Acronyme du projet/ Acronym of the project

4.1.9.2Valorisation / Exploitation of results

LCFIO/Nano has issued 6 patents during the last 5 years (full list in 7.2). 4 of them are already licensed to St Gobain, C. Doppler Labor für Oberflächenoptishe Methoden, (Linz/Austria) and ONERA. Laserlabs uses a licence from IOGS.

LCFIO/Nano issued 2 startup, GeneWave (fluorescent biochips) in 2001, which still employs 25 people including many former PhD from IOGS, and Genoptics (plasmonic imaging biochips) in 2001 absorbed by Horiba-Jobin-Yvon in 2009.

LCFIO/Nano has signed 6 contracts with private companies since 2006

For all its valorization activities, LCFIO/Nano relies on the IP pool at IOGS.

4.1.9.3Enseignement superieur / Higher education

Half of LCFIO/Nano scientists are professors or assistant professors and thus deeply involved in higher education.

• PhD level: 7 of us have the HdR and commonly act as Thesis Director. 17 PhD students received a doctorate since 2006

• Master Level: JJ Greffet created the NanoPhysics Program within the Master NanoSciences. This master is a joint program of seven universities and engineering schools in Paris Saclay area. Nicolas Dubreuil is head of the master program on optics within the Master "Optics, Matter, Plasmas". Other LCFIO/Nano scientists are currently teaching at Master level both nanophotonics and optics classes as well as lab classes on optical fibre optics, optical telecommunications and plasmonic sensors. Let us mention a joint program with University Paris Sud, Ecole Centrale Paris and Institut Gustave Roussy on “Ingéniérie des données de la recherche médicale et biotechnologique”.

• UnderGrad level: All our professors and assistant professors are regularly teaching at IOGS

• Nano events:

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  A lab class on surface plasmons interferences has been developed
  
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  F. Marquier is in charge of YEP, young enterprise program, a training program aiming at developping the entreprenarial among first year students.
  
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  Gilles Pauliat was deeply involved in the setup of the exhibition "The world in colors": from Gabriel Lippmann to nanophotonics » which was proposed at Palais de la découverte in Paris (june 2009-may 2010)
  

F. Marquier and JJ Greffet gave seminars on Nanoscience to high-school physics teachers.

4.1.9.4Organisation / Organisation

LCFIO/Nano is a consortium from LCFIO, the research centre from IOGS. As such it benefits from all shared facilities brought by the IOGS, together with a continuous flow of very well trained students. For funding, all teams rely on science proposals to local, national and international agencies. All teams from LCFIO/Nano have been very successful since 2006 with 9 contracts with ANR, 6 with the CnanoIdF, 3 with the RTRA, 5 EU contracts. CNRS-IOGS is the french representative as core partner in the FP7 Network of excellence in Biophotonics, Photonics for Life P4L.

4.1.10Partenaire 10/ Partner 10 : Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thales (UMPhys) UMR137

4.1.10.1Recherche et innovation / Research and innovation

The joint CNRS/Thales Physics lab “Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales” (UMPhys) was created in 1995 after a decade of collaboration between Thomson-CSF (Thales since 2000) and Albert Fert’s research team at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Orsay. UMPhys is formally associated to Univ. Paris Sud since 2000. In the framework of this collaboration, the discovery of the Giant Magnetoresistance effect in 1988 pioneered the field of spintronics and was acknowledged by the award of the 2007 Physics Nobel Prize to Albert Fert. Since then, the research in spintronics carried out at UMPhys led to numerous breakthroughs on experimental as well as theoretical sides, notably in the study of the spin-polarized tunneling effect, spin-transfer torque phenomena, spin-injection or magneto-Coulomb effects. Although spintronics can be considered as the historical heart of research at UMPhys, strong research activities have been developed in the last decade in the fields of high-Tc superconductors and signal processing as well as functional oxides. The team involved in the project is the "Spintronics and Functional Oxides" (UMPhys/Spintro) team. UMPhys/Spintro gathers 13 researchers (9 from CNRS and 4 from Universities), 4 CNRS research engineers, 9 PhD students and 6 postdoctoral fellows.

