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Presentation

The Micro Nano Bio (MNBT) department, comprising approximately 100 members, including thirty-five faculty researchers and researchers, and around forty doctoral students, is dedicated to the development of innovative technologies. These efforts aim to address major societal challenges, particularly in the fields of health, environment, and digital technology. Our research approach encompasses the development, structuring, integration, and modeling of various types of nanomaterials and nano-objects, ranging from semiconductors to organic, living, and polymer materials. This process extends to the functional integration of these elements into innovative devices and complex systems. We are also committed to assessing and minimizing the environmental impact of our research subjects and practices, highlighting our growing concern for sustainability.

The scientific activities of the MNBT department rely on state-of-the-art technological resources grouped within three platforms at LAAS-CNRS: the micro and nanotechnology platform, the characterization platform, and the design platform.

Challenges, themes, and research objectives

Our research endeavors aim to address current societal challenges in health/biology, the environment, and the digital society. Each challenge is broken down into research themes guiding the department's activities and research objectives through a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach. Three research themes are identified:

• Technologies for Digital: synthesis and modeling of advanced materials nanoelectronics, quantum and spintronics, physical sensors, organic electronics, silicon MEMS, environmentally friendly processes
• Technologies for Health: Diagnosis and repair of living organisms, Environmental impact on health, Drugs/Pharmacology,  Microfluidic and/or biomimetic devices, Predictive atomistic models for biology, MEMS Biomedical, Electromagnetic fields in complex environments, micro physiologic organs on chip 
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2025

Journal articles

R. Demoulin, Richard Daubriac, S. Kerdilès, L. Dagault, O. Adami, et al.. Evolution of the liquid/solid interface roughness in Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$ layers processed by nanosecond laser annealing. Applied Surface Science, 2025, 684, pp.161982. ⟨10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.161982⟩. ⟨hal-04821556⟩

Hugo Villanti, Sébastien Plissard, Jean Baptiste Doucet, Alexandre Arnoult, Benjamin Reig, et al.. Self-assembled GaAs quantum dashes for direct alignment of liquid crystals on a III-V semiconductor surface. Applied Physics Express, In press, ⟨10.35848/1882-0786/adb3eb⟩. ⟨hal-04938203⟩

Preprints, Working Papers, ...

Richard Monflier, Richard Daubriac, Mahmoud Haned, Toshiyuki Tabata, François Olivier, et al.. Impact of impurities on leakage current induced by High-Energy Density Pulsed Laser Annealing in Si diodes. 2025. ⟨hal-04878600⟩

2024

Journal articles

Chiara Rossi, Jonas Müller, Peter Pichler, Paweł Piotr Michałowski, Guilhem Larrieu. TCAD modeling and simulation of self-limiting oxide growth and boron segregation during vertical silicon nanowire processing. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2024, 174, pp.108217. ⟨10.1016/j.mssp.2024.108217⟩. ⟨hal-04639888⟩

Rohit Unni, Mingyuan Zhou, Peter Wiecha, Yuebing Zheng. Advancing materials science through next-generation machine learning. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2024, 30, pp.101157. ⟨10.1016/j.cossms.2024.101157⟩. ⟨hal-04760148⟩

Luca Bettamin, Fabrice Mathieu, Florent H Marty, Marie Charline Blatche, Daniel Gonzalez‐dunia, et al.. Real‐Time and High‐Resolution Monitoring of Neuronal Electrical Activity and pH Variations Based on the Co‐Integration of Nanoelectrodes and Chem‐FinFETs. Small, 2024, 20 (27), pp.2309055. ⟨10.1002/smll.202309055⟩. ⟨hal-04639879⟩

Damiano Ricciarelli, Jonas Müller, Guilhem Larrieu, I

Brittany played a significant role in developing Post-Impressionism and Pictorial Symbolism, with its Catholic culture a source of inspiration and Catholic artists among its pioneers. Several artists also contributed to reviving sacred art in Europe whilst offering or creating work for local churches. The visual arts remain significant for Brittany through collections of Post Impressionist work and contemporary exhibitions such as the current retrospective of the Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller in Rennes.

Pont-Aven is the catalytic location, a village in the west of Brittany clustered around a bridge spanning the river Aven and set in a deep valley surrounded by attractive hills and woods. The village was already an artist’s colony when Paul Gauguin arrived in late July 1886. In August, he first met Émile Bernard, who, having been expelled from the Atelier Cormon in Paris for insubordinate behaviour, had begun a six-month walking tour through Normandy and Brittany. MaryAnne Stevens noted that this ‘voyage à pied’ awakened a “lifelong love for the latter region’s art and architecture, customs, traditions and faith”. He met Gauguin’s friend, the stockbroker and painter Emile Schuffenecker, painting on the beach in Concarneau (another local artist’s colony). Consequently, Bernard also arrived in Pont-Aven.

Bernard is again in Brittany the following year, firstly at Saint-Briac on the northern coast and then at Pont-Aven, where he hopes to see Gauguin. Gauguin, however, is in Martinique, so it is not until 1888, prompted by Vincent Van Gogh, that the two re-connect in Pont-Aven. Bernard, by this time, has developed, together with Louis Anquetin, the Cloisonism style through, as Belinda Thomson has described, “the use of simple outlining and blocked colour”, drawing on the influenc