Main objectives

The LPN Central Technology Facility belongs, together with five other facilities located in IEMN, LAAS, FEMTO, CEA-LETI associated to FMNT and IEF, to the national BTR network, the Basic Technology Research network initiated in 2004. This network supports all major public technological research centres.

Within the framework of this network, LPN supports more than sixty external projects every year, the technological investigation being developed in LPN while the project leader belongs to another lab. LPN process specialists evaluate the feasibility of the project, and define the technology to be exploited or to be developed in order to deliver the required structures or to perform high-end analysis. LPN has a 15% share of its technological activity devoted to research projects managed by groups or researchers from other laboratories.

The LPN expertise covers requirements such as delivery of MBE or MOVPE grown materials, mainly III-V semiconductors heterostructures, micro and nano technologies, and also analysis.