (Marcoussis site)
- Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser devices allowing high coherence high power and large tunability, EP14305752, (2014-05-21)
- substrat comprenant une couche de silicium et/ou de germanium et un ou plusieurs nanofils d'orientation perpendiculaire à la surface du substrat (N° 1256374). (2012-07-03)
- sources et capteurs de lumière comprenant au moins une microcavité à mode Tamm plasmonique localisé (International Application N°: PCT/FR1003/881) FR 1003/881 , (2010-09-30)
- heterostructures semiconductrices monolithiques epitaxiees et leur procede de fabrication (International Application N°: PCT/FR2008/051669), FR 2008/051669, (2008-09-17)
Patents of each team :
http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/ELPHYSE/ELPHYSE.php
http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/PHODEV/PHODEV.php
http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/NanoPhotonIQ/NanoPhotonIQ.php
http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/NANOFLU/NANOFLU.php
http://www.lpn.cnrs.fr/fr/GOSS/GOSS.php
Projects examples
~80 outside projects/year via technological platform
List of CTU's projetcs http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/ief/ief.nsf/CTU/CTU_projetsListe.html
Polymers technologies http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/ief/ief.nsf/CTU/CTU_projet18.html
- other projects :
HONEYPOL
ILNACS
Nanoembrace
PHOXTRO
CQOM
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
- France : Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Institut Néel, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, Foton-OHM, Institut Physique de Rennes, ...
- International : Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) Université de Zhejiang (China), Frontier Research Systems (Japan), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid (Spain), Université de Barcelone (Spain), University of Cambridge (UK), Polytecnico di Milano (Italy), Naval Research Laboratory (USA) ...
Private collaborations
- collaboration with several companies (major companies, SME, start-up)
Establishments of affiliation
