Many of our modern technologies have deeply impacted our quality of life on the past few decades. At the basis of all our sophisticated technologies – such as computing and communications - are the materials whose physical properties make them possible. The discovery of new materials or original viewpoints on existing ones are crucial for the development of future technologies. Most of the recent groundbreaking discoveries in solid state science – such as high TC superconductivity in cuprates – were obtained on new materials close to a metal-insulator transition (MIT).
Our research aims at exploring the frontier of novel advanced materials in the vicinity of a MIT. One of the objectives is to bring into light new unconventional electronic properties. Our multidisciplinary approach includes the rational research of materials, their synthesis and characterization (solid state chemistry), investigation of their electronic properties (solid state physics) and recently thin film deposition (engineering, collaboration with the Plasma&Thin Film group of IMN).
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