Contact
Charlotte Tripon Canseliet
charlotte.tripon-canseliet@espci.fr
ESPCI is a leading French “Grande Ecole” founded in 1882, educating undergraduate and graduate students through a programme merging basic science and engineering, as well as a world-renowned research institution. ESPCI Paris has setup a tradition of excellence in research, with distinguished faculty that have contributed to its history, such as Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Georges Charpak. The five Nobel laureates in this list are emblematic of the exceptional ethos embodied in the permanent culture of excellence at ESPCI Paris.
ESPCI Paris hosts 9 research units, all associated to CNRS and/or INSERM and/or other Parisian Universities in the form of joined research units, covering the fields of physics, chemistry and biology. Favouring interdisciplinary, and operating at the frontiers between fundamental research and innovation, are two major objectives of ESPCI Paris. This is achieved through a flexible organisation (without departments) that ensures a cross fertilization between scientific disciplines, as well as a direct connection between basic science and applications. One of ESPCI’s distinctive features is that it carries out fundamental research into areas of major interest to industry, while developing various approaches to practical industrial problems through the deep, fundamental understanding of the mechanisms at play. Performing fundamental research while keeping an eye on applications enables ESPCI research scientists to make an impact at multiple levels.
Scientists at ESPCI Paris publish more than one scientific paper a day, and at the same time apply for one patent a week and create several technology-driven start-ups every year – over the last 10 years.
ESPCI has a long experience in the management of European projects. With a large place for collective guidance as part of the management inside the consortium, the organisation will provide a strong administrative support to such projects, with dedicated staff on financial, legal, and administrative issues.
ESPCI is also a part of Paris Science et Lettres (PSL) Research University (https://www.univ-psl.fr/en) – an ambitious collaboration project of 26 research institutions in a broad range of disciplines from engineering, chemistry and oncology to economics, management, the humanities and the performing arts.
The Physics and Materials Study Laboratory (LPEM) is a joint research unit of ESPCI, CNRS and UPMC (UMR8213). The lab brings together 67 people, including 33 researchers and teachers, 7 engineers, administrative and technical staff and 22 PhD students and postdocs. Its research activities are divided along three groups such as Nanophysics/Nanostructures and Nanomaterials, Low dimensionality and strongly correlated electronic systems and Instrumentation. The duality between fundamental physics and applied research is a feature of the instrumentation group, involved in RF-ATTOM. The constant interplay between these two types of activities are the source of much of the current results and developments. The instrument cluster of LPEM fortunate to be at the intersection of various fields covering a large electromagnetic spectrum, in strong development prospects from basic research to applications. The developed concepts are to deliver significant progress systems complete measures. Given the practical implications of this work, the group has an active policy of promotion by numerous patents. This research group is currently conducting research in several key areas such as in electrical properties of solids, optical imaging, sensors and instrumentation, Telecommunications and NMR. To accomplish all of this research, the group of instrumentation LPEM has powerful equipment in microwave and telecommunications, infrared optics, electromagnetic and analytic simulation tools, dielectric characterization, and cryogenics.
In the framework of NANOSMART, LPEM is leading a strong research activity on multiscale homemade electromagnetic modelling/design, and experimental demonstration of RF functions based on technological breakthroughs at material and device levels. The expertise gained in terms of development of microwave design tools implementing models of nonlinear physical phenomena directly integrated into software microwave circuit simulations and in terms of characterization probing ultrafast sub-picosecond optical-microwave is extended to the development of tools for modeling and multiphysics/multiscale and high frequency characterization. With these tools, a behavioural analysis of new materials such as 1D/2D carbon-based nanomaterials (SWCNT and graphene) and nanostructured III-V semiconductor materials (photonic crystals, nanowires) providing extraordinary electronic behavior exalted by the unusual physical phenomena (ballistic transport plasmonics, sub-wavelength radiation) is targeted in a large frequency range from microwaves to Terahertz through development of new modelling tools and measurement procedures. Today also, this activity is also moving towards defining new architectures based on reconfigurable microwave interfaces.
Resources:
Microwave experimental equipment
- Fixed and portable Cascade Microtech probe test tables with multiple RF and lightwave probe access
- 67 GHz 4-ports Rhode & Schwarz Vector Network Analyser with pulse measurement capabilities up to 40 GHz
- Rohde&Schwarz FSM/FSU Spectrum analysers with operating frequency up to 26.5 GHz
- Solartron SI 1260 impedance meter
- Large Anechoic chamber (2x2x4m3) with operating frequency up to 70 GHz
Commercial software tools
- 3D FEM and FDTD electromagnetic softwares (Ansys – HFSS, CST Microwave studio)
- Microwave circuit softwares (Agilent-ADS)
Multiphysics (COMSOL)
Role in NanoSmart:
ESPCI will focus on:
- Design and charactyerization of Vertically aligned CNT nano antenna
- Parametric mesoscopic modelling of VA MWCNT-based bundles from electromagnetic properties (ε, σ, μ).
- Design of microwave VA MWCNT-based antennas and antenna arrays
- Electromagnetic properties experimental extraction of VA-MWCNT layers from dedicated tests beds structures in a wide frequency band. (DC-67/110 GHz).
VA MWCNT-based antennas and antenna arrays microwave characterization in probe test environment (DC-67/110 GHz).
Key personnel:
Dr Charlotte TRIPON-CANSELIET (female) received the M.S.E.E. degree in fundamental physics and optics and materials from the University of Rennes I and Paris Denis Diderot in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in 2003 within Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris. Since 2003, she has been working on the evolution of devices in RF domain and technologies at national and international level, as postdoctoral research scientist, and now as Associate Professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University since 2007 in cooperation with Thales Airborne Systems. Her expertise concerns the elaboration of homemade models of light/matter interactions with interface with design of RF integrated devices associated to RF integrated devices characterizations competences in the Instrumentation group at LPEM. Her motivations are focused today to the investigation of submicronic technological breakthroughs and extreme –scale electromagnetics in order to foster State-of-the-Art microwave photonics devices to excellence level and to concretize technological transfert to industry. By the way of her involvement in national and international collaborations, innovative solutions for next generation of RF devices can be suggested by recent technologies development such as nanotechnologies. Moreover, A/P Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet has a specific expertise as coordinator of some national projects in France funded by the French Ministry of Research and French MOD (DGA) and the French National Agency of Research (ANR), and as participant of European and bi-lateral international projects.
Dr. Ivan Maksimovic (male) received his PhD diploma in Physics of the university Denis Diderot since 2005. After two years as attached temporary of education and research, at the university Denis Diderot then at the ENS CACHAN, he was involed in optical instrumentation at Paris Observatory then at ESPCI where he affected(allocated) in 2008 as CNRS research engineer. In the LPEM, its research works concern the development of new instruments for the study of the physical properties of materials and their applications. He finalized in particular an experimental campaign for recording spectres of unique nanoparticles at room temperature or under cold conditions with a resolution of 0.04 nm for times of integration of the order of the minute. In partnership with the DGA, Thalès and the IEMN, he is developping since 2014 dedicated instruments for the characterization of new nano-devices working at microwave frequencies jointly with Dr Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet. He also collaborates with the LAL in Orsay on the control and the characterization of the R&D platform of the detector of gravitational waves Virgo. It is about a non-conventional instrument because it is a question of controlling an optical cavity suspended by high sharpness by mastering the absolute movement of several mirrors suspended under vacuum at micrometer scale precision and at relative movement accuracy of picometer scale. He is a co-author of 70 articles in international magazines.