Evaluation: UMPhys/Spintro was evaluated by AERES in 2010. Joint CNRS/Industry labs are evaluated by the AERES but do not receive a grade. From the report, one can see that the grade should undoubtedly be A+

Excerpt of the report: Laboratoire mixte entre le milieu académique et un partenaire industriel, l'Unité de physique CNRS-Thales réussit un équilibre remarquable entre recherche fondamentale de haut niveau et prise en compte des aspects applicatifs. Sur sa thématique historique de la Spintronique, l'unité est à l'avant-garde de la communauté internationale sur les sujets de recherche les plus actuels : couple de transfert de spin et effets magnéto-Coulomb. L'activité sur les oxydes fonctionnels, plus récemment développée, connait de grands succès dans l'étude de matériaux de propriétés multiferroïques.
High profile scientists:
ANANE Abdelmadjid (H = 13, >950 citations); U. Paris XI, Assistant Pr

Major publications (IF>7): 2 PRL

Other assessment points: PEDR, past and present member of several commissions of U. Paris XI, scientific advisor for the exhibition "A la rencontre des prix Nobel", co-organizer of a 3 months exhibition "La spintronique, un nano-monde dans nos ordinateurs" at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris.
BARTHELEMY, Agnès (H = 33, >3000 citations); U. Paris XI; Pr 1^st class

Distinctions: Louis Ancel Prize of the French Physical Society (2008); CNRS Silver Medal (2010)

Major publications (IF>7): 2 Science, 1 Nature; 2 Nature Materials,>10 PRL

Other assessment points: Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France; ERC Advanced Grant (2010)
BIBES, Manuel (H = 28, >2300 citations); CNRS, CR1

Major publications (IF>7): 2 Science, 1 Nature; 2 Nature Materials,11 PRL

Other assessment points: >350 cit/year since 2007
CROS, Vincent (H = 22, >1700 citations); CNRS, DR2

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Nature Comm., 1 Nature Nanotech., 1 Nature Physics, 4 PRL
FERT, Albert (H = 58, >17000 citations); U. Paris XI, Pr Emeritus

Distinctions: 2007 Physics Nobel Prize; CNRS Gold Medal 2003

Major publications (IF>7): 3 Nature Phys., 1 Nature Comm.,1 Nature, 5 PRL (recent publications only)

Other assessment points: Member of the French Academy of Sciences
GEORGE, Jean-Marie (H = 23, >2200 citations); CNRS, DR2

Major publications (IF>7): 8 PRL
GROLLIER, Julie (H = 13, >1030 citations); CNRS, CR1

Distinctions: Jacques Herbrand Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2010)

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Nature Comm., 1 Nature Nanotech., 1 Nature Physics, 3 PRL

Other assessment points: ERC Starting Grant (2010)
JAFFRES, Henri (H = 17, >1450 citations); CNRS, CR1

Major publications (IF>7): 9 PRL

Other assessment points: 2 articles>300 cit
MATTANA, Richard (H = 12, >600 citations); CNRS, CR1

Major publications (IF>7): 1 Nature Physics,1 Nature Mat., 4 PRL
PETROFF, Frédéric (H = 29, >7500 citations); CNRS DR2, deputy director UMPhys

Major publications (IF>7): 3 Nature Physics, 9 PRL

Other assessment points : >400 cit/year. Member of National Committee of CNRS. Member and president of proposal review committees of synchrotron facilities (LURE, ESRF, SOLEIL). Member of the boards of Cnano Ile de France and RTRA Triangle de la Physique.
SENEOR, Pierre (H = 11, >850 citations); U. Paris XI, Assistant Pr

Major publications (IF>7): 2 Nature Physics,1 Science; 3 PRL, 1 Nanoletters

Other assessment points: Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France
Research activities: UMPhys/Spintro issued 140 publications in reviewed journals between 2006 and 2010, together with 5 patents. Among those publications: 1 Science, 1 Nature, 3 Nature Phys., 3 Nature Mater., 1 Nature NanoTech., 1 Nature Comm., 5 PRL. (see 7.2 for details)

15 PhD theses have been obtained within the same period. Among them, 12 new doctors already hold a permanent position and 3 hold a temporary position. 11 PhD theses are still under way. 1 HdR was obtained during that period at UMPhys/Spintro.

Scientists from UMPhys/Spintro gave more than 200 invited lectures during the last 5 years, more than 90% at international conferences. (A partial list is given in 7.2)

UMPhys/Spintro have numerous internal and external collaborations (12 current collaborations within the Campus Paris-Saclay within distinct laboratories, many of them members of the NanoSaclay LabEx, ca. 15 collaborations with research French labs and more than 20 international active collaborations)

Equipments:

Sputtering and pulsed laser deposition tools; magneto-transport measurements (DC and HF); magnetometry (SQUID and AGFM); optical lithography tools; near field microscopies

UMPhys/Spintro is associated (2nd circle) to the following Equipex projects: Tempos, Stras, Ultrabasbruit.