Jean-Sébastien Lauret
New junior member (2015) of the Institut Universitaire de France
Jean-Sébastien Lauret is one of the new members of the Institut Universitaire de France for 2015.
Jean-Sébastien Lauret devotes his research at the Aimé Cotton Laboratory, an ENS Cachan-Université Paris Sud-CNRS joint research unit, to the study of light-matter interactions.
He focuses on the linear and non-linear optical properties of semiconductor nanomaterials, the effects of confinement and the dynamics of electronic interactions.
"My research project concerns the potential of carbon nanotubes as quantum emitters of light at telecommunication wavelengths," he explains.
Institut Universitaire de France
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