LPS 2025 Highlights are now available
The LPS 2025 Highlights booklet is now online. It presents the main scientific achievements, distinctions, and key moments that shaped the life of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides throughout …
Organic molecules for quantum detection
A Franco-British research team has developed a luminous organic molecule capable of revealing its quantum spin state by a simple change of colour, a result that opens up a new …
Nickelates: A Stabilized Superconducting State Without Doping
Cuprates, copper-based oxides, are renowned for their high-temperature superconducting properties. Doping—the process of introducing foreign atoms (dopants) into the material’s structure—modulates their electronic properties and promotes superconductivity by altering the …
Guiding Nanoparticle Assembly into Complex Structures
Researchers have developed a new method to introduce controlled disorder intro crystals of anisotropic gold nanoparticles. This result, at the crossroad between chemistry and engineering, offers prospects for the synthesis …
STEM
The STEM platform in LPS hosts two cutting-edge scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM), USTEM200 and CHROMATEM, providing support to a wide range of research fields in materials science, condensed matter …
MORPHEUS
MORPHology and structure of nanomatErials stUdied by X-ray Scattering This platform of X-ray scattering experiments within the MATRIX team is well-adapted to the study of nanostructured materials (nanoparticles, nanoobjects, nano- …
Cryo-EM
Cryo electron microscopy for soft matter physics and interface physics-biology Cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) let us visualize biological and soft matter objects at (sub) nanometer scale while preserving their hydrated …
Physical Measurement Platform
Following the summer Hacking attack, the traditional websites are not accessible for the time being. Please address you to this temporary share files for information and reservation of measuring time: …
Micro and Nanotechnologies
The LPS micro and nanotechnologies facility (platform) located at the basement of the SOUTH wing offers a large set of fabrication and characterization technologies. More than 250 m² are dedicated …
Soft Matter Characterization and Confocal Microscopy
SoMaC & CoMic is a platform that offers services and equipments dedicated to the characterization of soft matter and complex physical-biological interfaces. The devices and techniques are varied: rheology (Anton …