BARBE Jérémy

Categories: PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER, TEAM PCM

Senior Lecturer

Functions :

2021- : Senior Lecturer (IMN, Nantes University)
2019-2021: R&D Engineer ARMOR/CNRS IMS Pessac
2017-2019: Postdoctoral researcher, SPECIFIC IKC, Swansea University, Wales, UK
2014-2017: Postdoctoral researcher, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Qualifications :

2013 PhD of the Université de Toulouse. Title: “Fabrication and characterization of silicon nanocrystals encapsulated in amorphous silicon matrices: role of interfaces and matrix on structural, optical and electrical properties”.
2009 INSA Rennes Engineer – Materials and Nanotechnologies

Expertises :

Thin films deposition using plasma techniques (Reactive sputtering, DC, RF)
High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS)
Functional oxide and nitride thin films

Main research themes:

Plasma deposition for functional materials and energy applications (reactive sputtering)
Nitride and oxide thin film electrodes for microsupercapacitors and high-power microbatteries
Reactive magnetron sputtering, high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS)
Thin films for solar cells (interfacial selective layers)
Thin film and surface characterizations (electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy…)

Current research projects :

Bourse doctorale Nantes Université: Perovskite oxide thin films as electrodes for high power microbatteries.
ANR JCJC PERFORM: Plasma-Processed 3D Electrodes for Microsupercapacitors
CHIPS: Combinatorial HiPIMS for Sovereignty (CEA – IMN project)
ASTERIX: Advanced surface technologies for resilient and innovative materials in extreme environments (PEPR DIADEM project, CEA-LPGP-IMN-SIMaP collaboration)

Activities in the research community :

Member of IRN (Franco-Quebec) NMC
Cold Plasma Network

Biography

English:

Jérémy Barbé is a researcher at the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN), in the Plasma and Thin Films group (PCM), and a teacher in the Materials department at Polytech Nantes (Nantes University). A specialist in functional materials for energy, his research focuses on thin films deposition by plasma methods such as sputtering and HiPIMS, with applications in electrochemical energy storage microdevices, and thin-film solar cells.

After graduating in materials and nanotechnology engineering from INSA Rennes (2009), he obtained a PhD from Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III) in 2013, with a thesis on the fabrication by PECVD of silicon nanocrystals in thin-film silica matrices, carried out at CEA LITEN and CNRS LAPLACE. He then moved on to various post-doctorates focusing on sol-gel deposition techniques for thin-film solar cells (CIGS, perovskites and organics). These stopovers took him under the burning sun of Saudi Arabia in KAUST (2014-2016), then under the Welsh clouds in Swansea (2017-2019), before joining the ARMOR group and CNRS IMS in Pessac.

In 2021, he joined IMN as a lecturer where he works on the development of innovative thin-film materials used as electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices. His research focuses in particular on oxides, nitrides and oxynitrides obtained by reactive sputtering (HiPIMS, DCMS…).

Active in the scientific community, he is a member of IRN NMC and the Cold Plasma Network. His work is regularly published and cited in the field of energy materials.

French :

Jérémy Barbé is a lecturer at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN) in Nantes, in the Plasma and Thin Films group (PCM), and a teacher in the Materials department at Polytech Nantes. A specialist in functional materials for energy, his research focuses on plasma deposits, electrodes for microsupercapacitors, and thin-film solar cells, particularly organic and perovskite.

A graduate in materials and nanotechnology engineering from INSA Rennes (2009), in 2013 he obtained a PhD from Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III), with a thesis on the PECVD fabrication of silicon nanocrystals in thin-film silicate matrices, carried out at CEA LITEN and CNRS LAPLACE. He then moved on to various post-doctorates focusing on sol-gel deposition techniques for thin-film solar cells (CIGS, perovskites and organics). These stopovers took him under the burning sun of Saudi Arabia in KAUST (2014-2016), then under the Welsh clouds in Swansea (2017-2019), before joining the ARMOR group, linked to the CNRS IMS in Pessac.

In 2021, he joined IMN as a lecturer where he works on the manufacture of innovative thin-film materials used as electrodes for electrochemical energy storage devices. His research focuses in particular on oxides, nitrides and oxynitrides obtained by reactive sputtering (HiPIMS, DCMS…).

Active in the scientific community, he is a member of the IRN NMC and the Cold Plasma Network. His work is regularly published and cited in the field of materials for energy.

Teaching :

Teaching in Polytech Nantes (semiconductors, thin films, sensors, material characterizations)

Publications :

35 articles in peer-reviewed journals

Major publications:

A Lebreton, J Barbé, C Lethien, JN Coleman, T Brousse, Tuning Deposition Conditions for VN Thin Films Electrodes for Microsupercapacitors: Influence of the Substrate Bias Voltage, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 171 (9), 090513, (2024)
J Barbé, M Newman, S Lilliu, V Kumar, H Ka Hin Lee, C Charbonneau, C Rodenburg, D Lidzey, WC Tsoi, Localized effect of PbI2 excess in perovskite solar cells probed by high-resolution chemical-optoelectronic mapping, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6 (45), 23010-23018 (2018)
A Lebreton, C Lethien, JN Coleman, T Brousse, J Barbé, Tuning Deposition Conditions for VN Thin Films Electrodes for Microsupercapacitors: Influence of the Substrate Bias Voltage, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 172 (4), 040523 (2025)
J Barbé, ML Tietze, M Neophytou, B Murali, E Alarousu, AE Labban, et al, Amorphous tin oxide as a low-temperature-processed electron-transport layer for organic and hybrid perovskite solar cells, ACS applied materials & interfaces 9 (13), 11828-11836 (2017)

Link to orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3366-4567

Link to scholar.google.fr: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oBvrlzgAAAAJ&hl=fr