Equipe: Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces

Members Permanent members: Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sébastien Royer, Michel Goldmann PhD Student: Jean de Dieu Niyonzima Liquid crystal topological defects are among condensed matter topological defects the easiest to control for a deep study of defect structure...

Members Permanent members: Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sébastien Royer, Michel Goldmann, Emmanuel Lhuillier We use dedicated liquid crystal topological defects to confine nanoparticles in 1 Dimension (using liquid crystal smectic dislocations) or in 2 Dimensions (using...

Members  Permanent member: Jean-Noël Aqua Post-Doc: Kennet Rodriguez Hannikainen We study epitaxial crystal growth using different models of system dynamics at atomic scales. The systems studied concern the growth of SiGe quantum dots by morphological...

  Team Permanent members: Jean-Noël Aqua, Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sébastien Royer, Michel Goldmann, Emmanuel Lhuillier Self-organization, which allows the appearance of structured domains from a process that is generally out of equilibrium, has many applications in...

  Team Permanent members: Silvère Akamatsu, Sabine Bottin-Rousseau, Bumedijen Raka PhD student: Eliane Farhi Solidification microstructures are out of equilibrium patterns. Of micrometric characteristic dimensions, they appear on the crystal growth front (solidification front)....

  Surface functionalization is essential for controlling important properties of materials. We are especially focused on developing highly controlled molecular layer on solid surfaces for adjusting electric and electronic properties. We are measuring the...

  In addition to their fundamental interest, soft interfaces play a major role in many applied devices through the influence they exert both on the surface properties themselves and on the organization of the...

2D materials are an emerging class of low-dimensional materials that are promise as being the building blocks for the next generation of miniaturized electronics and optoelectronics devices. Since the discovery of graphene, thousands of...

Since their initial use for colouring cups by the ancient Romans, a large number of amazing properties of nanoparticles related to their small size has been discovered and still continue to emerge. In our...

The team has a strong interest in functional materials with potential applications for electronics and optoelectronics. This includes nanocrystals (chalcogenides and perovskites), 2D materials and also organic molecules. Our research spans from fundamental science...