Acronyme du projet/ Acronym of the project

4.1.4.2Valorisation / Exploitation of results

IRAMIS@NanoINNOV has issued 39 patents during the last 5 years (full list in 7.2). 8 of them are already licensed to industrial companies. Besides, 16 contracts have been signed or are still alive between the IRAMIS@NanoINNOV teams and industrial companies (including Total, L'Oréal, Firmenich, LVMH, Rhodia, BioMérieux, CIFEC, INRS, PegasTech, Alchimer).

4 distinct startups, which all won the French Best Innovative Company Award in the Creation Development Category, were issued from IRAMIS@ NanoINNOV within the last ten years:

• Alchimer and AlchiMedics in August 2001: surface functionalization for microelectronics and biomedical domains, respectively

• PegasTech, in August 2009: surface functionalization for plastic metallization and biomedical tools.

• ETHERA in February 2010: development of simple solutions for measuring and disposing of chemical pollutants for hygiene and security markets, as well as air quality.

A fifth startup is currently in gestation within IRAMIS@NanoINNOV to use carbon nanotubes carpets for filtering issues.

For all its valorization activities, IRAMIS@NanoINNOV relies on the IP pool at CEA/DSM.

4.1.4.3Enseignement superieur / Higher education

IRAMIS@NanoINNOV scientists are deeply involved in higher education, together with communication activities towards the society and young students.

• PhD level: 16 of us have the HdR and commonly act as Thesis Director

• Master Level: 10 of us are currently teaching at Master level in various Universities, in particular the Master NanoSciences at U. Paris XI and the Master "Wealth Physical Engineering" at Paris V. We are also partner of the European Master COSOM-EMASCO «supramolecular and colloïdal chemistry”

• UnderGrad level: 6 of us are regularly teaching at Undergrad level

• High School and colleges: We are regularly involved in educational events in high schools, such as the CAMS project (Accompanying high school students towards science jobs), tutoring students for personal projects or "Cyclope Junior" conferences (Broad audience conferences at CEA-Saclay)

• Numerous courses have been given by our scientists in summer or winter schools (including the annual summer school organized by CNanoIdF)

• Nano events:

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  Course at the "NanoEcole", Autrans (2006) and Toulouse (2007)
  
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  Cyclope Junior conference: "Diving in the Nanoworld", June 2007.
  
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  Summer school E2Phy 2010 "The NanoWorld" for high school teachers
  
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  CEA/INST formation for researchers, "NANO: objets et technologies" (2007 et 2009)
  
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  IRSN formation "Characterizing and preventing risks associated with nanoparticles"
  

4.1.4.4Organisation / Organisation

IRAMIS@NanoINNOV is a consortium from CEA/IRAMIS intended to join the NanoSciences Research Center NanoINNOV, which should open on the Campus Paris-Saclay in the end of 2011 and will be joined by IEF and LPN laboratories (C2N center). It consists of four research teams actually scattered among four distinct CEA departments, which will be gathered in a single one upon moving to NanoINNOV. The main motivation of that move and merger in a single laboratory is clearly to capitalize on the existing scientific convergence and links between the four teams, and to create suitable conditions for increasing their creativity and productivity. Indeed, initiating partnerships with multiple actors, both academic and industrial, keeping our demands on excellence and exploitation as high as possible, increasing our reactivity require a simple and efficient organization, which is currently difficult to obtain as four distinct teams in four distinct departments. Grouping together those four active and excellent teams within a single department at NanoINNOV will obviously improve our scientific potential (through the synergetic effect of pooling our know-hows and equipment), increase our scientific and technical knowledge (in particular- but not only- through the flagship projects of the NanoSaclay LabEx, in which IRAMIS@NanoINNOV will be very active) and raise our connections with applied science players (through the IRT "SystemX", also strongly linked to the NanoINNOV project, and the IEED projects actually in preparation within the Campus Paris-Saclay).

Each team already demonstrated excellence in basic sciences together with a strong commitment to applied issues. All are very active in fund raising, both from local, national and international agencies together with industrial partners. (Within the last 3 years, more than 80 contracts, including 30 with ANR, 16 with the CnanoIdF, 13 with the RTRA Triangle de la Physique, 11 EU contracts. 17 of those contracts involve up to 36 different industrial partners).

