Activity Report 2010 - CNRS
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Appendix 5: 2009 Call for Proposals funded projects<br />
Chairs of Excellence support<br />
Major topic Action Title & Description<br />
Super Nano Charac<br />
Partners<br />
1 2 3<br />
Financial<br />
support<br />
(k€)<br />
Nano -<br />
characterisation<br />
Part<br />
Time<br />
Chair<br />
John R. KIRTLEY, one of the world’s<br />
leading experts on Josephson junction<br />
devices and superconductivity, will join this<br />
project aimed at the study of the physical<br />
properties of high quality superconducting<br />
films and their integration into quantum<br />
nano-devices.<br />
Epitaxial superconducting films will be grown<br />
by MBE and characterized at the nanoscale<br />
at room temperature as well as at very low<br />
temperature. The epitaxial trilayers will be<br />
patterned into phase qubits. Novel<br />
nanoSQUID microscopy techniques will be<br />
employed to image the high quality circuits.<br />
Institut<br />
Néel<br />
SIMAP<br />
INAC/<br />
SPSMS<br />
350<br />
II-VI Photovoltaics<br />
Nanophotonics<br />
Part<br />
Time<br />
Chair<br />
Yong ZHANG is an expert in both optical<br />
spectroscopy and electronic structure<br />
computation, and is involved in<br />
optoelectronic applications of materials<br />
(e.g.,solar cell, solid state lighting,<br />
thermoelectrics).<br />
The goal of the project is to validate and<br />
combine new ideas for solar cells along<br />
three axis: 1/Type II band alignment at the<br />
interfaces, 2/1D architecture, using arrays<br />
of II-VI wires, 3/Direct band gap II-VI<br />
semiconductors. It will be done by exploring<br />
a new class of photovoltaic cells, based on<br />
core/shell nanowires architecture with type<br />
II band alignment such as ZnO/CdTe and<br />
ZnTe/CdSe.<br />
Institut<br />
Néel<br />
Léti LTM 300<br />
SUPPLEMENTS<br />
MUSCADE<br />
Nanosimulation<br />
Part<br />
Time<br />
Chair<br />
The core of this project is the true<br />
integration of Professor Normand<br />
MOUSSEAU from the University of Montréal<br />
into a local organization regrouping both<br />
physicists and computer scientists and<br />
working on condensed matter and<br />
nanostructures.<br />
Through the study of three prototype<br />
systems motivated by the experimental<br />
community, multiscale simulations are<br />
expected to advance our fundamental<br />
understanding of the key issues governing<br />
the formation and stability of<br />
semiconducting quantum dots, silicon<br />
nanowires and graphene sheets.<br />
INAC/<br />
SP2M<br />
SIMAP<br />
&<br />
Institut<br />
Néel<br />
LIG<br />
&<br />
Léti<br />
280<br />
TOTAL (k€) 930<br />
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