| 3.5 UTT
University of Technology of Troyes | France
The UTT is a public Higher Education Institution focused mainly on engineering and applied science studies and organised on the base of the triptych “teaching-research-valorisation” (transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and transfer of knowledge to the society). UTT hosts about 3,200 students and employs 170 academic and 230 nonacademic staff. The UTT is one of the nine members of the European University of Technology (EUT+), with the University of Cassino being one of them.
Research activities at UTT are conducted in five research units by more than 360 people, including 123 faculties, almost 200 doctoral students and more than 40 technical and administrative staff, in the fields of engineering sciences, information and communication sciences and technologies, and human and social sciences. The laboratory Light, nanomaterials and nanotechnologies (L2n) aims at the development of nano-optics, which addresses a number of technological, scientific and socio-economic challenges.
The L2n is a joint UTT/CNRS laboratory of more than 130 people comprising faculty members, CNRS researchers, research and project engineers, technicians, post-doctorate fellows, PhD students, graduate students and visitors. Researchers at the L2n work on new approaches, developing both innovative instrumentation and nanocharacterisation and nanofabrication methods.
Role and profile of key people
Prof. Christophe Couteau (UTT node PI) is a full professor of Physics, expert on photonics, quantum technologies and nanotechnologies.
Dr. Rafael Salas-Montiel is researcher/research engineer, expert in the field of integrated photonics, graphene photonics, and scanning probe microscopies (NSOM, KPFM).
Prof. Gilles Lerondel is full Professor expert in light-matter interaction control at nanoscale including the development of nanostructured multifunctional materials and surfaces.
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment
The L2n possesses 1300 m2 of laboratory space including 700 m2 of clean rooms. The facility platform associated and managed by the L2n is the platform nano’mat, part of the CNRS national network of technological platforms RENATECH+ on micro/nanotechnologies. L2n covers fields such as energy (lighting, photovoltaics), telecommunications, data storage, health and security, key challenges are addressed in multidisciplinary research areas: plasmonics, integrated optics, optoelectronics, spectroscopy and microscopy, multiphysics modelling, multi-functional nanosensors, nanobiophotonics and nanomaterials for photonics, quantum nanodevices, photochemistry and photophysics, with research expertise in microphotoluminescence of quantum emitters, nanosources, single nano-objects, lifetime and correlation measurements of single (nano)-emitters, room temperature and cryogenic temperature (~4K) of (quantum) emitters, electrical, magnetic or optically-detected magnetic resonance at room/low temperatures of individual emitters (nano or otherwise), high-resolution spectroscopy of single nano-objects (room and low temperature), low-light detection level, photonic structures and EM simulation using FEM, FDTD at the nanoscale.
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