Research at l’Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR – UMR CNRS 6226) covers various fields: health and well-being, sustainable chemistry and processes, environment, energy, optics and photonics, electronics and molecular materials. Within ISCR, the Glass&Ceramics team has a long-standing commitment and international recognition in the manufacture of chalcogenide glasses and chalcogenide thin films for photonic applications (sensors, mid-IR sources, ONL, phase-change materials). ISCR's role will be to select chalcogenide target and film compositions for use as phase change materials (PCMs), optimize deposition by RF magnetron sputtering and co-sputtering to meet the required specificities, and carry out physico-chemical characterizations of the materials developed, drawing on ScanMAT's core infrastructure. ISCR will benefit from close collaboration with a Czech university (UPCE) via a memorandum of understanding allowing access to their equipment for characterizing the chalcogenides required for the MACIEO project.

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