Welcome to the LNIO website.
The Laboratory of Nanotechnologies and OpticalInstrumentation is one of the UTT laboratories which makes up theCharles Delaunay Institute. It is also associated with the CEA LETIof Grenoble as a ‘Laboratoire de Recherche Correspondant’.
Over thepast few years the Laboratory has worked in close collaboration withthe Center for Nanoscale Materials of Argonne National Laboratory inthe USA as a partner in research into the physical properties of metalnanoparticles.
Sincethe invention of Near Field Optical Microscopy, which in the early 80sfirst gave the possibility of going beyond the limit of diffraction,optics has found its true place in the field
of Nanosciences andNanotechnologies. Much research work in Near Field Microscopy and Spectroscopy opened out their sphere of activity towards the end of the90s to give birth to a new branch of Optics : Nanooptics.This domaincovers the study and understanding of the phenomena involved in theinteraction of light and matter on a nanometric scale.Thus researchershave vast scope to observe, manipulate and structure matter ininteraction with light.
The LNIO, set up in 1994, has followed thisevolution. After spending ten years working on Near Field Microscopyand Spectroscopy, more particularly in the instrumental aspect and theunderstanding of the phenomena in the configurations calledapertureless probe, it has now widened its field of research to covernanocaptors, local structuring of photosensitive polymers and itsphenomena and techniques,nanoplasmonics,nanophotonics…
Beyond their research activities in Nanooptics within the LNIO ,the Team also works on development and technology transfer and carriesout Research and Development work in partnership with industries.
The organisation chart presented here shows five scientific research axes and a supplementary transversal axis on technological research.
The projects along the five axes are often transversal ones. Thespecialist research areas of the LNIO Team are called upon in all theresearch activities. Work on theoretical aspects and nanoopticalmodelling are to be found in all the axes.The relatively recentintroduction of project research and the clear management of theseprojects justifies partly the organisation of the Laboratory.
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The Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology (LETI) of the CEA of Grenoble and the LNIO (UTT)have just set up a "Laboratoire de Recherche Correspondant" (LRC) for Nanophotonics.
This first partnership as an LRC between the two institutions is using fifty researchers whose work covers properties and applications of light on a nanometric scale. Nanophotonics offers a vast field of research, both in the manufacture of semi-conductors and the development of lighting or biomedical research.