Agenda - Nanosciences

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Agenda

Biological And Chemical Sensing On Nanoparticle Based Plasmonic Interfaces

Thursday 16 Decembre 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble Understanding and tuning the optical behavior of noble metal nanoparticles has become an intensive research area over the last years due to their consideration as components of optical sensors [1]. The influence of particle parameters such as shape, size, metal composition and interparticle distance on the plasmonic behavior have been...

Material Perspectives for Phase Change Memories

Tuesday 14 Décembre 2010 at 2pm Room 222-223, Building Minatec MMNT 3 parvis Louis Néel, 38000 Grenoble This seminar takes part of the PERCEVALL project, supported by the Nanosciences Fondation since 2009. Material perspectives for phase change memories: the role of chemical composition, deposition method, and interfaces on the thermal properties of the chalcogenide material and of its interfaces. At the occasion of the visit in Grenoble of...

Engineered protein pores for nanotechnology

Friday 10 Decembre 2010 - from 11am Séminar Room of IBS Séminaire de prestige de l'IBS by Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford, UK) Abstract: A toolkit of engineered staphylococcal alpha-hemolysin pores is being engineered for applications in nanotechnology. A variety of applications is envisioned. The engineered pores can be used as nanoreactors for the examination of ...

ElecMol'10

December 6 - 10, 2010 MINATEC - Grenoble, FRANCE We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of the international and interdisciplinary meeting ElecMol’10 which will focus on recent advances in molecular and organic (opto)electronics. The 2008 edition was a great success with more than 350 international participants and an outstanding scientific program with invited lectures given by worldwide renowned personalities in different fields of molecular electronics ranging...

Pushing Silicon Photonics Beyond Silicon

Wednesday 8 December 2010 - at 2pm CEA LETI - Building 4003, Room 3212B IMPORTANT : access to CEA is protected and requires the use of a temporary pass for anyone who doesn't work in CEA [ more info ] CEA LETI Seminar by Ryan M. Briggs Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics - California Institute of Technology Contact: Roch...

2010 Thesis Prize Award Ceremony

Thursday 2 Decembre 2010 from 4pm Lecture Room M001 - Phelma Minatec 3 Parvis Louis Néel - 38000 Grenoble This year, the Foundation's thesis prize will be given to two laureates: Dimitri HOUSSAMEDDINE , from laboratory SPINTEC [ + infos ] & Nicolas ROCH , from Institut Néel [ + infos ] This ceremony will also give you...

Nano to macro: synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of nanoparticle catalysts and organic photovoltaic films

Friday 26 Novembre 2010 From 11am to noon Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble By Prof. Michael J. Gordon ( mjgordon@engineering.ucsb.edu) Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara The overarching theme of our research is to develop techniques and instruments to probe and better understand how local effects related to size, shape, composition, phase separation,...

Numerical simulation of advanced Silicon-based Photo-voltaic solar cells

Vendredi 26 Novembre 2010 - from 9am to 10am Lecture room Belledonne, IMEP, MINATEC IMEP-LAHC Exceptionnal Seminar - by Claudio FIEGNA (University of Bologna - Italy) Abstract: Numerical simulation is required for the optimization of conventional silicon-based photo-voltaic (PV) solar cells and for the development of more advanced technological options based on nano-structured materials such...

Adaptive algorithms for modeling and simulating nanosystems

Thursday 4 Novembre 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre P015 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' 23 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble Stéphane Redon leads the NANO-D research group at the INRIA Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes Research Center. The Nanosciences Foundation and INRIA have recently agreed to elaborate a partnership and this will therefore be a great opportunity to discover the research acctivities conducted in the nanosciences filed at INRIA. This talk will present our...

Resistive RAM, Nanowire TFET, Surface Plasmon Polariton: the Shifting Scenario in Computational Nanoelectronics

Tuesday 2 November 2010 from 10am to 11am PHELMA Minatec - Lecture room M001 IMEP-LAHC Exceptional Seminar - by Prof. Zhiping YU (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Abstract: To sustain the steady improvement in speed, scale, and saving of power for silicon-based ICs while the end of ITRS roadmap looms, new materials, structures, and devices (MSD) are urgently needed. This talk covers three alternative structures to complement planar CMOS...

Nanomedicine: Reality Now and Soon

23-28 October 2010 Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain ESF-UB Conference in Biomedicine The application of nanotechnology will have a major influence in many fields of medicine. Novel nano-based materials appear in drug delivery systems, diagnostics, imaging, biosensing, and medical materials and devices. This conference aims to provide detailed understanding and discuss the clinical utility of those areas of nanomedicine which are close to application or already clinically ...

Workshop on " New trends in Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopies"

Monday 18 Octobre 2010 from 9.00am to 5.00pm CNRS Seminar Room - Building A, 25 rue des martyrs 38000 Grenoble Invited speakers: Franz GIESSIBL Institut pour la Physique Expérimentale et Appliquée (Regensburg) -> « Improving spatial resolution, force resolution and ease of use in atomic force microscopy with quartz based...

