LNIO - Laboratory of Nanotechnology, Instrumentation and Optics

Researchers at LNIO are working on new concepts and approaches, developing both innovative instrumentation and nanocharacterization and nanomanufacturing methods. Covering such fields as energy (lighting, photovoltaics, etc.), telecommunications, data storage, health and security, key socio-economic challenges are addressed through multidisciplinary research focus areas: plasmonics, integrated optics, optoelectronics, new spectroscopies and microscopies, multiphysics modeling, multi-functional nanosensors, nanobiophotonics and nanomaterials for photonics, photochemistry and photophysics. LNIO also contributes to research carried out within the scope of the core interfaculty focus of Risk Management Science and Technologies (CNRS Joint Research Unit 6279). LNIO's work mainly concerns the study and development of micro-/nanosensors dedicated to the observation and surveillance of complex systems and their environments (detection and identification of physical and biochemical components). LNIO pursues six areas of research:Nanospectroscopy, Molecular plasmonics and nanophotochemistry, Nanophotonics, Simulation and modeling,Nanobiophotonics, Nanomanufacturing.