DYNACOM
Dynamic Control of Materials
Date of creation: 2022
CNRS Institute: CNRS Physics
French co-director: Eric COLLET
Japanese partner: The University of Tokyo
Japanese director: Shin’ichi OHKOSHI
Expected staff: 16 professors and associate professors, 8 CNRS researchers and engineers, postdoctoral fellows, PhD Students and Master students.
Kick-off ceremony of the laboratory in Tokyo, in February 2023.
Insulating-metal phase transition in Ti3O5.
OVERVIEW
DYNACOM (Dynamical Control of Materials) is an International Research Laboratory (IRL) between the CNRS, the University of Tokyo and University of Rennes. It is located in Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan. It also involves the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Tohoku University, the Kyoto University in Japan, and the University of Nantes in France.
DYNACOM results from a long-standing collaboration between Japan and France, started in 1996. The IM-LED International Research Project was created in 2016 to enhance this collaboration, which extends now to a higher level with the creation of the DYNACOM IRL in 2022.
Research activities are focused on developing new functionalities of materials. The goal is to drive materials into out-of-equilibrium conditions by using light excitation and/or electric field for controlling diverse physical properties such a ferroelectricity, magnetism, conductivity or optical properties, with photonic applications.
The DYNACOM IRL aims to develop 3 types of physical controls to drive ultra-fast, coherent and cooperative transformations of materials. These are based on various types of optical excitations using UV, visible, infrared or terahertz light. In this way, we are developing different ways for acting on materials based on control of electrons, phonons or elastic deformations, with a multiscale approach from molecules to materials.
Our goal is to develop new processes for enhancing materials’ efficiency in response to external stimuli. This international cooperation benefits from the expertise of the partners in synthesizing advanced materials and developing advanced methods for characterizing and tuning their physical properties on ultrafast timescale.
RESEARCH TOPICS
- Photoactive materials
- Multi-ferroic materials
- Insulating-metal transition
- Charge-transfer-based functions
- Optical control and selective electronic excitation
- Control of phonons
- Elastic lattice deformation
PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS AND LABORATORIES
IN FRANCE
- CNRS Physics
- University of Rennes
IN JAPAN
- The University of Tokyo
OTHER COLLABORATORS
IN FRANCE
- University of Nantes
IN JAPAN
- Tohoku University
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Kyoto University