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MEM laboratory offers a unique and coherent set of techniques for material exploration. It is able to provide comprehensive and concrete answers to materials or processes problems.
It is composed of five teams whose thematic areas focus on a specific technique or type of experimental technique:
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L_SIM team: Numerical simulation laboratory, using ab initio codes (DFT, tight binding, …).
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LEMMA team: Advanced electron microscopies and ion beams laboratory (ultimate TEM, strain measurements, holography, chemical analysis).
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MDN team: Neutron diffraction laboratory - Triple axis inelastic scattering, magnetic scattering (running of CRG instruments at ILL).
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NRX team: Nanostructures and X-Rays. Studies of nanostructures using laboratory and synchrotron X-rays(ESRF).
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RM team: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory. Development of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization/Magic Angle Spinning techniques for solid state NMR.
The expertise and experimental tools of the MEM teams are an essential part of the Grenoble Nano-Characterization Platform (PFNC) and other collaborative research groups (CRGs) in Grenoble, including large facilities such as the ILL for neutrons and the ESRF for synchrotron X-rays.