About
The Proximity Centre in Nanotechnologies of Paris North C(PN)2, hosted in the premises of the IUT of Villetaneuse, is a technological platform of the University Sorbonne Paris North (USPN) dedicated to micro- and nano-technologies which fullfills a need of settlement in the north academic area of Île-de-France, launched in march 2011. The C(PN)2 merges, on a technical plateform of 300 m2, a 195 m2 cleanroom ISO 7 (Class 10000) facility, a set of scientific equipments for micro- and nano-fabrication and characterization, together with the skills of a devoted staff comprising two BIATSS engineers from USPN and one IT from CNRS.
The 195 m2 cleanroom infrastructure results from a 1,9 M€ investment. The set of scientific equipments is about 6 M€.
Scientific and educational project :
C(PN)2 aimed at creating in the north area of Île-de-France a technological plateform in micro- and nano-technologies sharing means of fabrication and characterization with laboratories and teaching components of University Sorbonne Paris North (USPN). C(PN)2 is mainly concerned with alternative materials (organic semi-conductors, oxydes, diamond) for optoelectronics, photonics, spintronics and quantum technologies.
Part of a scientific network :
C(PN)2 is a Very Large Research Instrument (TGIR) labeled by CNRS as a regional technological platform of french nanofabrication network ‘’RENATECH+’’, created within the scope of the Future Investment Program PIA3. C(PN)2 specifically uses alternative organic materials and diamond, mainly for research in optoelectronics and training courses to cleanroom technologies from Bachelor to PhD students for industrials and research laboratories. The own features of C(PN)2 are also recognized by GIP-CNFM (a National Coordination of Training in Microelectronics) and NAP Mosaiq (a federative research structure from USPN) which regularly grant resources for buying educational equipments, on innovative projects, that can also serve as research or service tools. C(PN)2 is also part of IniDEX InnovMat, Alliance Sorbonne Paris Cité and benefits from several ANR fundings, through LPL and LSPM laboratories, by contributing to their research activities.
