Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Université du Québec
1650, Boulevard Lionel-Boulet
Varennes, J3V 2J3
http://www.emt.inrs.ca



Laboratory of ferroelectric nanoelectronics (LFN)
Director: Prof. Andreas Ruediger
Tel & Fax: +1-450-929-8254;
Mobile:+1-450-929-8254
e-mail:ruediger @emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay:     6 months

Research themes:
•     scanning probe microscopy on nanoscale ferroelectrics
•     modelling of ferroelectric tunnel effects
•     non-volatile ferroelectric memory devices
•     physical interplay between nanostructure and ferroelectric domain wall dynamics
•     numerical simulation of surface plasmon polaritons for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Equipment available:  
•    tip-enhanced Raman spectrometer
•    ambient scanning tunnelling microscope
•    ambient piezoresponse force microscope
•    conductive atomic force microscopy
•    ion implanter

Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS)
Director: Prof. Tsuneyuki Ozaki
Laboratory for Extreme Photon Sources (LEPS)
Laboratory for Ultrafast Laser Imaging (Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Université de Montréal)
e-mail: ozaki@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay:     4 months

Research themes:
•     High-order harmonics and attosecond pulse generation from plasma & solid surfaces
•     Intense terahertz radiation sources and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy
•     Application of femtosecond and picosecond lasers in virology and ophthalmology

Equipment available:  
•    Advanced Laser Light Source (a $21 million international laser user facility, with various 25 fs Ti:sapphire lasers, from 5 mJ/5kHz to 5 J/10Hz)
•     Femtosecond Yb:KGW laser and Picosecond optical parametric amplifier (operating at a research hospital)
•     600mJ/10Hz/60fs Ti:sapphire laser
•     Soft x-ray spectrometer
•     Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy setup
•     Home-made nonlinear optical microscope

Laboratory for ultrafast atomic and molecular imaging
Laboratory for the applications of nonlinear optics in biomedical imaging
Director: Prof. François Légaré
e-mail: legare@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay:     4 months

Research themes:
•    Atomic and molecular optical physics
•    Ion momentum coincidence imaging of atoms and molecules in intense laser field
•    Ultrafast molecular imaging with few-optical-cycle laser pulses
•    Generation and characterization of frequency tunable few-optical-cycle laser pulses
•    Applications of nonlinear optics to biomedical imaging – collagen and skeletal muscle imaging
•    Applications of intense ultrafast laser pulses for surgery

Equipment available:  
•    Advanced Laser Light Source (a $21 million international laser user facility, with various 25 fs Ti:sapphire lasers, from 5 mJ/5kHz to 5 J/10Hz)
•    Ion momentum coincidence imaging, electron velocity mapping imaging, high harmonic generation chamber.
•    High average power femtosecond/picosecond system including Titanium-Sapphire and Optical Parametric Oscillators.
•    Nonlinear optical laser scanning microscope.
•    Ultrafast visible streak camera for fluorescence spectroscopy.


Nano(meter)-Femto(second) Laboratory (NFL)
Director: Professor Federico Rosei, Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials
E-mail: rosei@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay: 6 months

Research themes:
•     nanostructured materials, functional materials
•     organic electronic devices
•     hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells
•     dynamic electron microscopy
•     supramolecular assembly at surfaces
•     biocompatible materials
•     surface science
•     catalytic conversion of gas to liquid
•     surface confined polymerization

Equipment available:  
•    three Ultra High Vacuum and one ambient Scanning Probe Microscopes
•    Low Energy Electron Diffraction
•    Solar Spectrum Simulator
•    Conductive atomic force microscopy
•    X-Ray Diffraction
•    X-Ray Photoelectron and Auger Electron Spectroscopy
•    A Transmission Electron Microscope (being modified for dynamic operation)

Laboratory for Ultrafast Light Manipulation (LULMAN)
Director: Professor Roberto Morandotti
E-mail: morandot@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay: 6 months

