PhD Programs

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Beznasyuk Daria

Growth and structural characterizations of InAs-GaAs axial nanowires heterostructures

Nanowires can host combinations of materials with very different lattice parameters: the mismatch strain is effciently relaxed on the sidewalls, enabling the formation of dislocation free interfaces.

Bourrier Antoine

Graphene bioelectronics for long-term neuronal interfacing in-vivo

This PhD thesis aimed at testing new materials and coatings to improve in-vivo implants for brain bioelectronics interfaces.

Camosi Lorenzo

Topological magnetic solitons in thin epitaxial films with reduced symmetry

I used a combined theoretical and experimental approach to study the relationship between the crystal symmetry, the magnetic interactions and topological solitons in epitaxial magnetic thin films.

Chauvet Nicolas

From Sum Frequency Generation to Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion in hybrid nonlinear plasmonic structures

Nonlinear optical processes are the core of many technologies such as quantum cryptography or non-invasive multiphoton microscopy.

Chioar Ioan-Augustin

Exploring frustration in artificial magnetic architectures

Frustration is a ubiquitous concept and can be defined as a competition between interactions which cannot all be satisfied simultaneously.

Corral Alvaro Garcia

Spin-sensitive tunneling in Superconductor - Quantum Dot junctions

When inserting a single quantum dot (QD, a molecule or a nanoparticle) between two superconducting (S) contacts, the resulting device has fascinating electronic conduction properties, which reflect the coupling of a discrete orbital quantum energy level to superconductivity.

DRICHE Khaled

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

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.

De-Moraes Isabelle

Model nanosystems to progress in the understanding of hard magnetic materials

There is significant growth in demand for high performance magnets for use in green energy technologies and robotics, while the demand for mid-range magnets is also growing.

Delshadi Sarah

Rapid immunoassays exploiting magnetic nanoparticles and micro-magnets

Magnetic attraction is widely used in in vitro diagnostics, as it provides non-contact forces able to capture the objects of interest.

Durozoy Emeric

Multipoint statistics and large scale structures of turbulence

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

Florea Ovidiu

Very low temperature and high magnetic field Faraday force magnetometer for frustrated magnets

The objective of this work was to develop a Faraday magnetometer to measure absolute values of magnetization at very low temperatures and high magnetic fields with a high sensitivity.

Fogliano Francesco

Ultrasensitive nano-optomechanical force field sensor at dilution temperatures

An ultrasensitve force field sensor based on the optical readout of suspended vibrating nanowires has been successfully operated at dilution temperatures.

Garcia Stéphane

Production of micron-sized films and pellets of solid hydrogen and its isotopes

Physicist studying laser-matter interaction are really interested in having very thin (10 μm) ribbons of solid hydrogen that could be used as a target.

Garçon Laurie-Amandine

Development of electronic tongues for study of complex mixtures and bacteria

Today, novel analytical tools providing rapid and reliable analysis are increasingly demanded in diverse domains such as food and beverage industries.

Girard Gaétan

Development of Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction and ptychography methods

This PhD topic focuses on the study and use of Coherent X-ray Imaging techniques, which allow to reconstruct single objects with a resolution of 5 to 10 nm.

Grasland Hadrien

Electronic and magnetic properties of iron based superconductors

During my PhD work I have implemented point contact spectroscopy and scanning Hall-probe microscopy to study the superconducting properties of iron based materials.

Gueye Magatte

Highly conductive PEDOT materials for all-polymeric flexible transparent heaters and thermoelectricity

During this thesis we developed one of the most conductive PEDOT-based material for future optoelectronic and thermoelectric applications.

Ilic Stefan

Helical Superconductivity and the Anomalous Josephson Effect

Graphene was the first member of the family of two-dimensional (2D) materials. The quest for novel 2D materials is boosted by the prospect for complementing the toolkit of properties of this family.

Jeanneau Justin

Synthesis and physical properties under high pressure of Cr⁴⁺ based compounds

Potential candidates as parent High-Tc compounds are the members of the chromate family, as a result of their layered structure.

Jeannin Mathieu

Control of the emission of semiconducting nanowires using plasmonic nanoantennas

Semiconducting nanowires offer the possibility to fabricate extremely high quality light-emitting structures for a wide range of applications.

