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Chemistry - Materials
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Complex systems and software engineering
Unité mixte de physique CNRS/Thales (UMPhy)
Research unit
UMPHY is a research unit of both CNRS and the Thalès corporation, which is associated with Université Paris-Sud. The research carried out at UMPHY is state of the art, with for instance the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance in 1988 (2007 Nobel Prize), or the development of spintronics. The main research themes are nanoelectronics, microfabrication, high critical temperature supraconductors, and bio-inspired electronic circuits. Thanks to its state of the art technological platforms, UMPHY is a major contributor in the fileds with which it interacts.
Innovation themes
1, avenue Augustin Fresnel
91120 PALAISEAU
Expertises
- spin transfer
- magnomics
- LIGA microfabrication
- near field microscopy
- tunneling barriers in graphene
- spin filters
- ferroelectrical memristors
- insulating oxyde heterostructure
- bio-inspired calculus architectures
- thin films functionalization
Applications sectors
- Networks / Telecom
- Electronic / photonics
- Materials (Metal, Glass, Ceramic, Composite...)
Total number of employees
Number of researchers : 22
Number of doctoral students : 17
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
- near field microscopy (CT-AFM, PFM, MFM, nanolithography)
- LIGA microfabrication
Keywords
Projects examples
- spintronics : 30 contracts (12 CE, 18 ANR)
- functional oxydes : 11 contracts (including 1 ERC Advanced et 1 ERC Consolidator fin 2013, and 6 ANR)
- supraconductors /signal treatment : 9 contracts (including 2 CE, 3 ANR, 1 DGA)
- cognitive treatment of information : 3 contracts CE (including 1 ERC Starting) and 1 ANR contract
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
Advanced Ferroics lab, CentraleSupelec, Laboratoire de Physique du Solide, Orsay Synchrotron SOLEIL Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Univ. Paris Diderot Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux, ESPCI, Paris CEA Iramis, Saclay ETRANGER : Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Spain Physics of Complex Materials Group, Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany Luxembourg Institue of Technology, Luxembourg University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Private collaborations
Thalès
Establishments of affiliation
