Nicolas Grandjean | |
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| Born | (1967-02-14)February 14, 1967 (age 58) |
| Alma mater | University of Clermont-Ferrand University of Côte d'Azur (also calledUniversity of Nice before 2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Nicolas Grandjean (born February 14, 1967) is a French and Swiss professor ofphysics. His achievements include over 600 articles.[1]
Nicolas Grandjean was born inDijon,France, and is a French and Swiss citizen. He studied at theUniversity of Clermont-Ferrand and theUniversité Nice-Sophia-Antipolis. In 1991, he joined the Solid-State Physics and Solar Energy Laboratory, a division of theFrench National Center for Scientific Research where he studied semiconductor nanostructures. By 1994 he obtained his Ph.D. Later on, as a senior research fellow, he worked at theResearch Center for Heteroepitaxy and its Applications, a division of CNRS inSophia Antipolis.
In 2004, he became a tenure-track professor at theÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne becoming a director of theLaboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics where he still serves.[2] He was promoted Full Professor in 2010.[3] From 2012 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute of Condensed Matter.[4] Since 2019, he is a board member of Riber,[5] a world's leading supplier of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) products.
In January 2025, he was appointed Associate Vice-President for Education at EPFL.[6]
In 1999, he along with his colleagues, have discovered that combininggallium nitride (GaN) andquantum dots (QDs) intoaluminum nitride (AIN) matrix, produces a glowing white light.[7] In 2006, his group and colleagues at the University of Southampton reported polariton lasing at room-temperature.[8][9]
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