The Foundation's Seminars
Nanowire generators for self-powered system and piezotronics for active smart flexible-electronics
Wednesday 1 February 2011 at 10.30am Room Rémy Lemaire K223 - Building K - Institut Néel 25 rue des martyrs - 38000 Grenoble Dr. Zhong Lin (ZL) WANG now is the Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering, Regents' Professor, Engineering Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization, at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wang has made original and innovative contributions to the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of...
[Read More]Spin parity effects in atomic scale spintronics
Thursday 12 January 2011 at 2pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone ' 23 rue des martyrs - 38000 Grenoble Joaquín Fernández-Rossier holds both a Diploma (1994) and a Phd (1999) on Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He spend 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Physics Department of the University of California San Diego and 18 months at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin. In 2003 he obtained a Ramon y Cajal assistant...
[Read More]Local Structure, X-ray Absorption and Localization Properties of GST and GeTe-based Phase Change Materials : an Ab Initio Simulation Approach
Thursday 17 Novembre 2011 at 4pm Amphitheatre M001 - Phelma MINATEC 3 parvis Louis Neel - 38000 GRENOBLE By Jean-Yves RATY , University of Liege (Belgium) In the recent years, Ab Initio Density Functional Theory calculations have proven to be extremely useful in the production of structural models helping to interpret the output of many experiments, such as diffraction, x-ray absorption as well as other kind of spectroscopies. In this...
[Read More]Two Types of Photoluminescence Blinking Revealed by Single Quantum Dot Spectroelectrochemistry
Monday 10 october 2011 - at 2.30pm Room "Nevill Mott" (D420) - 3rd floor Building D - Institut Néel 25 rue des martyrs, 38000 Grenoble by Christophe GALLAND , Chemistry Division Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory Abstract: Photoluminescence (PL)...
[Read More]Nanoelectronic Devices and Integrations on Silicon Platform - Today and Tomorrow
Friday 23 September 2011 at 12.30pm Amphi Maison MINATEC 3 parvis Louis Néel - 38000 Grenoble By Yoshio NISHI , Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University Nanosciences Foundation Chair of Excellence There is widely shared concern today that as we approach future technology nodes of CMOS beyond sub-20nm, diminishing return in device performance and density combined with...
[Read More]Low-Resistance Electrical Contact to Carbon Nanotubes with Graphitic Interfacial Layer
Wednesday 21 Septembre 2011 at 4pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone ' 23 rue des martyrs - 38000 Grenoble Philip Wong is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and holds a Chair of Excellence at the Nanosciences Foundation since 2007. His seminar will be an excellent opportunity to know more about his research interests and his scientific projects and interactions in Grenoble. Download the slides - part...
[Read More]Chemical Functionalizationas an Approach to the Modification of the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Graphene
Wednesday 15 June 2011 at 11am Leture room - building A - CNRS, 25 rue des martyrs - Grenoble By Robert C. HADDON , Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering - University of California at Riverside part 1 part 2 We have demonstrated the functionalization of epitaxial graphene with nitrophenyl groups. The chemical formation of covalent carbon-carbon bonds involving the basal plane carbon atoms offers an alternative...
[Read More]Electronic structural instabilities and information storage in Phase Change Materials.
Monday 18 April 2011 at 4pm Amphitheatre P005 of the 'Ecole Grenoble INP-PHELMA , Site Polygone ' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble By Jean pierre GASPARD , University of Liege (Belgium) Information storage requires that the relevant material exists in two states with a contrast in his physical properties (e. g. optical or electrical contrast). We analyse the fundamental mechanisms that drive the structural transitions in Phase Change Materials...
[Read More]Geochemistry at the nanoscale: chemistry of fluid-mineral interfaces, phytoremediation, and nanotoxocology
Thursday 31 March 2011 at 4pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble By Roland HELLMANN, Géraldine SARRET et Laurent CHARLET , Institute for Earth Sciences (ISTerre) & Observatory for Earth and Planetary Sciences Grenoble Roland HELLMANN's slides Géraldine SARRET's slides Laurent CHARLET's slides Chemical weathering reactions of rocks at Earth’s surface play a major role in the...
[Read More]Electronic conductivity of nanotubes and graphene from quantum simulations
Thursday 27 January 2011 at 4pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble ByXavier Blase , Institut Néel Despite the astonishing progresses in our ability to probe experimentally condensed matter systems at the nanometer and femtosecond space and time scales, it remains that probing the atomic and electronic processes in nanosized systems remains a challenge for experiment. In this context, computer simulations...
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