Le Calvez Kévin

Topological Josephson junctions – Joule poisoning of Majorana modes

The new excitations called Majorana zero modes that can emerge in topological superconducting systems are attracting considerable attention for the prospect of topological quantum computing.

Luong Minh Anh

Doping engineering and characterization in germanium nanowires using in-situ transmission electron microscopy

This PhD focuses on doping engineering and quantification using a metal phase propagation of aluminium in germanium nanowires (NWs), that can be performed in-situ in a transmission electron microscope (TEM).

Martinez Javier Puertas

Many-body quantum optics with superconducting circuits

The use of superconducting circuits as building blocks for studying light matter interactions at the fundamental level was introduced more than a decade ago and is named Circuit Quantum ElectroDynamics (circuitQED).

Maréchal Aurélien

Diamond MOS capacitor for future diamond transistors

Diamond has attracted a lot of interest in the last 20 years: it shows the ultimate physical properties which can improve the performances of future power devices in terms of conduction and switching losses.

Mathur Shashank

A two-dimensional crystalline form of silicon oxide

Graphene was the first member of the family of two-dimensional (2D) materials. The quest for novel 2D materials is boosted by the prospect for complementing the toolkit of properties of this family.

Mazaleyrat Estelle

Shiba states in superconducting graphene

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states emerge from the competition between superconductivity and magnetism. Our goal is to study these states in graphene.

Noël Paul

Spin-charge conversion studied by spin pumping in spin-orbit materials

Spin-charge conversion is one of the main current challenges of spintronics. Our project focuses on its study in gold alloy systems (AuW and AuTa) and in HgTe.

Orrù Marta

Semiconductor nanowires for Ultimate Magnetic Objects

A quantum dot inserted in a nanowire allows a versatile design of its shape and strain configuration, in order to tailor the orbital and spin anisotropy of confined holes.

Pham Van Tuong

Nanostructures for the electrical measurement of the Spin Hall effect and the detection of domain walls

Spin−orbitronics is based on the ability of spin−orbit interactions to achieve the conversion between charge currents and pure spin currents.

Richler Kevin-Davis

Non-equilibrium quantum modeling of nano-structure based solar cells

Solar cells based on organic materials have emerged, showing many advantages compared to their inorganic counterparts.

Rojan Katharina

Phonon mediated conversion of excitonpolaritons Rabi oscillations into THz radiation

Semiconductor microcavities in the strong-coupling regime exhibit an energy scale in the terahertz (THz) frequency range fixed by the Rabi splitting between the upper and lower exciton-polariton states.

Sant Roberto

2D Topological Semimetals grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

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.

Sattler Tobias

Differential ultrafast mode switching in micropillar cavities

The injection of free carriers can change the resonance frequency of a semiconductor optical microcavity reversibly within few ps.

Seidemann Johanna

Iontronics Field effect study of nanodevices using ionic liquid gating

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.

Singhal Dhruv

Semiconducting Nanowires for Thermoelectrics

The thermal conductivity of semiconductors is dominated by phonon transport, implying that the electrical and thermal conductivities can be decoupled.

Sochinskii Arkadii

Next step toward the miniaturisation of space cryocoolers

An experimental and numerical study of Darcy – Weisbach friction factor and Nusselt number at moderate Reynolds numbers

Stano Michal

Magnetic Microscopy of Domains and Domain Walls in Ferromagnetic Nanotubes

Exploration of magnetic domains and domain walls in magnetic nanotubes and more complex geometries such as multilayered core-shell nanotubes and diameter modulated nanowires.

Suzon Abdul Aziz

Pathway towards improved efficiency of kesterite based solar cell

Kesterite Cu₂ZnSn(S,Se)₄ (CZTSSe) absorbers are very attractive since they are made of abundant and non-toxic constituents.

Vinograd Igor

Interplay between charge-density waves and high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates

In his PhD, I. Vinograd has used four complementary parameters (temperature, magnetic field, carrier concentration and hydrostatic pressure) to tune the competition between CDW and superconductivity in YBa₂Cu₃O_y.

Initiatives & Outcomes | Education

LANEF’s successful PhD program already financed over 50 PhD grants covering a wide range of topics in experimental investigations as well as theoretical modeling and computational physics.