Research themes:
•     novel optoelectronics materials for C-MOS compatible hybrid integration
•     Extreme (high power) THz sources for nonlinear optics and biomedical applications
•     Ultra low power, ultrafast all-optical switching (for future telecom and all –optical computers)
•     study of nonlinear dynamics in complex (photonics) systems
•     Novel optoelectronics devices for single photons and quantum photonics applications

Equipment available:  
•    various ultrafast laser systems (OPAs, etc)
•    State-of the art optical linear and nonlinear characterization set ups (end fire rig etc.)
•    Autocorrelators, Frogs etc.
•    High resolution tunable lasers, spectrum analysers etc.
•    Various pulsed THz sources (antenna, ferroelectric crystals, etc)
•    Various electro-optics and magneto-optics characterizations set-ups)


Laboratory of Nanomaterials Synthesis and Characterization (LNSC)
Director: Professor Dongling Ma
E-mail: ma@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay: 12 months for PDF
At least three years for PhD

Research themes:
•     Synthesis of various nanoparticles including superparamagnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, metal nanoparticles
•     Nanohybrid solar cells
•     Multifunctional nanoarchitectures
•     Surface chemistry and modification of nanoparticles
•     Development of nanocatalysts
•     Nanoparticles in biomedicine

Equipment available:  
•    Fluorescence spectrometer
•    Time-resolved photoluminescence spectrometer
•    Advanced microscope for spatial spectral and lifetime mapping of photoluminescence  
•    UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectrometer
•    Particle size analyzer
•    Chemical synthesis and preparation facilities including fume hoods, a glove box, a centrifuge, reactors


Laboratory of Nanostructured Materials for Photo-Electronic Devices (LNMPED)
Director: Professor My-Ali EL KHAKANI
E-mail: elkhakani@emt.inrs.ca

Minimum duration of stay: 9 months

Research themes:
•    Laser/Plasmas synthesis/processing of nanostructured materials (i.e. carbon nanotubes, metal/semiconducting nanoparticles, ultrathin films)
•     Advanced functional coatings (PECVD, sputtering, pulsed laser deposition,…)
•     Carbon nanotubes/polymer nanocomposites
•     Advanced electronic materials for CMOS
•    Photo-electronic devices; Gas sensing devices
•     Carbon nanotubes based photovoltaic devices
•     Photo-active thin films
•     Structural, electrical, optoelectronic and nanoscale characterizations of materials

Equipment available:  
•    State-of-the-art nano-materials synthesis systems (including three-guns-sputtering UHV-system, various pulsed laser deposition Setups, PECVD and CVD reactors,…)
•    Open-air and under-vacuum photo-electrical characterization systems
•    Photoluminescence measurement setup
•    Complete array of advanced techniques for materials characterisations (including FTIR, TGA, UV-Vis, XPS/AES, XRD/XRR, SEM,….)
•    Solar simulator and wavelength-dependent photocurrent measurements
•    Privileged access to AFM/STM and TEM , EXELFS, X-Ray Diffraction
•   Access to the central micro/nanofabrication facility (LMN) of INRS-EMT with a complete 6”-diam-wafer compatible processing chain.

Ferroic Lab
Director: Prof. Alain Pignolet
Tel.: +1-450-929-8205
Fax: +1-450-929-8102
E-mail: pignolet@emt.inrs.ca

Research themes:
•    Functional complex oxides.
•    Multifunctional oxides and heterostructures.
•    Scaling and size effects in ferroic, especially ferroelectric oxides
•    Epitaxial thin films, heterostructures and nanostructures of ferroic and multiferroic complex oxides.
•    Interface between oxides & Lattice-stress-strain engineering
•    Hybrid inorganic / organic functional heterostructures
•    Piezoresponse force microscopy & other advanced scanning probe techniques for functional properties characterization at the nanoscale

Equipment available:  
•    High resolution  7 axes (Euler cradle) PANalytical MRD XRD diffractometer
•    Ambient piezoresponse force microscope
•    Advanced scanning probe microscopes, such as magnetic force microscope, Conductive atomic force microscope

Minimum duration of stay:    6 months   (4 month stay possible during summer)
Graduate studies: M.Sc. (1.5-2 years) and Ph.D. (3-4 years)
Post-graduate research