Charles HIRLIMANN

M. Charles HIRLIMANN Directeur de Recherche (Emérite) – CNRSIPCMS – Département Surfaces et Interfaces (DSI)

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Present days interests

For my present days research activity I do contribute to the 3D electron microscopy that is performed in Professor Ovidiu ERSEN’s team.

The acceleration of researches aimed at exploring materials and structures at the nanometre scale has led the group to explore new characterization ways fitted to this scale. We first developed quantitative tomography that allows measuring specific quantities like porosity or surface areas, for instance, and analytical tomography based on EELS that allows the 3D chemical analysis of nanoparticles. The team now works on new methods that will allow studying nanoparticles and nanostructure under realistic conditions. Cells are developed allowing to set samples to be studied inside gas or liquid media at various high temperatures. To access physical and chemical studies, set ups are completed by electrical measurement means as well as by a chromatograph.

This doing will give to the team access to direct “in-situ” studies on real catalytic chemical reactions such as Fischer-Tropsch, Haber-Bosh … that are of uttermost economical importance.

Research profile

During the time of my Phd preparation I have been focusing on the experimental study of the phonons and their interactions with electrons in III-V semiconductors, by means of resonant and non-resonant Raman scatering of light (1972-1982).

I then visited Professor C. V. Shank, as a post-doctor in his lab at Bell Labs Holmdel and when back in France I pioneered the scattering in the academic world of the laser techniques allowing for the productions of ultrashort light pulses (<100 fs). I used these techniques looking for the fastest non-linear optical processes in matter. Starting in 2002 I shifted my scientific interest toward nanoscopic object and performed a series of ultrafast optical studies in the orld of silica nano marbles.

Following are some benchmarks of my scientific activity. Scrutiny of the first 100 femtoseconds durin silicon photo-melting [1-2]; ultrafast dynamics of the absorption saturation in GaS [3]; development of an original multipass amplifier for ultrashort light pulses [4]; first observation of the resonant optical Stark effect [5]; transposition of some wavelet formalisms to the world of ultra-short pulses [6]; first observation of the two-photon absorption saturation effect in CdS [7]; first observation of the self-steepening effect in CdS during ligh propagation and application to the propagative self-compression of ultrashort light pulses [8]; slowing down of light pulses propagating through disordered artificial opals [9]; new materials made out of compact layers of nanometric silica beads [10-12]; discovery of the optical induced tunnelling effect [11]; interpretation of the Branly effect [13]; proof-of-concept of a printer at the nano scale [14].

Teaching

From year 1976 to year 1983,I have been an assistant professor at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris teaching general physics to undergraduate students. From 1993 to 2007 I did teach the physics of ultrafast lasers to post graduate students in physics and chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. On a national level, I have been involved in the creation of the formation that is organized by CNRS at the University of Bordeaux dealing with ultrafast phenomena, and taught there during the period of time 1993 to 2007.

Publications short list

Selected papers

C.V. SHANK, R.T. YEN et C. HIRLIMANN Time resolved reflectivity measurements of femtosecond pulse induced phase transition in silicon Phys. Rev. Lett., 50, 454 (1983).
C.V. SHANK, R.T. YEN et C. HIRLIMANN Femtosecond time resolved surface structural dynamics of optically excited silicon Phys. Rev. Lett., 51, 900 (1983).
W.H. KNOX, C. HIRLIMANN, D.A.B. MILLER, J. SHAH, D.S. CHEMLA et C.V. SHANK Femtosecond excitation of nonthermal carrier populations in GaAs quantum wells Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 1191 (1986).
C. HIRLIMANN, O. SEDDIKI, J.F. MORHANGE, R. MOUNET et A. GODDI Femtosecond jet laser amplifier Optics Communications, 59, 52 (1986).
C. HIRLIMANN, J.F. MORHANGE, M.A. KANEHISA, A. CHEVY et C.H. BRITO CRUZ Resonant excitonic optical Stark effect in Ga Se Appl. Phys. Lett. 55, 2307 (1989).
MARIE MAY, J.-F. MORHANGE, C. HIRLIMANN Wave Group Decomposition of Ultra-short Light Pulses Opt. Lett., 18, 364 (1993).
J.-F. LAMI, P. GILLIOT et C. HIRLIMANN Observation of interband two-photon absorption saturation in CdS Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1632, (1996).
J.-F. LAMI, S. PETIT et C. HIRLIMANN Self-steepening of femtosecond pulses propagating through cadmium sulfide Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1032 (1999).
YU. A. VLASOV, S. PETIT, G. KLEIN, B. HÖNERLAGE, C. HIRLIMANN Femtosecond measurements of the time of flight of photons in a three-dimensional photonic crystal Phys. Rev. E, 60, 1030-1035 (1999)
R. MAFOUANA, J. L. REHSPRINGER, C. HIRLIMANN, C. ESTOURNES, K. D. DORKENOO Two-dimensional colloid-based photonic crystals for distributed feedback polymer lasers Appl. Phys. Lett., 85, 4278-4280 (2004).
C. HIRLIMANN, B. THOMAS et D. BOOSÉ Induced Optical Tunneling EuroPhys. Lett. 69, 48-54 (2005)
B. VIGOLO,A R. MAFOUANA, C. GOYHENEX, J. FAERBER, J. ARABSKI, C. HIRLIMANN, et J.-L. REHSPRINGER Self-controlled growth and two-dimensional ordering of metallic nanoparticles Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 153122 (2006)
C. HIRLIMANN Understanding the Branly effect, dépôt sur HAL.
G. MELINTE, S. MOLDOVAN, C.HIRLIMANN, X. LIU, S. B2GIN_COLIN, D. BEGIN, F. BANHART, C. PHAM_HUU & O. ERSEN/ Towards nanoprinting with metals on graphene. Nature Communications, 6, 8071, 2015
O. ERSEN, I. FLOREA, C. HIRLIMANN, C. PHAM_HUU; Exploring nano-materials with 3D electron microscopy. Materials Today, 18, 395, 2015.
E. PERTREUX, A. LOMBARDI, I. FLOREA, M. SPUCH-CALVAR, S. GOMEZ-GRANA, D. IHIAWAKRIM, C. HIRLIMANN, O. ERSEN, J. MAJIMEL, M. TREGUER-DELAPIERRE, M. HETTICH, P. MAIOLI, A. CRUT, F. VALLEE, ET N. DEL FATTI, « Surface Plasmon Resonance of an Individual Nano-Object on an Absorbing Substrate: Quantitative Effects of Distance and 3D Orientation »,Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 4, no 4, p. 567‑577, 2016.
L. ROIBAN, L. SORBIER, C. HIRLIMANN, ET O. ERSEN, « 3 D Chemical Distribution of Titania–Alumina Catalyst Supports Prepared by the Swing-pH Method », ChemCatChem, vol. 8, no 9, p. 1651–1657, 2016.
ROIBAN, O. ERSEN, C. HIRLIMANN, M. DRILLON, A. CHAUMONNOT, L. LEMAITRE, A.-S. GAY ET L. SORBIER, « Three-Dimensional Analytical Surface Quantification of Heterogeneous Silica-Alumina Catalyst Supports », CHEMCATCHEM, 9, 3503 – 3512, 2017
MELINTE, S. MOLDOVAN, C. HIRLIMANN, W. BAAZIZ, S. BEGIN-COLIN, C. PHAM-HUU, O. ERSEN « Catalytic Nanopatterning of Few-Layer Graphene », ACS CATALYSIS, 7, 5941-5949, 2017
DEMBELE, S. MOLDOVAN, Ch. HIRLIMANN, J. HARMEL, K. SOULANTICA, P. SERP, B. CHAUDRET, A.-S. GAY, S. MAURY, A. BERLIET, A.FECANT, O. ERSEN, « Reactivity and structural evolution of urchin-like Co nanostructures under controlled environments », JOURNALOF MICROSCOPY, 269, 2, 168-176 2018
L. ROIBAN, L. SORBIER, C. HIRLIMANN, O. ERSEN, « Obtaining 3D Chemical Maps by Energy Filtered Transmission Electron Microscopy Tomography », JoVE

Books

– Systèmes Femtosecondes. Ed. P. Laporte, F. Salin.

Publications de l’université de Saint-Étienne. Chap. 1

– Lasers et Technologies Femtosecondes. Ed. M. Sentis, O. Utéza

Publications de l’université de Saint-Étienne. Chap. 1

– Femtosecond Laser Pulses, seconde édition. Ed. C. Rullière

Springer Verlag, 2003. Chap. 1-2-4

– Sources lumineuses pour l’optoélectronique. Ed. C. Froehly

Hermes-Science, Lavoisier. 2003. Chap. 3

– Y’a pas de mal à se faire plaisir. Petit recueil de recettes de cuisine à l’usage des personnes seules.

Éditeur : Le Manuscrit. 2005

– Réactions Ultrarapides en Solution. Ed. M. Mostafavi, T. Gustavsson

CNRS Éditions. 2006. Chap. 3

– Vive le nucléaire ?

Éditeur : TheBookEdition. 2016

– Entre France et Allemagne

Éditeur : TheBookEdition. 2016

– La Révolution CO₂ !
Éditeur : TheBookEdition. 2018

– The CO₂ Revolution!
Éditeur : TheBookEdition. 2018

Invited talks

Ch. HIRLIMANN – « Europe-International collaboration @ CNRS », Conférence Invitée à GRDC Symposium 2012 (Global Research and Development Centers), Séoul, Corée du Sud12-13 novembre 2012.

2013. C. HIRLIMANN – « A strange instrument: the Fabry-Pérot interferometer », Conférence Invitée à OSA – Advanced Solid-State Laser (ASSL), Paris 28 octobre – 1er novembre 2013.
2014. C. HIRLIMANN – « Femtosecond spectroscopy in solids », Conférence Invitée à International Conference on Spectroscopy and Applications (ICSA 2014), Mammamet, Tunisie, 2-4 mai 2014.

-Ch. HIRLIMANN – « Towards a CO₂ Society », Conférence à l’Académie des Sciences Brésilienne, à l’occasion de ma signature du LIA-AEMB, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, 18 septembre -Ch. HIRLIMANN – « Towards a CO₂ Society », Conférence @ 1st Eucor colloqium for young Physicists – Chemists, Strasbourg, 6 December 2017

Movies

Conférence : Savoir(s) en commun : rencontres université-société : Les nanomatériaux : des matériaux d’avenir. 28 octobre 2003.

Conférence : Materials on a nanoscale #1

Conférence : Materials on a nanoscale #2

Série : Conférences Top Science. Introducing the nanoworld. 11 janvier 2007.

Top Science is the WebTV programme dedicated to research of the e-LERU virtual campus.