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Study programme 2013-2014

Teaching and training





The Advanced Master in Nanotechnology offers holders of a basic second cycle degree complementary and/or advanced second cycle training in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is intended for, on the one hand, those who do not have any training in this field and who wish to specialise in it, or on the other hand, for those who have already taken an option in this field during their Master’s and who wish to further their training with a specialisation in another area of nanotechnology, e.g. an electrical engineer wanting to further his/her training in nano-biotechnology.

 

The Advanced Master in Nanotechnology is a program of 60 credits organised around five main areas of specialisation:

 

- nanophysics: quantum phenomena, molecular transportation, spintronics, simulation, physical characterisations ...

- nanochemistry: synthesis of nanoparticles, chemical and physico-chemical characterisation, quantum chemistry

- nanoelectronics: micro and nanoelectronics, MEMS, NEMS, electronic characterisation ...

- nanomaterials : nanocomposites, nanofils, nanotubes, nanomedicine, biocaptors ...

 

This program is also intended to train students in the multidisciplinary aspect of nanotechnology. To this end it puts the accent on the different approaches used in these fields : knowledge of basic phenomena at the nano level, nanomanufacturing or the synthesis of nanostructures, the characterisation of nanostructures and the modelling and numeric simulation at the nano level

 

It also aims to make stuents aware of the impact on society of nanotechnology by way of interdisciplinary seminars on the following themes : ethics, enonomic perspectives, applications of nanotechnology, toxicity of nanomaterials ...


On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
1. mener à son terme une démarche multidisciplinaire de recherche appliquée à la conception et à la fabrication d’un objet fonctionnel dont la taille se situe entre 1 et 100 nm et notamment d'être en mesure d'appliquer au moins deux des quatre compétences suivantes :

2. appliquer la démarche complète de recherche au développement d’un objet fonctionnel dans l'un des domaines suivants : nanophysique, nanochimie, nanoélectronique, nanomatériaux, nanobiotechnologies ;

3. estimer l’impact des nanotechnologies sur l’environnement, la santé, le développement économique, l’emploi ;

4. organiser son travail de recherche, en équipe de laboratoire, pour le mener à bien