Beginning of the projet : 1/1/2014

Duration : 4 years

French partners :

Team leader : CARLO MASSOBRIO

Deputy team leader : CHRISTIAN MENY

Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, 23 Rue du Loess, BP43, F-67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France

Foreign partner

Country : South Corea

Coordinator : JEONG WEON WU

South Korean partner, leader : JEONG WEON WU, Departement of Physics, Quantum MetaMaterials Research Center (QMMRC), EWHA Womans University, Seoul, 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750 (South Korea).

Other partners: Seoul National University, University of Ulsan.

Scientific fields covered by the project :

Ultra-fast optics and nanophotonics, spintronics, photo-physical properties of molecules, oxide materials, multiferroic materials, computational material science.

This collaborative project aims at strengthening and establishing synergetic links (in the areas of physics and chemistry of nano-sciences) between IPCMS and Ewha Womans University, a Korean institute at the forefront in this domain. Ewha Womans University is the driving force of a Korean initiative having as main purpose the creation of collaborative projects with Europe and, in particular, with France.

This project will feature the study of functional nanostructures, their morphology, their electronic, magnetic and multi-ferroic properties as well as the relationship between nano-sciences and the ultrafast phenomena in optics and nano-photonics. The existing links between IPCMS and Ewha Womans University stem from the creation, in Seoul, of an international laboratory in which IPCMS (and CNRS) are considered as priority partners. This structure, featuring extended space for common laboratories, has been built by taking full advantage of a Korean government special grant awarded to Ewha Womans University for a period of 7 years. This grant results from a specific call oriented toward the establishment of strong links between Korean academic structures and European ones. Within this context, IPCMS has been able to propose itself as the French counterpart of this initiative. Since 2010, the French and Korean partners meet on a regular basis (at least twice a year), individual extended stays of French researchers in Korea being also possible. A scientific school targeted to undergraduate and graduate students is also organized each year.

Research topics of the LIA are as follows ultra-fast optics and nanophotonics, ultra-fast spin dynamics, spintronics, photo-physical properties of molecules, ultra-fast spectroscopy of proteins and of organic molecules, computational material science.