Acronyme du projet/ Acronym of the project

4.1.14.2Valorisation / Exploitation of results

LPS/Nano has issued 4 patents during the last 5 years (full list in 7.2), 1 of them being co-owned with Altis-Infineon. Besides, 3 contracts have been signed or are still alive between the LPS/Nano teams and industrial companies (including Thalès, Siemens, EADS, PegasTech and NanoCyl).

3 service and consulting companies were launched from LPS/Nano and are still active (Science & Tec S.A. in 1988, Phi-Axis S.A.R.L. in 2001, Novitom S.A.R.L. in 2010)

For some of its valorization activities, LPS/Nano relies on the IP pool at U. Paris XI or CNRS.

4.1.14.3Enseignement superieur / Higher education

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

• PhD level: 7 of us have the HdR and commonly act as Thesis Director

• Master Level: Master NanoSciences (U. Paris XI); Master "Condensed Matter Physics" (U. Paris XI); Master "Solid State Physics and Dense Matter" (U. Paris XI); Master "Structural and functional engineering of biomolecules" (U. Paris XX); Graduate School "Therapeutic innovation" (U. Paris XI)

• UnderGrad level: regular teaching at Undergrad level, including Innovative practicals in microscopy (TEM and near-field microscopies) for 1^st year Master students in physics at U. Paris XI

4.1.14.4Organisation / Organisation

LPS/Nano is a consortium from LPS specially created to join the NanoSaclay LabEx.

Within the last 5 years, 9 ANR, 3 with the CnanoIdF, 5 with the RTRA Triangle de la Physique, 4 EU contracts.

4.1.15Partenaire 15/ Partner 15 : Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO) UMR8214

4.1.15.1Recherche et innovation / Research and innovation

The Molecular Nanoscience Group (ISMO/MN; Head G. Dujardin) belongs to the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO) which a joint laboratory between CNRS and U. Paris XI (UMR 8214).

ISMO/MN develops new concepts and methods for the control of molecular nanosystems able to act as electronic, optical, chemical or mechanical nanodevices. In particular, ISMO/MN

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  Builts atomic scale architectures on surfaces
  
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  Controls the electronic, optical and quantic state of those architectures
  
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  Models those modified surfaces when irradiated with a laser beam or a STM tip
  

ISMO/MN gathers 4 researchers (including 1 assistant professor), 2 PhD students and 1 postdoctoral fellow.

Evaluation: ISMO was evaluated by AERES in 2008, and quoted A+
High profile scientists:
DUJARDIN, Gérald (H = 29, >3000 citations); CNRS; DR1

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Chem. Rev., 2 NanoLett., 3 JACS, 2 PRL.
Research activities: ISMO/MN issued 42 publications in reviewed journals between 2006 and 2010. Among those publications: 1 Chem. Rev., 2 NanoLett., 3 JACS, 2 PRL. (see 7.2 for details)

5 PhD theses have been obtained within the same period. Among them, 4 new doctors already hold a permanent position and 1 holds a temporary position. 1 HdR were obtained during that period at ISMO/MN.

Scientists from ISMO/MN gave more than 20 invited lectures at national and international conferences, including for delivering keynote lectures during the last 5 years. (A partial list is given in 7.2)

ISMO/MN has numerous internal and external collaborations (21 current collaborations within the Campus Paris-Saclay within distinct laboratories, many of them members of the NanoSaclay LabEx, ca. 40 collaborations with research French labs and more than 20 international active collaborations)

Equipments: ISMO/MN is mainly relying on local probe microscopy to build and study molecular nanomachines. Hence its equipment is essentially

Microscopy: UHV STM, variable temperature UHV STM, low temperature UHV STM, AFM with optical microscopy

Besides, ISMO/MN is the leader of the STRAS (Spectroscopy and Transport at the Atomic Scale) EquipEx project, which intends to create a full platform for local probe analysis: multi-probe low-temperature UHV microscope (STM, AFM, SNOM) + very low temperature UV STM (300 mK) + ultra low temperature UV STM (30 mK)

4.1.15.2Organisation / Organisation

ISMO/MN is part of ISMO Laboratory. It thus benefits from its shared facilities and administrative staff. Its budget mainly relies on funded scientific projects from local, national and international agencies (Within the last 5 years, 4 with ANR, 1 EU contracts).

4.1.16Partenaire 16/ Partner 16 : Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (LAC) UPR3321

4.1.16.1Recherche et innovation / Research and innovation

The team "Dynamical spectroscopy of single nano-objects" (LAC/DSSNO; Head A. Débarre), part of the nanospectroscopy team, belongs to the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, which is a CNRS laboratory (UPR 3312). The recent team activity aims to gather fundamental knowledge on the response of molecules to light in metal nanostructures, especially on quenching and exaltation of the fluorescence of molecules located in designed hot spots. One concern is the determination of the optical properties of original hybrid nanoprobes composed of a metallic core capped with ligands labeled with chromophores. These studies are performed at the single molecule level. The team has competences in both imaging and spectroscopic methods at this scale, such as fluorescence, tunable Raman and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy under one and two-photon excitation. These objectives and competences are directly in line with the proposal of an efficient use of the energy deposited in a nanostructure

LAC/DSSNO is composed of 1 scientist and 1 research engineer.

Evaluation: LAC was evaluated by AERES in 2008. Its quotation was A+

Excerpt of the report (A+): "L’équipe nanospectroscopie est composée de deux chercheurs, d’un enseignant-chercheur, d’un ingénieur de recherche, d’un ATER et d’un doctorant pour les 4 dernières années. Cette équipe est bien reconnue pour ces travaux sur la détection de molécules uniques par des méthodes optiques (fluorescence, spectroscopie Raman) utilisant la microscopie confocale. L’équipe a un bon taux de publications dont certaines dans de très bonnes revues (une dans Science). On peut regretter cependant l’absence de conférences invitées dans des congrès internationaux malgré la qualité et l’originalité des recherches qui sont menées. Un des résultats remarquables obtenus par cette équipe est l’étude, vibrationnelle par spectroscopie Raman et structurale par diffraction électronique, sur un même nanotube de carbone monofeuillet".

High profile scientists:
DEBARRE, Anne (H = 14, 597 citations); CNRS; DR2

Major publications (IF>7): 1 PRL; 1 NanoLett
Research activities: LAC/DSSNO issued 10 publications in reviewed journals between 2006 and 2010. Among those publications: 1 NanoLett., 1 PRL. (see 7.2 for details)

1 PhD thesis has been obtained within the same period. The new doctor currently holds a temporary position.

LAC/DSSNO team maintains several fruitful collaborations linked to its funded research projects, in particular with the "Electrons, Photons and Surfaces" group at Ecole Polytechnique and research groups in Italy and the Netherlands.

Equipments: LAC/DSSNO is mainly studying the optical properties of nano-objects, in particular metallic nanoparticles in suspension. Its equipment is thus centered on low-intensity photon counting methods:

Confocal and biphotonic microscope, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy set-up, laser scan imaging, fluorescence lifetime measurement and fluorescence spectroscopy, all at the single molecule level. Confocal Raman imaging at the single particle level associated with NIR tunable excitation. Dark field imaging