4.1.5Partenaire 5/ Partner 5 : CEA-IRAMIS @ Saclay

4.1.5.1Recherche et innovation / Research and innovation

IRAMIS@Saclay results from the association of eight CEA teams (from the Service de Physique et Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces, Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé and Laboratoire Léon Brilloin) belonging to the IRAMIS institute, from the CEA Direction des Sciences de la Matière. IRAMIS@Saclay is a multidisciplinary lab dealing with several physical aspects of nanoscience including magnetic and optical properties of nanostructured materials, electronic transport in reduced dimensions, multifunctional oxides, electronic structure properties, magnetic resonance and neutron/matter interactions. It gathers 28 researchers and research engineers and aims at understanding basic physical properties specifically due to nanometer sized structures.

Evaluation: None of the laboratories have been evaluated by AERES yet. So far, and considering the scientific production of the individual groups, it can be estimated that we should be at least A.

High profile scientists:
SOUKIASSIAN, Patrick (H = 35, 4128 citations): Professor CE II in Paris-Sud and CEA Saclay.

Distinctions: 2007, Laureate of the « Semiconductor Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures Prize – SSIN 2007 »; since 2008, Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; 2010: Laureate of the « France-Taiwan Science Prize » of the French « Académie des Sciences ».

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Nature Mater, 8 PRL.

Other assessment points: Titulaire de la Prime d’Excellence Scientifique (PES); 266 publications (38 since 2006), 280 Plenary Lectures, Invited Conferences, Invited Colloquiums and Seminars (64 since 2006), 20 Patents (4 since 2006) ; Expert in evaluating i) Research Proposals from granting agencies of 8 different countries from Europe, America and Asia and ii) candidates suitability and achievements for high ranking faculty/scientist positions and/or promotion in major Universities or National Laboratories of 4 different countries from Europe, America and Asia
VIRET Michel (H=23, 3000 citations): CEA physicist

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Advances in Physics, 1 Nature Mater, 6 PRL.

Other assessment points: 70 Publications, 1 patent.
CHARRA, Fabrice (H = 23, 1754 citations) CEA physicist

Distinctions: Appointed as Senior Expert (2008)

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Science, 2 Angew Chem, 2 NanoLett, 6 Adv Mater, 3 PRL, 1 JACS.

Other assessment points: HDR (2007), Member of the selection committee for Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) 2009; 2010, Expert for Agence Nationale de l’Evaluation de la Recherche (AERES).
FIORINI-DEBUISSCHERT, Céline (H = 24, 1683 citations) CEA physicist

Major publications (IF>7): 2 Angew. Chem, 1 Nano Lett., 1 J. am. Chem. Soc., 3 Adv. Mater.

Other assessment points: HDR (2009).

KLEIN Olivier (H=20, 1500 citations) CEA physicist

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Science, 1 Nature Phys, 9 PRL

Other assessment points: 70 Publications, 3 patents.
SILLY, Fabien (H = 15, 640 citations) CEA physicist

Distinctions: Young Scientist Award, British Association of Crystal Growth” 2005; Award of Merit, Department of Materials, University of Oxford” 2005.

Major publications (IF>7): 2 ACS Nano, 2 J. Am. Chem. Soc., 3 Phys. Rev. Lett., 2 Adv Mater.

Other assessment points: ERC Starting Grant 2010; HDR (2010), scientific expert for the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST)
Research activities:

IRAMIS@Saclay issued over 200 publications in reviewed journals between 2006 and 2010, together with 16 patents. Within the same period, 17 PhD students have graduated and 5 HdR have been obtained.

The scientific activities of IRAMIS@Saclay are devoted to the basic study of nanostructured material with expertise in nanophotonics, nanomagnetism, nanoelectronics, spin electronics, magnetic resonance, complex oxides growth, multiferroics and theory/modeling of electronic and magnetic properties at the nanoscale. The group has a particularly strong expertise in materials characterization with the open instrumental platform of the SPCSI and the neutron facility in the ORPHEE reactor (detailed below) as well as a strong expertise on several synchrotron lines (in close collaborations with SOLEIL).