Workshop on "Contact and surface effect issues in nanostructures"

Tuesday 28 Septembre 2010 from 9.00am to 12.00 PHELMA Polygone School - Lecture room P007 Nanostructures are in essence extremely sensitive to any surface effect. This can be turned to profit for some applications but can also make it difficult to control the nanostructure properties in a reliable and reproducible way. Making electrical contacts to nanostructures is essential for any electronic applications of nanostructures. However, making good contacts to nanostructures is very...

Carbon Electronics – From Material Synthesis to Circuit Demonstration

Thursday 23 Septembre 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre 15 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' (formarly called ENSERG) 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. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the first...

FUNDAMENTALS OF SINGLE SPIN PHYSICS par Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier

From 6 to 9 Septembre 2010 - from 11am to 12am Maison des Magistères (CNRS – Polygone Scientifique) Lectures at Ecole Doctorale de Physique given by Joaquin Fernandez-Rossier Professor at the University of Alicante (Spain) and Chair of Excellence of the Nanosciences Foundation Lectures 1 and 2 :Monday and Tuesday 6 et 7 septembre - Lecture room 2 "Understanding the electronic properties of a single spin in a solid state...

Quantum Phenomena in Nanostructures and Low-Dimensional Materials

9-21 August 2010 Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Windsor - United Kingdom DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5 May, 2010 Programme and online application form can be found on: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/esqn/windsor10 Please, bring attention of postdocs and PhD students in your group to the 5th International Windsor Summer School: ‘Quantum Phenomena in Nanostructures and Low-Dimensional Materials’ This meeting will address raising fundamental...

Nanostructured Organic Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Efficient Lighting

Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre 15 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' (formarly called ENSERG) Dr. Samuel Mao is a career staff scientist of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at the college of engineering of the University of California at Berkeley. Speaker's Abstract and biography Lighting represents one-fifth of the electricity consumption. The U.S. Department of Energy has set an ambitious goal to develop advanced solid-state...

MINATEC Crossroad'10 - Upstream Research

23rd-24th June 2010 MINATEC, Grenoble MINATEC Upstream research Invited speakers of the UPSTREAM Research event co-organised by FMNT, INAC and the NanoScience Foundation will provide deep insights into the role of basic research in the fields of materials and nanotechnologies. Experts from FMNT and INAC will share some of the major technical and scientific results obtained by their teams in 2009. By participating to UPSTREAM Research, you will...

" Charge transport in molecular and semiconductor nanowires “

Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre 15 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' (formarly called ENSERG) Jim Greer is Head of Electronics Theory and Head of Graduate Studies at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. Speaker's Abstract and biography Microelectronics technology has made great progress by scaling down transitor sizes. However in nanoelectronic design, there is an advantage in...

" Charge transport in molecular and semiconductor nanowires “

Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 4pm Amphitheatre 15 of the 'Ecole PHELMA Polygone' (formarly called ENSERG) Baruch Feldman is doing his first postdoctoral appointment at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. Speaker's Abstract and biography I will describe our recent applications of the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to electronic transport in two different systems. The...

Substrate Integrated Circuits (SICs) for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Systems and Applications

Wednesday 16th June 2010 from 1pm to 2pm Amphithéâtre, Bât. INP, MINATEC by Ke WU Abstract: Widespread applications and commercial success of future GHz and THz electronic and photo-nic devices and systems including RF, microwaves and millimeter-waves are closely related to their manu-facturing cost and circuit integration. Our proposed integration technologies of planar and non-planar struc-tures as well as related new progress indicate that the emerging...

Techno Forum N°2

Thursday 3 June 2010 at 9.30am Institut Neel room E424 (3eme étage BtE) T. Fournier : Etching facilities Nanofab (RIE, IBE,…) JB. Jager : Etching facilities PTA (RIE, IBE,…) S. Litaudon : Deep RIE of Si Y. Hadj-Larbi : ICP RIE, Ta pillar etching J. Claudon : Cl etching of III-V compounds G. Cunge : Etching and process at LTM G. Rosaz : SOG planarization by CMP F. Omne : Etching of diamond with ECR/O2 O. Bourgeois, T. Fournier :...

TransAlp' Nano 2010

3rd-5th June 2010 Como, Italy DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 31st March 2010 Submit now at: http://transalpnano2010.fisica.unimi.it/abstract-submission.php You are invited to participate in the Conference and to submit an abstract on any of the topics included in the scientific programme: Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Nanoelectronics Nanophotonics Applications Simulation and modeling Risk assessments and Society perception INVITED...

Nanostructured Lipid Based Materials as Potential Carrier Systems for Functional Molecules

Monday 31st May 2010 at 11am Salle des séminaires de l’IBS By Otto Glatter (Department of Chemistry, University of Graz, Austria) Host : Frank Gabel (IBS/LBM) Glycerolmonolinolein (MLO), Glycerolmonoolein (GMO), Phytantriol (PT) and a few other lipophilic molecules self-assemble in bulk in presence of water to form well defined liquid crystalline phases. Their structure can be tuned by temperature variation and/or by addition of oils. This leads to...

