Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

NANOSTAR / RTRA project
PhD students: Bharathi NATARAJAN, Omid FAIZY NAMARAVAR
Oral presentations and Posters
"Behaviour of Conical Intersections within Noncollinear" "Spin-Flip Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory:
Oxirane as Test Case Conical Intersections and Photochemistry"
Bhaarathi Natarajan, Miquel Huix-Rotllant, Andrei Ipatov, C. Muhavini Wawire, Thierry Deutsch, and Mark E. Casida,
DFT09 International Conference(2009), Lyon, August 31 – September 4
Bhaarathi Natarajan has been invited to present a talk on the state of achievements of her PhD work at the Psi-k
conference in Berlin
Publications
"Assessment of noncollinear spin-ip Tamm{Danco_ ap-proximation time-dependent density-functional theory for
the photochemical ring-opening of oxirane",
Mark Casida, Thierry DeutschPhys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 12, 12811 (2010).
"Ab initio high-energy excitonic e_ects in graphite and grapheme"
P. E. Trevisanutto, M. Holzmann, M. Cote and V.Olevano, Phys.Rev. B Rapid Comm., 81, 121405 (2010).
"Improving the theoretical ability to predict experimental spectra by interpolation tech-niques"
H.C. Weissker, R. Hambach, V. Olevano and L. Reining, Phys. Rev. B 79, 094102 (2009).
"Substrate-enhanced supercooling in AuSi eutectic droplets"
T.U. Schulli, R. Daudin, G. Renaud, A. Vaysset, O. Geaymond and A. Pasturel, Nature, 464, 1174 (2010)
"Quantum Transport Properties of ChemicallyFunctionalized Long Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes"
A. Lopez-Bezanilla, X. Blase X, S. Roche, 3, 288(2010);
"Chemically Induced Mobility Gaps in Graphene Nanoribbons: A Route for Upscaling Device Performances"
B. Biel, F. Triozon, X. Blase and S. Roche, Nanoletters 9, 2725 (2009)
"Electronic transport through graphene constrictions: subwavelength regime and optical analogy"
P. Darancet, V. Olevano, and D. Mayou, Coherent , Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 102, 136803, 2009
Neuro FETs /RTRA project
Post-doctoral fellow: Libertad ABAD MUNOZ
PART 3
Communications
"Achieving in vitro axonal polarization by using micropatterns",
S. Roth, J. Brocard, S. Gory- Faur´e, C.Villard, APS March meeting, mars 2009, Pittsburg, USA
"Neurones sur motifs d’adhésion : vers un contrôle de la polarisation axonale",
S. Roth, J.Brocard, G.Bugnicourt, S.Gory-Fauré, et C.Villard. SFP Conference, July 2009, Palaiseau.
Publication in preparation
" Shaping neurons : how morphology controls polarity"
Roth, S., Brocard, J., M. Bisbal, Bugnicourt, G., Saoudi, Y.,Andrieux, A., Gory-Faur´e, S. and Villard, C.
POMME / RTRA project
Post-doctoral Fellows: Alexey DOBRYNIN and Anne BERNAND-MANTEL
Invitation to talk at conference
“ Toward electric field control of magnetization in a metallic nanostructure”
ISAMMA 2010, July 2010, Sendai, Japan
Poster
“Effets de charge dans les métaux ferromagnétiques : vers un contrôle électrique de l’aimantation” Colloque
Louis Néel 2010, march 2010, Albé, France
A DC-to-THz cryogenic platform for new generation of nano-detectors / New Incoming project
Alexandro MONFARDINI
Post-doctoral fellow: Loren SWENSON
Publications
"In situ measurement of the permittivity of helium using microwave NbN resonators"
G. J. Grabovskij, L. J. Swenson, O. Buisson, C. Hoffmann, A. Monfardini, and J.-C. Villégier, Applied Physics Letters 93,
134102 (2008)
"Kinetic inductance detectors development for MM-wave astronomy"
A. Monfardini, L. J. Swenson, A. Benoit, A. Bideau, G. Bres, P.Camus, G. Garde, C. Hoffmann, J. Minet, H. Rodenas and
the NIKA collaboration, EAS Publications Series, 2009
"A Fast, Ultra-Sensitive and Scalable Detection Platform Based on Superconducting Resonators for Fundamental
Condensed-Matter and Astronomical Measurements"
L. J. Swenson, J. Minet, G. J. Grabovskij, O. Buisson, F. Lecocq, C.Hoffmann, P. Camus, J.C. Villégier, S. Doyle, P.
Mauskopf, M. Roesch, M.Calvo, C. Giordano, S.J.C. Yates, A.M. Baryshev,Y, J.J.A. Baselmans, A.Benoit , A. Monfardini, in
Proc. 13th Int.Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD-13), AIP Conf. Proc. 1185, 84 (2009).
"Readout for large arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors using a Fast Fourier Transform
Spectrometer"
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