Eric Tournié
Université de Montpellier (UM) is a research-intensive university where education and research cover most of the Scientific and Technological fields. UM gathers around 43,000 students and 4,618 staff with an overall budget of 385 M€. UM is one of the most attractive universities in France with ~6,500 international students (1 out of 6 students and half of 1,700 PhD students come from abroad) and 9 international laboratories. Within UM, the work will be performed at Institut d’Electronique et des Systèmes (IES), a joint research unit between CNRS and UM. IES is the world leader in the field of InAs-QCLs that have been developed for ~20 years, and it is at the state of the art regarding ICLs. Recent work includes the demonstration of longwave QCLs operating at room temperature, and the first QCLs and ICLs grown on Si substrates with performances comparable to devices grown on their native substrates. UM operates 3 MBE systems dedicated to the growth of InAs- and GaSb-based heterostructures, a 300 m² clean room for device fabrication and several labs for electro-optical characterization of the devices. IES is the recipient of two grants from the French government’s “Investment for the Future” program. Eric Tournié (M) (ORCID 0000-0002-8177-0810) is a professor of electrical engineering and photonics at University of Montpellier (F), and a senior-member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, 2012 – 2017 and 2023 – 2028). He is a specialist of semiconductor heterostructures for optoelectronics applications. For the last decade his research activity has been centered around the demonstration of new optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared, with a particular focus on the epitaxial integration of III-V devices on Si platforms. He is author/co-author of ~250 papers and ~100 communications at international conferences. Eric obtained his PhD in 1990 from the University of Montpellier (France). From 1990 to 1993 he was a staff member of the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart (Germany). In 1993 he joined Paul-Drude-Institute in Berlin (Germany) before moving to CRHEA/CNRS, Valbonne (France), to work on ZnSe-based heterostructures. In 1999 he initiated a program on GaInNAs heterostructures and devices. In 2002 he was recruited as a Professor by the University of Montpellier (F). From 2005 to 2019 he was head of the “mid-infrared devices” group in the EE department (IES, UMR CNRS 5214). From Oct. 1st, 2019, to April 30th, 2020, he was a JSPS Visiting Research Fellow in Prof. Arakawa’s group at the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
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