CURRENT TEAM
Post-doctoral Researchers
Jesus CAÑAS
PhD Students
Elçin AKAR, "
GaN-based single nanowire resonant photodetectors using quantum confined states" (co-supervised with Martien den Hertog)

Andy SEGURET, "
Ga2O3-based heterostructures for the next generation of power electronics" (co-supervised with Vincent Consonni)

Ettore COCCATO, "
III-Nitride Nanostructures for Far-UVC Emitters"
Master Students
Have a look at our
internship announcements.
HISTORYPhD Degrees Conferred
Fabien GUILLOT,
“Development of nitride-based nanostructures for infrared optoelectronics”, November 13
th 2007 (
text in French)
Sylvain LECONTE,
“Study of vertical transport in GaN-based heterostructures for opto- and micro-electronics”, March 6
th 2009 (
text in French)
Lise LAHOURCADE,
“Plasma-assisted moleuclar beam epitaxy of (11-22)-oriented III-nitrides”, October 6
th 2009 (
text in English)
Prem Kumar KANDASWAMY, “
Al(Ga)N Nanostructures for near- and mid-infrared intersubband optoelectronics”, June 29
th 2010 (
text in English)
Aparna DAS, “
III-Nitride quantum dots for application to opto-chemical sensors”, June 13
th 2012 (
text in English)
Yulia KOTSAR,
"GaN/Al(Ga)N quantum wells for intersubband optoelectronics in the near-, mid- and far-infrared", October 8
th 2012 (
text in English)
Chalermchai HIMWAS,
"Nitride based nanostructures for ultraviolet emission", January 27
th 2015 (
text in English)
Mark BEELER,
"Quantum engineering of III-nitride nanostructures for infrared photonics", June 9
th 2015 (
text in English) (
2017 laureate of the Fondation Nanosciences Thesis Prize)
Caroline B. LIM,
"GaN/AlGaN heterostructures for infrared optoelectronics: Polar vs. nonpolar orientations", June 26
th 2017 (
text in English)
(2018 laureate of the Fondation Nanosciences Thesis Prize)
Akhil AJAY,
"GaN/AlGaN nanowires for quantum devices", Sept. 25
th 2018 (
text in English)
Maria SPIES,
"Correlated electro-optical and TEM studies on single III-N nanowire heterostructures", Oct. 17
th 2019 (
text in English) (
2020 laureate of the C’Nano Thesis Prize)
Ioanna DIMKOU,
"Correlative microscopy of III-N nanostructures:
Application to photonics and power electronics" , Oct. 1
st 2021 (
text in English)
Anjali HARIKUMAR,
"Development of AlGaN nanostructure s for electron-pumped UV light emitting devices" , June 14
th 2022 (
text in English)
Sergi CUESTA, "
Development of AlGaN nanostructures for the fabrication of electron pumped UV lasers", December 13
th 2022 (
text in English)

Lou DENAIX, "
Characterisation of polarisation fields in III-nitride semiconductors by off-axis electron holography", October 10
th 2024 (
text in English)
Master Degrees Conferred

Vicente ESPUELA SÁNCHEZ,
“Design of an automatic system for characterization of ultraviolet photodetectors”, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Polytechnic University of Madrid, September 2001

Fabien GUILLOT,
“Epitaxy and study of AlGaN/GaN superlattices”, CEA-Grenoble / Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, July 2004

Sylvain LECONTE,
“Development of the technology to fabricate GaN-based devices”, CEA-Grenoble / École Généraliste d'Ingénieurs de Marseille, July 2005

Lise LAHOURCADE,
“Synthesis and characterization of non-polar nitride semiconductors”, CEA-Grenoble / École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble, July 2006

Qiran LI,
“Contribution to the fabrication of GaN microcavities: Deep etching of the substrate and modelling of Bragg reflectors”, CEA-Grenoble / Institut de Formation d’Ingénieurs de Paris-Sud, Sept. 2009, Sept. 2010

Priyasmita SINHA (Master I),
“Study of the radiative efficiency of III-nitride nanostructures”, CEA-Grenoble / Université Joseph Fourier / University of Delhi, July 2010, July 2011

Qing PAN,
“Heterostructured GaN single-nanowire photodetectors”, CEA-Grenoble / University of Grenoble, June 2012

