Nanophotonics - Nanoelectronics

Congratulations to Aaron for a very successful PhD defense on metal vapour deposition and the competition between nucleation and surface diffusion on different organic and inorganic surfaces.

Update from our team: Amira Becheikh successfully completed her MSc and joined our team as PhD student under the co-supervision of Prof. Latifa Bergaoui from INSAT, Tunis. Nils Dietrich joined our group as PhD student after the successful completion of his MSc double degree with Munich University of Applied Sciences. We are delighted to have Lucie Dewyspelaere with us as part of her double degree PhD with Toulon University under the supervision of Prof. Alexandre Merlen. And, last but not least, Dr. David Barba joined us a research associate to reinforce all aspects of the team from research to collaborations.

Congratulations to Dr. Canan Boynukara, who successfully defended her PhD on how to quantify the cleaning progress by NIR fs-pulse laser in the use for cultural heritage. It was a fun collaboration with Prof. Patrizio Antici from INRS.

Visit of Prof. Latifa Bergaoui from INSAT, Tunisia at INRS in the framework of our joined project on photocatalysis. Prof. Bergaoui presented her research activities "Impact of δ-MnO2 on the chemical speciation of cations in aqueous solution " in our institute's seminar.

Congratulations to Amira Becheikh for the 2nd prize in the 2025 edition of the INRS-EMT MSc seminars.

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SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - MATECSS Excellence Scholarship Program Inviting applications from outstanding students for the MATECSS PhD Excellence Scholarship 2025. The UNESCO Chair MATECSS promotes […]

Our team (Lilian and Aaron missing) at the Christmas party of INRS.

This week in "Le Devoir": Amira Becheikh gave an interview about her MSc project on the photocatalytic degradation of pollutants with polar nanoparticles (in French).

https://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/821858/solution-eaux-polluees-invisible-oeil-nu?

Une solution aux eaux polluées invisible à l’oeil nu? Une étudiante à l’INRS manipule les propriétés de l’infiniment petit pour développer un remède à la pollution de l’eau.

Daniel's second publication is out as open access with participation from Aaron and Andreas Dörfler. This one is about how to translate TEM images into useful shape information of metal nanoparticles to extract their plasmonic properties.

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Congratulations to Dr. Maria Dekermenjian. She received the outstanding student publication award from RSC Advances in the category Physical Chemistry. This is a beautiful example of collaboration with Prof. Alexandre Merlen from Toulon, who co-supervised Maria.

Raman spectroscopy investigation of magnesium oxide nanoparticles We investigate Raman spectra (100 cm−1 to 3900 cm−1) of magnesium oxide nanoparticles with nominal sizes of 10 nm, 20 nm, 40 nm, 50 nm, and 300 nm. The crystal structure of MgO prohibits first-order modes and yet, there are numerous reports of relatively intense peaks throughout the literature. ...

Congratulations to Mohammad Bakhtbidar! His work on the direction detection of carbonate monolayers on dielectric surfaces is now available as open access through Wiley Advanced Materials Interfaces. Thanks to all co-authors!

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Congratulations to Sebastian Obernberger from our team who won the first prize of the 2024 edition of the Master thesis presentations of INRS-EMT. Great publicity for our new double degree program with Munich University of Applied Sciences.