Acronyme du projet/ Acronym of the project

4.1.10.2Valorisation / Exploitation of results

UMPhys/Spintro has issued 5 patents during the last 5 years (full list in 7.2), all of them jointly owned by CNRS and Thalès. UMPHys/Spintro has no direct contract with industrial partners apart from Thalès itself. Besides, 8 current research projects involve both Thalès and various others industrial companies (including EADS and various SMEs).

For all its valorization activities, UMPHys/Spintro relies on the IP pool at CNRS and Thales

4.1.10.3Enseignement superieur / Higher education

UMPHys/Spintro scientists are deeply involved in higher education, together with communication activities towards the society and young students.

• PhD level: 5 of us have the HdR and commonly act as Thesis Director

• Master Level: 8 of us are currently teaching at Master level in various Universities, in particular the Master NanoSciences at U. Paris XI and the Masters "Materials Sciences and Nano-Objects" at Paris VI and "Quantum devices and Nanosystems" at U. Paris VII.”

• UnderGrad level: 5 of us are regularly teaching at Undergrad level, including Engineering Schools

• Nano events: After the 2007 Physics Nobel Prize awarded to Albert Fert, the CNRS/Thales Physics lab became strongly involved in several actions towards the “grand public”. It ranges from interviews to the press to numerous conferences in high schools. We would highlight here the exhibition on spintronics organized at the Palais de la Découverte in collaboration with the network Cnano-IdF during 3 months in 2008-2009. http://www.palais-decouverte.fr/index.php?id=1779

4.1.10.4Organisation / Organisation

In the Labex Nanos project, UMPhys will involve the team "Spintronics and Functional Oxides" (UMPHys/Spintro). UMPhys/Spintro gathers 13 researchers (9 from CNRS and 4 from Universities), 4 CNRS research engineers, 9 PhD students and 6 postdoctoral fellows. Its main research activities deal with spin-polarized tunneling effects, spin-transfer torque phenomena, spin-injection in semiconductors, magneto-Coulomb effects, multiferroics and ferroelectrics based heterostructures. The UMPHys/Spintro team is very active in fund raising, both from local, national and international agencies. Within the last 5 years, 13 major national contracts (3 ANR Blanc; 10 ANR PNANO) and 8

European contracts (2 RTN-ITN, 4 STREP, 1 ERC Junior, 1 ERC Senior) were obtained.

4.1.11Partenaire 11/ Partner 11 : Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (LPMC) UMR7643

4.1.11.1Recherche et innovation / Research and innovation

X-LPMC is part of the "Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée – LPMC" (physics of condensed matter lab), which belongs to the physics department of the Ecole Polytechnique. Ecole Polytechnique, often refered to as « X », is one of the most prestigious French engineering school. Research department is formed of 22 laboratories corresponding to 1600 people, including 640 researchers mostly from CNRS.

The LPMC lab is associated with CNRS (UMR 7643). About 75 people work in the lab, including 16 researchers (mainly from CNRS), 3 research engineers, 13 PhD students and 3 postdoctoral fellows.

Research activities are multidisciplinary, dealing with several aspects of nanoscience, materials sciences, chemistry of materials and solid state physics. The laboratory is organized in such a way to promote interaction between researchers from different fields of expertise.

Researchers from the X-LPMC partner belong to three of the four teams in the lab: The Solid State Chemistry group (Head T. Gacoin), the "Electrochemistry and Thin Films" group (Head P. Allongue) and the "Electrons, Photons and Surfaces" group (Head J. Peretti).

Evaluation: The PMC lab was evaluated by AERES in 2008 and quoted A+ (no group quotation)
High profile scientists: 3 scientists from X-LPMC have a h-index >20
GACOIN, Thierry (H = 26, 2500 citations); CNRS, DR2

Distinctions: Solid State Chemistry Division Award, French Chemical Society (2006)

Major publications (IF>7):1 Nature NanoTech., 2 NanoLett., 1 ACS Nano, 1 Acc. Chem. Res. 3 JACS, 2 Adv Funct. Mater, 1 PRL, 2 Adv. Mat.

