The Institut Jean Lamour (IJL) is a fundamental and applied research laboratory in material science. It is a joint unit (UMR 7198) of the CNRS and Université de Lorraine and it is attached to the CNRS Institute of Chemistry.
It is a multi-thematic laboratory covering materials, metallurgy, nanosciences, plasmas, surfaces and electronics in response to societal challenges such as energy, environment, the industry of the future, mobility, the preservation of resources and health.
Its research work ranges from the design of materials to their industrial applications.
Its research work is carried out by 25 groups organized into 4 scientific departments and a technological research team.
It is supported by 8 technical platforms and 4 support services.
The IJL is based in Nancy, on the Artem campus. Based on its expertise in the field of nano-sciences, the Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics group develops and characterizes new materials with functional properties. The guiding principle is the understanding and control of the correlation between physical properties and structure of materials, mainly at the nanometric scale. The researchers mainly look for optical emission properties induced by optical excitation, non-polarized electrical injection or spin-polarized electrical injection.
The materials studied by the group are semiconductors, particularly nanocrystals, 2D materials, and ferromagnetic layers for spin injection in semiconductors.
