post-doc

This post-doctorate is part of the ANR SpinodalDesign project. It involves three French groups: the GPM (Groupe de Physique des Matériaux – UMR 6634, host laboratory for this post-doctorate), the UMET in Lille and SIMAP in Grenoble. In the framework of this project, we are developing an original way of achieving high mechanical strength by combining an ultra-fine granular structure and spinodal decomposition. The post-doctoral fellow will conduct a microstructural characterization of new high-performance alloys hardened in this way.

The search for thermoelectric materials is an active topic, and promising new families such as chalcogenides have emerged in recent years with the figure of merit ZT reaching 1 or above. One of the possible tuning parameters of ZT in chalcogenides containing transition-metal cations is magnetism which can modify the transport parameters through a modification of the band structure and/or a modification of the entropy of the material.