The Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé (condensed matter laboratory) (SPEC) is an unit of the Institut Rayonnement Matière de Scalay (IRAMIS) which belongs to the Commissariat for Atomic Energy (CEA), a national organization which aims at bridging the gap between fundamental research and applications. The SPEC has about 200 staff members (half researchers, half students and postdocs) working in the fields of Nanoelectronics, Quantronics, Spintronics, Nanophotonics, Surface Physics and imaging, Cryogenics, Complex Systems and Out of Equilibrium Physics, Theory and modelling. The SPEC is connected to the University Paris-Saclay and many of researchers have the habilitation to supervise PhD students.
Key people on the project
Christian GLATTLI, PI of CEA-Saclay, is a Research Director at CEA Saclay France. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure ENS Cachan and obtained his PhD degree from Orsay Paris-Sud University in 1986. He joined the CEA, Saclay in 1986 where he developed novel techniques for noise measurements in solids.
He made significant contributions to the field of mesoscopic physics such as the experimental observation of fractional charge carriers, development of the first coherent single-electron source as well as the recent realization of a leviton source. He received several prestigious science awards, among which the Ancel Prize (1997), CNRS silver medal (1998) and EuroPhysics Prize (1999).
Preden ROULLEAU, PI of CEA-Saclay, is the Head of the Nanoelectronic Group. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure in 2005 and obtained his PhD degree from CEA in 2008. After a postdoc at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Zurich, he joined the CEA, Saclay in 2011. Preden has authored more than 40 publications and been awarded the ERC starting grant « Cohegraph ».
Members
- Christian GLATTLI (PI)
- Preden ROULLEAU (PI)
- Jayshankar NATH (postdoctoral researcher)
- Imen TAKTAK (PhD student)