The Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales (CEMES) is a CNRS laboratory (UPR 8011) associated with the University of Toulouse and the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA). Created in 1988, CEMES is the successor of the previous Laboratoire d’Optique Electronique (LOE) founded in 1957 by Prof. Gaston Dupouy. CEMES is a fundamental research laboratory in solid state physics, nanoscience, molecular chemistry and materials science. Its activities cover a wide spectrum from the synthesis of (nano)materials and molecular systems to the study and modelling of their structures and physical properties (optical, mechanical, electronic and magnetic) and their integration into devices. An important part of the laboratory’s experimental activity is dedicated to the study and manipulation of individual objects whose characteristic sizes are at the nanoscale or atomic scale. Most of this experimental work is based on state-of-the-art instrumentation supported by instrumental and methodological developments in the laboratory’s flagship fields of transmission electron microscopy, near-field microscopy and optical spectroscopy. These research and development themes integrate modelling and theoretical studies carried out at different scales within the laboratory.
Toulouse
1988
