The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
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The internship will take place at the one of the key platform of the Leti institute, the Nanocharacterisation Platform of CEA-Grenoble (PFNC), one of Europe’s leading centres for the advanced characterization of nanomaterials.
Intrumentation, metrology and control
Internship
Reproducible elemental quantification of technological materials by photoemission H/F
The development of advanced electronic components requires a thorough understanding of the elemental composition of the constituent thin-film materials at the micro- and nanometer scale. This internship focuses on the physical aspects of X-ray photoemission to gain better understanding about reproducible quantification with uncertainties of 5% and below.
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Among the analytical techniques available in cleanrooms and laboratories, hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) is gaining ground due to its ability to perform non-destructive measurements below the surface and deeper at the sub-surface to adress buried layers. This internship addresses the major challenge, within the international community in the field, of high-precision quantification in HAXPES, based on recent methodologies using both intensity calibration with a spectrometer transmission function and core-line intensity determination using Tougaard background substraction. The internship will focus on refining the intensity determination by incorporating physical data describing the energy losses of photoelectrons in the materials under investigation.
Hard X-ray photoemission spectrometer/dedicated quantification softwares
Master 2 Materials Science, Condensed Matter Physics or equivalent. An interest in carrying out physical measurements on ultra-high-vacuum systems (either commercial or home-made ones), analysing spectroscopic data using dedicated software, and working as part of a team within a multi-partner collaboration involving an academic laboratory (the Paris Institute of Nanosciences) and a British standards institute (the National Physical Laboratory).
Grenoble
France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Isère (38)
Grenoble
Bac+5 - Master 2
Materials Science and Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics
Oui
01/02/2027
The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission ("Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives"). It is a public body established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives: To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future.
The CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research.
The civilian programs of the CEA received 49% of their funding from the French government, and 30% from external sources (partner companies and the European Union).
The CEA had a budget of 4,3 billion euros.
The CEA is based in ten research centers in France, each specializing in specific fields. The laboratories are located in the Paris region, the Rhône-Alpes, the Rhône valley, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Aquitaine, Central France and Burgundy. The CEA benefits from the strong regional identities of these laboratories and the partnerships forged with other research centers, local authorities and universities.