Superconductor-insulator transition in sub-10 nm nanowires

Friday 14th may 2010 at 11am CNRS Bât E, conference room "Louis Weil" on 3rd floor Please note that on that day, the CNRS doors will be closed. Thanks for calling on +33 (0)4 76 88 78 43 or +33 (0)4 76 12 79 in order to get in. Venkat Chandrasekhar (Northwestern University, USA) Two electrons bound in a singlet state have long provided a conceptual and pedagogical framework for understanding the nonlocal nature of...

Techno Forum N°1

Thursday 6th may 2010 at 9.30am 10.05 - Spintec Seminar room (3rd floor, 2eme étage) F. Gustavo, B. Delaup, H. Hass : general presentation and update of the PTA evaporation and sputtering material deposition facilities T. Fournier, T. Crozes, B. Fernandez : general presentation of the deposition facilities at Nanofab G. Kastaros : forming gates on the evap plassys F. Lecocq : Al tunnel junctions by shadow evap P. Laczkowski : shadow evap...

Multi scale device simulations: from organic electronics to molecular device

Jeudi 8th April 2010 from 1pm to 2pm Amphithéâtre, Bât. INP, MINATEC by Aldo Di CARLO Abstract: The advent of the organic electronics/optoelectronics and the introduction of new devices and concepts based on molecular functionalities require the development of a new class of simulators able to capture nanoscale details as well as the macroscale device contest. In this talk I will present some results of the attempt to describe these systems and devices by...

ELECTRONIC NOISE AND RELAXATION IN NANOSTRUCTURES

April 1-2, 2010 Grenoble Conference topics Relaxation in the edge states, Electron noise and relaxation in normal and superconducting nanostructures, Mesoscopic charge dynamics, Spin and phonon dynamics in nanostructures Organizers Leonid Glazman (Yale University, Chair of the Nanosciences Fondation) Frank Hekking (LPMMC, UJF and CNRS) Manuel Houzet (SPSMS/INAC, CEA) Contact: manuel.houzet@cea.fr List of invited...

GIANT EXPAT'EXPO 2010

GIANT programme partner organisations CEA, CNRS, EMBL, ESRF, ILL, GEM, Grenoble INP, Fondation Nanosciences and UJF are pleased to invite you to the first-ever special event specifically for Polygone Scientifique foreign employees and their spouses: Thursday 11 February 2010 From 5.00pm to 8.30pm At the Phelma Polygone, 23 avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble This event is a unique opportunity to discover the broad range of social,...

Réunion des Groupes Thématiques "Nanoélectronique Quantique" & "Electronique Moléculaire"

Vendredi 5 février 2010 de 9h a 11h. Salle P207 - Ecole PHELMA Polygone Olivier Buisson et Vincent Bouchiat organisent une réunion commune aux groupes thématiques Nano-électronique Quantique et Electronique Moléculaire. Elle aura pour but de préparer l' appel à projets 2010 de la Fondation Nanosciences concernant les Chaires d’Excellence. Des modifications substantielles sont à attendre par rapport aux appels d’offre précédents. En particulier il...

Réunion du Groupe Thématique "Nanocaractérisation & Nanométrologie"

Lundi 1 février 2010 de 14h a 16h. Salle P205 - Ecole PHELMA Polygone Hubert Renevier organise une réunion du groupe thématique "Nanocaractérisation et Nanométrologie" Elle aura pour but de préparer l' appel à projets 2010 de la Fondation Nanosciences concernant les Chaires d’Excellence. Des modifications substantielles sont à attendre par rapport aux appels d’offre précédents. En particulier il n'y aura pas d'Appel à Projets sans...

Réunion du Groupe Thématique "Nanomatériaux, nanobonding & nanostructuration"

Vendredi 29 janvier 2010 de 14h à 16h Salle P207 au 2ème étage de l'Ecole PHELMA - Polygone La prochaine réunion du groupe de la thématique «Nanomatériaux, Nanobonding et Nanostructuration » se tiendra le 29 Janvier 2010. Cette réunion - ouverte à tous - s'adresse à tous ceux qui souhaitent participer au processus de réflexion relatif à la définition des thématiques qui seront proposées pour les appels à candidature de Chaires d’Excellence en 2010. ...

Réunion du Groupe Thématique "Vivant aux limites de la nanoélectronique"

Mardi 26 Janvier 2010 à partir de 16h bâtiment C de chimie, 2eme étage, salle 209, 301 rue de la chimie, D.U. de Saint Martin d'Hères Pierre Labbé et Franz Brucker, les animateurs de la thématique RTRA "le vivant aux limites de la nanoelectronique" vont organiser une réunion d'information et de prospective destinée à faire le point sur l' appel d'offre 2010 , ainsi que sur la journée d'évaluation des projets soutenus par la Fondation, le 28 janvier...