Centre_for_Materials_Elaboration_and_Structural_Studies
Centre for Materials Elaboration and Structural Studies
Research center in Toulouse, France
The "Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales" (CEMES) is a CNRS laboratory located in Toulouse, France.
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CEMES is a public fundamental research laboratory specializing in solid state physics, nanosciences, molecular chemistry and materials science. Its activities cover a spectrum from synthesizing (nano)materials and molecular systems to study and modelling of their structures and physical properties (optical, mechanical, electronic and magnetic) and their integration in devices. [1]
An important part of the laboratory’s experimental activity is studying and manipulating individual objects whose characteristic sizes are at the nanometric or atomic scales. Most of this experimental work uses state-of-the-art instrumentation supported by instrumental and methodological developments in the laboratory’s fields of transmission electron microscopy,[2] near-field microscopy and optical spectroscopy. These research and development themes integrate modelling and theoretical studies carried out at different scales within the laboratory.
CEMES is a CNRS laboratory associated with Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier University and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (INSA). Created in 1988, CEMES followed the previous Laboratoire d’Optique Electronique (LOE) created in 1957 by Prof. Gaston Dupouy.[3]
In contact with the academic community, CEMES is involved in training given at the university at every level: Bachelor, Master and Doctorate.
CEMES currently hosts about 160 people. In 2022 this included: 40 full-time CNRS researchers, 26 University professors or assistant professors, 36 engineers, technicians and administrative staff, and 12 postdocs, 31 Ph.D. students, and many undergraduate students.