Technological Facilities

A short presentation

LCFIO is a co-founding member of the Joined Technological Platform together with Thales Research and Technology (TRT) and the Ecole Polytechnique that has been created in September 2004. The involvement of the Institute of Optics and its laboratory to this Technological Platform is a logical consequence of several scientific partnership agreements that have been concluded with Thales since 2003.

This Technology Platform, hosted by TRT, is dedicated, in one hand, to research and development activities and on the other hand to micro and nanotechnologies teaching. Therefore it allows LCFIO scientists proximity access to high level technologies.

As defined in the status of the platform, each co-founder owns one or more equipments. For its part, the LCFIO has bought and installed a nB3 e-beam lithography system from Nanobeam Ltd.

Thanks to this high-performance equipment (NBL3) and all the technological facilities accessible to the laboratory staff in the Joined Technological Platform (TRT technological facilities), plasmonic and biophotonic projects are in progress. Nanofabrication for these applications has already led to promising first results.

The LCFIO also owns its own clean room facilities, located in the 503 building in the Orsay university campus (Plateau).While the deposition equipments are mostly dedicated to X-UV applications thin layers (X-UV Optics Team), the clean-room equipment entirety can be used by LCFIO staff.

Moreover, the laboratory keeps up with collaborations with two major clean room facilities in the Paris Region : the LPN in Marcoussis and the CTU-Minerve from IEF in Orsay University.

For very specific technological requirements that cannot be realized with the above facilities, researchers can also use the BTR Network. This national technology network gives the opportunity to interact with seven major technological facilities around the Franch territory, but also smaller proximity facilities. (learn more)