Nicolas Grandjean
Nicolas Grandjean | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 14, 1967 |
| Alma mater | University of Clermont-Ferrand University of Côte d'Azur (also called University of Nice before 2019) |
| Awards | CNRS Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Nicolas Grandjean (born February 14, 1967) is a French and Swiss professor of physics. His achievements include over 600 articles.[1]
Biography
[edit]Grandjean was born in Dijon, France, and is a French and Swiss citizen. He studied at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and the Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. In 1991, he joined the Solid-State Physics and Solar Energy Laboratory, a division of the French National Center for Scientific Research where he studied semiconductor nanostructures. By 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. and became a CNRS winner. Later on, as a senior research fellow, he worked at the Research Center for Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, a division of CNRS in Sophia Antipolis. In 2004, he became a tenure-track professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne becoming a director of the Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics where he still serves.[2] He was promoted Full Professor in 2010.[3] From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute of Condensed Matter.[4] Since 2019, he is a board member of Riber,[5] a world's leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products.
Research
[edit]In 1999, he along with his colleagues, have discovered that combining gallium nitride (GaN) and quantum dots (QDs) into aluminum nitride (AIN) matrix, produces a glowing white light.[6] In 2006, his group and colleagues at the University of Southampton reported polariton lasing at room-temperature.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nicolas Grandjean". Google Scholar. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. "Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics". École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "Nicolas Grandjean nommé professeur ordinaire". myScience. December 11, 2009. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "Institute of Condensed Matter Physics". École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "Governance". Riber. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ B. Damilano; Nicolas Grandjean; F. Semond; J. Massies; M. Leroux (June 18, 2009). "From visible to white light emission by GaN quantum dots on Si(111) substrate". Applied Physics Letters. 75 (7): 962–964. Bibcode:1999ApPhL..75..962D. doi:10.1063/1.124567.
- ^ "Room-Temperature Polariton Lasing in Semiconductor Microcavities". Purpose-Led Publishing. March 21, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "A polatiton laser". nature. May 30, 2007. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
   | This article about a French physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |