Biography:Nicolas Grandjean
Nicolas Grandjean | |
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| Born | February 14, 1967 Dijon, France |
| Alma mater | University of Clermont-Ferrand University of Côte d'Azur (also called University of Nice before 2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Nicolas Grandjean (born February 14, 1967) is a French and Swiss professor of physics. His achievements include over 600 articles.[1]
Biography
Nicolas Grandjean was born in Dijon, France, and is a French and Swiss citizen. He studied at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and the Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. In 1991, he joined the Solid-State Physics and Solar Energy Laboratory, a division of the French National Center for Scientific Research where he studied semiconductor nanostructures. By 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. Later on, as a senior research fellow, he worked at the Research Center for Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, a division of CNRS in Sophia Antipolis.
In 2004, he became a tenure-track professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne becoming a director of the Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics where he still serves.[2] He was promoted Full Professor in 2010.[3] From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute of Condensed Matter.[4] Since 2019, he is a board member of Riber,[5] a world's leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products.
In January 2025, he was appointed Associate Vice-President for Education at EPFL.[6]
Research
In 1999, he along with his colleagues, have discovered that combining gallium nitride (GaN) and quantum dots (QDs) into aluminum nitride (AIN) matrix, produces a glowing white light.[7] In 2006, his group and colleagues at the University of Southampton reported polariton lasing at room-temperature.[8][9]
References
- ↑ "Nicolas Grandjean". Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yY7bfPQAAAAJ&hl&hl=en&oi=ao. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. "Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics". École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. https://www.epfl.ch/labs/laspe/. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ "Nicolas Grandjean nommé professeur ordinaire". myScience. December 11, 2009. https://www.myscience.ch/en/news/wire/nicolas_grandjean_nomme_professeur_ordinaire-epfl. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ "Institute of Condensed Matter Physics". École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/orgunit/c1d69cbc-68f9-43bc-ad79-ad2488d57003. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ "Governance". Riber. https://www.riber.com/finance/governance/. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ "Internal EPFL Newsletter". EPFL. October 2024. https://newsletter.epfl.ch/en/newsletters/2a587a8d-a4be-4719-ba26-ad7d547040f9/render/. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
- ↑ B. Damilano; Nicolas Grandjean; F. Semond; J. Massies; M. Leroux (June 18, 2009). "From visible to white light emission by GaN quantum dots on Si(111) substrate". Applied Physics Letters 75 (7): 962–964. doi:10.1063/1.124567. Bibcode: 1999ApPhL..75..962D.
- ↑ "Room-Temperature Polariton Lasing in Semiconductor Microcavities". Purpose-Led Publishing. March 21, 2007. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.126405. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ↑ "A polatiton laser". nature. May 30, 2007. https://www.nature.com/articles/447540a. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
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