Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

consortium (Nanosciences Foundation,
Région Rhône-Alpes, ICMG, CPER), this
new apparatus has only been opened to
scientific community lately.
SCIENTIFIC REPORT
Year
2007-
2009
2010 2011
Equipment
Nanofabrication 1425 350 -
Bio & Chemistry 660 - -
Characterization 1740 200 -
Simulation 135 - -
Operating costs
Fabrication 850 230 200
Bio & Chemistry 32 - -
Characterization - - -
Simulation - - -
Tab. 1: The Nanosciences Foundation support
for the equipment and the running costs of its
network facilities
CONCLUSIONS
After 5 years, the “network of
technological facilities” offers to the
community of nanosciences and
nanotechnologies a large panel of top
level equipments operated by very highly
skilled research and technical staff. The
initial choice of the Foundation to support
financially a limited number of selected
facilities, has been essential, first in the
creation and then in the operation of the
network.
A true coherency now exists between the
facilities which are prompted to build
collaborative projects. Gaps in
technologies have been filled up
essentially in nanofabrication tools and
processes, with a substantial support of
the Foundation in a restricted number of
equipments.
Finally, the positive effect of networking
has been the spreading out of the
“culture” of technology in the community.
This is shown by the increasing number
of projects (research projects, Ph.D.
thesis, Chairs of Excellence) which rely
on micro and nanodevices built and
characterized in the facilities of the
network. Therefore it seems important,
for the short and long term future, that
the Foundation maintains a high level of
involvement in the technological facilities.
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