Other assessment points: 14 patents, Saint-Gobain Professorship (Ecole Polytechnique)
BOILOT, Jean-Pierre (H = 45, 5980 citations); Ecole Polytechnique, Pr High Class

Distinctions: Yvan Pesches Award, French Sciences Academy (2001)

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Nature NanoTech., 2 NanoLett., 1 ACS Nano, 1 Acc. Chem. Res. 3 JACS, 2 Adv Funct. Mater, 2 Adv. Mat.

Other assessment points: 17 patents
ALLONGUE, Philippe (H = 31, > 3200 citations); CNRS, DR2

Distinctions: CNRS Bronze Medal (1989); A. v Humboldt Fellow (1990-1992; H. Fisher Medal (1997); Faraday Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999), Humboldt Fellow (1990-1992)

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Science, 3 JACS, 2 PRL
MAROUN, Fouad (H = 10, 970 citations); CNRS, CR1

Distinctions: A. v. Humboldt Fellow (1997-1998)

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Science, 2 PRL
PERETTI, Jacques (H = 11, 430 citations); CNRS, CR1

Distinctions: Young Author Best Paper Award (IBM-ICPS, 1990); CNRS Bronze Medal (1995).

Major publications (IF>7): 4 PRL

Other assessment points: 2 patents
PAGET, Daniel (H = 16, 1037 citations); CNRS, DR2

Major publications (IF>7): 1 PRL
Research activities: X-LPMC issued 86 publications in reviewed journals between 2006 and 2010, together with 10 patents. Among those publications: 1 Nature Nanotech., 1 Acc. Chem. Res., 2 JACS, 2 Adv. Funct. Mater., 3 PRL., 1 ACS Nano (see 7.2 for details)

17 PhD theses have been obtained within the same period. Among them, 12 new doctors already hold a permanent position and 4 hold a temporary position. 1 HdR was obtained during that period at X-LPMC.

Scientists from X-LPMC gave 30 invited conferences at national and international conferences during the last 5 years. (A partial list is given in 7.2)

X-LPMC teams have numerous internal and external collaborations (18 current collaborations within the Campus Paris-Saclay within distinct laboratories, many of them members of the NanoSaclay LabEx, ca. 10 collaborations with research French labs and more than 12 international active collaborations).

The 3 teams composing X-LPMC present complementary skills in the synthesis of nano-objects and nanostructured materials using soft chemistry routes, nanomaterials and nanostructures for photonics and spintronics, surface fonctionnalization, surface magnetism and physics of spin, electron transport in thin films and nanoscale devices

Equipments: X-LPMC is a multidisciplinary lab which often develops specifically its own equipments to address basic science in the field of synthesis of nano-objects (nanoparticles, nanotubes…), molecular, polymer and bio-inspired self-assembly, surface functionalization, surface magnetism, nanodevices fabrication for the development of circuits with learning capabilities, study of nanoscale transport and novel architectures, toxicity of nano-objects. As such, it holds a full et of scientific tools and facilities for designing, synthesizing and studying matter at the nanoscale.

Synthesis and material growth: organic synthesis labs, PECVD deposition of amorphous a-Si and a-SiC alloys, electrodeposition.

Spectroscopy: 2 IR spectrometer (also in electrochemical environment), solid state NMR, absorption, reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy, spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, polarized photoluminescence spectroscopy and microscopy, polarized cathodoluminescence

Analysis: Magnetic measurement facility (SQUIDs, MOKE) including MOKE in electrochemical environment; luminescence, dynamic light scattering for colloidal suspensions, X-Ray diffraction and diffusion, electrochemical methods, including impedance and Quartz crystal Microbalance.

Microscopy: 2 SEM (Including a FEG-SEM), full access to TEM, 3 STM/AFM, MFM, SNOM, Electrochemical STM and nanolithography.