Priyasmita SINHA (Master II),
“Assessment of InGaN Nanostructures as Photodetectors”, CEA-Grenoble / University of Delhi, July 2011

Akhil AJAY (Master I),
“Structural and Optical Characterization of InGaN Nanostructures for Advanced Photovoltaics”, CEA-Grenoble / University of Grenoble / University of Delhi, June 2014

Akhil AJAY (Master II),
“Infrared optoelectronics using nonpolar III-nitride nanostructures”, CEA-Grenoble / University of Delhi, July 2015

Jakub POLACZYSNKY (Master I),
"Influence and manipulation of polarization fields in nitride nanowire heterostructures studied by correlated photoluminescence and transmission electron microscopy" (Co-supervised with Dr. Martien den Hertog and Dr. Bruno Gayral), CEA-Grenoble / University of Grenoble, July 2016

Balakumar BASKARAN (Master II),
"Chemical mapping at the sub-nm scale of ultraviolet μ-LEDs" (co-supervised with Dr. Adeline Grenier and Dr. Catherine Bougerol), CEA-Grenoble / University of Grenoble, July 2018

Sergi CUESTA, "
Growth and characterization of semiconducting nanowires for photodetection"' (
co-supervised with Dr. Moïra Hocevar), CEA-Grenoble / Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, July 2019

Samar HAGAG, "
Contribution to the fabrication of an electron-pumped UV laser", CEA-Grenoble / Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, July 2019

Lou DENAIX, "
Optical characterization of AlGaN-based separate confinement heterostructures and distributed Bragg reflectors for the fabrication of UV-lasers", CEA-Grenoble / Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, July 2021

Adam BIEGANSKI, "
Development of a method of obtaining GaN nanowires with the top-down approach", (co-supervised with Martien Den Hertog), CEA-Grenoble / Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, July 2022

Elçin AKAR, "
Contribution to the development of photodetectors based on nitride semiconductor nanowires", CEA-Grenoble / Univ. Lyon, Aug. 2022

Matteo KNEBEL, “
Fabrication of top-down GaN semiconductor nanowires” (co-supervised with Martien den Hertog) CEA-Grenoble / INSA Lyon, Aug. 2023

Arthur BERTOT, “
Characterization of single-nanowire photodetectors” (co-supervised with Martien den Hertog), CEA-Grenoble / Grenoble INP, Sept. 2023
Former Post-doctoral Researchers
Eirini SARIGIANIDOU, Oct. 2005 - Sep. 2006
Fernando GONZALEZ-POSADA, Jan. 2011 - June 2012
Emannouil TRICHAS, Dec. 2012 - Dec. 2014
Sirona VALDUEZA-FELIP, Jan. 2012 - Mar. 2015
Luca REDAELLI, Jan. 2014 - May 2017
Jonas LÄHNEMANN, Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2016
David BROWNE, Jun. 2015 - May 2017
Houssaine MACHHADANI, Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019 (co-supervised with Jean-Michel GERARD)
Aidan ROONEY, Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2021 (co-supervised with David COOPER)
Ali JAFFAL, Mar. 2020 - Dec. 2021 (co-supervised with Moïra HOCEVAR and Olivier CONSTANTIN)
High School Intern
Felix RÜLING, Dec. 2018
Past Visiting Scholars
Sirona VALDUEZA-FELIP (Universidad de Alcala, Spain), Sep. - Dec. 2008, Oct. - Dec. 2009, June - Aug. 2016

Jörg TEUBERT (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany), May - Jun. 2009

Zarko GACEVIC (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), Jun. - Sep. 2009

Laura MONTEAGUDO-LERMA (Universidad de Alcala, Spain), Sep. - Dec. 2011, Oct. - Dec. 2012

Arantzazu NUÑEZ CASCAJERO (Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain), Jan. - Apr. 2014

Marco JIMENEZ (Universidad de Alcala, Spain), Oct. - Dec. 2015

Jan MÜSSENER (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany), Dec. 2015

Pascal HILLE (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany), Dec. 2015

Rodrigo BLASCO (Universidad de Alcala, Spain), Sep. - Nov. 2017

Kamil KORONSKI (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Nov. - Dec. 2017

Mikołaj CHLIPAŁA (Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland), Sept. 2023