Applied Physics (PA)
Coordinator : Benoit JOUAULT
⚛️ The Applied Physics Division conducts research focused on applications while maintaining a close connection with studies of fundamental physics.
The research activities are organized around three complementary themes:
🧩 Innovative Materials: From Growth to Physics
This theme focuses on the growth and characterization of advanced materials — graphene, CIGS, wide-bandgap semiconductors, hybrid organic–inorganic materials, oxide glasses, and ultra-porous materials — with the dual aim of understanding their fundamental properties and developing new devices.
🌱 Physics for the Environment and Health
This theme brings together research addressing environmental and health-related challenges, including:
- solar energy conversion and pollutant detection
- development of instruments for agroecology
- bioactive glasses for bone repair
- design of micro- and optofluidic devices for chemical and biomolecular analysis
⚡ Quantum Transport and Terahertz Spectroscopy
This theme explores quantum transport phenomena and the optical properties of topological and Dirac materials, with the following objectives:
- investigation of the quantum Hall effect and its extensions (quantum capacitance and quantum inertia)
- understanding of topological phases and the quantum spin Hall effect
- study of cyclotron emission and strong light–matter coupling in Dirac materials
- exploration of low-energy excitations in two-dimensional materials
