Learning objectives :

The person recruited will teach in materials characterisation, general physics (strength of materials, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics) and optics. The teaching will be in French and potentially in English. The teaching will include both theoretical and practical aspects (lectures, tutorials, practical work).

Need for support :
The person recruited will be part of the Polytech Lille teaching team and will have to be involved in supervising students (projects and placements) and work-study students (apprentices and professional training contracts). She or he will also have to get involved in the organisation of the school by taking part in certain activities (open days, forums, research days, setting up training courses, industrial projects, etc.) and certain teaching responsibilities (head of year, internships, projects, recruitment, etc.).

The aim of this recruitment profile is to strengthen the laboratory's research activities in these areas. The research profile may concern the following two target profiles:
- deposition of ultimate thin films and characterisation of their electronic and/or electrochemical properties;
- microscopy and near-field spectroscopy of molecular systems.

Research projects or profiles at the interface between these two target profiles will be given full consideration. Generally speaking, the candidate should have a solid knowledge of materials science (physics and/or chemistry of materials), ultra-thin film or molecular deposition, structural and electronic characterisation (e.g. X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy [AFM], electronic spectroscopy techniques).

The research theme of the post will be :

• or focused on studying the structure/property relationships of thin films grown by magnetron sputtering and/or atomic layer deposition (ALD). In this sense, the growth mechanisms need to be elucidated in real time (in situ analysis) in order to control the porosity / density of these thin films, to control their structures and microstructures, to modulate their electrochemical, electrical and mechanical properties and to control the solid / solid or solid / liquid interfaces within Li-ion micro-batteries, micro-supercapacitors or all-solid state batteries. The person recruited will be involved in setting up combined real-time analyses (measurement of thickness, stress, resistivity, plasma analysis) on deposition equipment to monitor these growth modes. It will also take part in analysis campaigns on large instruments. She will develop thin films using a combinatorial approach in order to synthesise new materials (ternary transition metal nitrides, two-dimensional materials, etc.). To carry out all these studies, it will use the deposition equipment available at the IEMN's micro-nano-fabrication centre (CMNF) and the near-field microscopy centre (in particular atomic force microscopy) of the characterisation platform (PCMP);
• or focused on the study of molecular monolayers (ranging from isolated molecules to molecular self-assemblies) with, among other things, the aim of creating functional systems (e.g. optical or electrical molecular switches). The aim will be to develop nanocharacterisation experiments to understand the fundamental properties (structural or electronic) of such systems, ranging from AFM microscopy in ambient air (e.g. in electrical modes such as conducting-AFM and/or Kelvin probe microscopy), and/or ultimate AFM microscopy in an ultra-high vacuum environment, at low temperature, possibly under a magnetic field, for example via non-contact AFM measurements at atomic or sub-molecular resolution, or by measuring charge transfers on a sub-nanometric or sub-molecular scale using Kelvin probe microscopy. The person recruited should have solid expertise in near-field microscopy. He or she will also be able to draw on the expertise of the near-field microscopy unit of the IEMN's characterisation platform (PCMP).
• or at the interface of the two previous themes.

Expected responsibilities:
Set up scientific projects and submit funding applications. In the medium term, involvement in the structure and collective life of the laboratory.

• Experimental physics ;
• Thin films ;
• Materials ;
• Solid state physics ;
• Atomic force microscopy ;
• Thermodynamics ;
• Chemistry ;
• Physics ;
• Growth of thin films ;
• Functional thin films ;
• Ion-matter interaction ;
• Ion-surface interaction ;
• Electrochemistry ;
• Physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces ;
• Energy storage ;
• Molecular materials ;
• Structural, electrical and magnetic characterisation.

Research fields :

• Applied physics ;
• Solid state physics ;
• Instrumentation technology ;
• Thermodynamics ;
• Surface physics ;
• Chemical physics.

• Christophe DELERUE, Member of the IEMN management team
  Telephone: +33 (0)6 47 31 02 09
  E-mail: christophe.delerue@iemn.fr
  Website :www.iemn.fr

 Teaching :

• Dorothée BERNARD, Head of Production - Polytech Lille
  Telephone: +33 (0)3 20 41 75 22
  E-mail: dorothee.bernard@polytech-lille.fr
  Website: www.polytech-lille.fr

Administrative :

• Teacher Recruitment and Mobility Office
  Telephone: +33 (0)3 62 26 95 39 / +33 (0)3 62 26 95 47 / +33 (0)3 62 26 95 38 / +33 (0)3 62 26 97 04
  E-mail: recrutement-mobilite-enseignants@univ-lille.fr
  Website: https://www.univ-lille.fr/universite/travailler-a-luniversite/