Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les MAtériaux et la Photonique (UMR 6252)

Professor
Phone : (33) 02 31-45-25-60
alain.braud@ensicaen.fr
Research team : OML

Institution : Université de Caen
Location : Cimap Ensicaen

Short CV

• 1999 : PhD in Physics at the University of CAEN, France (CIRIL Lab- ENSICAEN)
• 1999-2000 : Post-doc position at Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana, USA)
• 2000- 2001 : Researcher at NASA (Hampton, Virginia, USA)
• 2008 : Invited researcher at Boston College (Boston, USA) (US Air Force research contract).
• 2009 : HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches : Post-doctoral degree allowing to supervise PhD students), University of Caen, France.

Research Interests and keywords :

Rare-earth and transition metal doped materials (semiconductors and insulators) for gas sensing, laser, lighting and photovoltaic applications.

• ground-state and excited state spectroscopy of ions in solids
• time–resolved spectroscopy
• pump-probe experiments
• energy transfer processes among ions and between hosts and ions
• laser materials
• electroluminescence
• gas sensing
• crystal field theory.

Research Programs :

Project leader :

• CRISTALIN (Research Contract with LMJ, 2019-2022)
• DEMETO (Innovation Grant, 2018-2020)
• OPTIGAS ANR (2016-2019)
• TOUTOPTIK (BpiFrance, innovation grant, 2015-2017)
• COPTEX (MI-CNRS, 2013-2014)
• NACOSOL (CEA-DSM, 2013-2015)
• CNRS Belarus-France (2007-2010)
• US Air Force Contract (2007-2008)

Leader for the CIMAP Lab in the ADEME COPTIK project (2014-2017)
Task leader in European Project (RENIBEL 2004-2007)