Laboratoire de Physique de la matière condensée
Site en françaisLaboratoire mixte de l'Ecole Polytechnique et du CNRS (UMR 7643)
This english web site is under construction. While some parts have a complete english version, some are only available in french yet. Here follows a list of the pages available in english:
- The chemistry group web site here
- The description of the research activities of the EPS group here
- A very incomplete description of the research activities of the irregularity group here
- Most post-doc and some PhD proposals
Research activities within the condensed matter physics laboratory can be grouped into one of two categories : nanosciences or physics of irregular systems. Original approaches to outstanding scientific and technical problems in these areas are developed via a combination of in-house experimental and numerical techniques, along with interdisciplinary research teams made up of both physicists and chemists. While the work of the laboratory is aimed at addressing fundamental scientific problems, several collaborations with industrial partners are maintained. Consequently a good fraction of our Ph.D. students go on to find work in the private sector.
The laboratory is split into four research groups:
- The solid state chemistry group synthesises and characterises the physical properties of materials with high surface-to-volume ratios.
- The thin film and electrochemistry group use scanning probe techniques to characterize and modify materials electrochemically at the nanoscale.
- The electrons, photons, surfaces group studies the transport and spectroscopy of spin polarized electrons in solids.
- The irregular systems group conducts experimental and theoretical studies of materials and objects with irregular or complex geometries.