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Nanoscience and Femtoscience

Nanoscience and Femtoscience

Research in nanoscience and femtoscience is exploding, and a number of teams at INRS are part of the effort to create nanomaterials and nanostructures scaled and assembled in a way that optimizes their properties. Our research teams are developing and improving microfabrication and nanofabrication processes and ultrafast light sources and measurement technologies, as well as pursuing research on molecular photonics.

Our research teams are developing and improving microfabrication and nanofabrication processes and ultrafast light sources and measurement technologies, as well as pursuing research on molecular photonics.

Their contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of nanoscience and advanced materials as well as femtoscience and ultrafast photonics have earned global recognition.

Research teams have studied and developed ultra-high-performance materials such as vanadium dioxide for aerospace and other applications, a high-performance hybrid composed of carbon nanotubes, a micromechanical devices for the storage and restitution of mechanical energy, a new multiferroic material used in microsystems and photovoltaic devices and the production of integrated magnetoelectric microwave resonators.

Nanoscience and advanced materials

INRS researchers are developing advanced materials with remarkable electronic, photonic, chemical, and electromechanical properties that allow for the production of cutting-edge devices.

Femtoscience and ultrafast photonics

Faculty at the centre are helping master radiation sources ranging from x-rays to terahertz waves. These sources open the door to exciting possibilities for imaging and the characterization of matter and for biomedical applications. They are also conducting fundamental research on the purely optical processing of ultrafast optical signals.