The six particular research activities relevant for the labex project are detailed below:

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  "Photonic Nano objects": we are working in particular on photo-actuation of nano-objects and individual molecules, a work that could lead to the demonstration of scanning probe microscopy in volume. This would be possible if (i) gradients of optical field intensity can be increased (with for instance plasmonic nano-antennas, near field, optical exaltation field by collective effects), (ii) nano-objects interactions with the optical field could be enhanced by developing alternative interactions (using molecular motors, thermal phenomena…).
  
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  "Quantum and spin electronics": we will bring our expertise in modelization of spin transport at the nanoscale, together with new knowledge in using self-assembly of organic molecules to organize magnetic nanodots (ERC StGrant, F. Silly). Our expertise in the fabrication and characterization of atomic-scale defined magnetic interfaces will also be useful.
  
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  Our strong expertise in local probe analysis of soft interfaces will be used to characterize bio-relevant surfaces belonging to the "nanomedecine" field.
  
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  Our expertise with the break junction technique allows us to participate in a molecular nano-spintronics project. The aim would be to contact a single molecular object between two electrodes whose spacing can be controlled with a resolution of 10pm in order to study electronic magneto-transport through an individual object.
  
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  Our activity with multiferroics and ferroelectric/magnetic heterostructures will be applied to the electric field control of magnetization in nano-sized magnetic memories.
  
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  Our activity in ferromagnetic resonance in nanoscale structures using tools like the MRFM opens the door to a precise study of magnetization dynamics with spin transfer torque.
  

IRAMIS@Saclay teams have numerous internal and external collaborations both within the Campus Paris-Saclay and other French and foreign laboratories.

Equipments:

Equipments are one of the strong points of IRAMIS@Saclay because SPCSI holds a full platform for surface analyses under high vacuum and the LLB owns several neutron diffractometers and reflectometers. Moreover, the SPEC has full clean room facilities including deposition, etching and both electronic and UV lithography. All together, the teams of IRAMIS@Saclay are fully equipped to pursue high caliber research in nanosciences with UHV MBE deposition, AFM/STMs under UHV and low-temperature, LEEM/PEEM, XPS and magnetic characterization with SQUIDs, VSM and scanning MOKE experiments as well as the neutron facility and the clean room. The details of the equipment available are given below:

Synthesis: UHV MBE with RHEED, AES, XPS and magneto optical Kerr effect; 80m² clean room fully equipped with UV and e-beam lithography, RIE etching, observation tools

Spectro-microscopy: Multiphoton PhotoElectron Emission Microscopy (M-PEEM) and Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) combined with a femtosecond-laser excitation system continuously tunable from IR to UV

Microscopy: 1 UHV STM with variable temperature + 2 UHV STM, 1 Low temperature UHV STM with magnetic field (currently purchased under the ERC StGrant obtained by F. Silly), 1 coupled UHV STM-AFM, MRFM for magnetic force microscopy in ferromagnetic resonance mode

Magnetic measurements: SQUID and VSM magnetometers, A single crystal neutron diffractometer (6T2) optimized for the study of epitaxial thin films; A single crystal neutron diffractometer (5C1) for the study of magnetic crystals and in particular molecular magnets; A polarized neutron reflectometer (PRISM) dedicated to the study of magnetic thin films; A Small Angle Scattering Instrument (PAXY) for the study of magnetic nano-particles; Other neutron scattering instruments are occasionally used for the study of magnetic nano-particles and magnetic crystals: powder diffractometers (G-41, G-61), inelastic scattering spectrometer (4F1 and MIBEMOL)

Besides, IRAMIS@Saclay is coordinator of the HIDONA project: "High-flux and high-brillance X-ray Diffractometer Optimized for the simultaneous investigation of the local structure, morphology and composition of functional nano-structures", and partner in the TEMPOS and STRAS projects. A project will also be submitted by IRAMIS@Saclay, as coordinator, to the NanoBioTech call.