The Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (C2N) is a joint research unit between the CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay. It was founded on the 1stJune 2016 by merging two former laboratories, the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN) and the Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale (IEF). In 2018, the laboratory moved to a new building at the heart of Campus Paris-Saclay, in the south of Paris.
The creation of C2N on the Plateau de Saclay was done within an ambitious perspective. The laboratory benefits from its very favorable location for exchanges with academic laboratories and with the R&D of the local industrial cluster. It brings together the former teams of the IEF and the LPN and gathers critical forces on key lines of research. It meets two principal and inseparable objectives:
- To establish a flagship laboratory for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology
- To provide a large technology facility to the Plateau de Saclay and the Ile-de-France region, open to all academic and industrial players in the field, especially those from the Paris region
The center develops research in the field of material science, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nanobiotechnologies and microsystems, as well as in nanotechnologies. In all these fields, its research activites cover all the range from fondamental to applied science. The laboratory is organized around 4 scientific departments:
the Photonics Department,
the Materials Department,
the Nanoelectronics Department, and
the Microsystems and Nanobiofluidics Department.
Its strong instrumentation activity makes C2N a world-class player in the development of new instruments for nanotechnology. With these instruments, nano-objects are realized, analyzed and measured with ultimate control and spatio-temporal resolutions. These instruments are also developed and commercialized in partnership with leading equipment manufacturers.
https://www.c2n.universite-paris-saclay.fr/en/laboratory/presentation/
Isabelle Sagnes
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Grégoire Beaudoin
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