Odile Stéphan 24th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2016

Odile Stéphan

Odile Stéphan is a Professor of physics at University Paris-Sud and an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is currently leading the STEM group at the Orsay Solid State Physics Laboratory. Her research interests span from growth mechanisms to optical and electronic properties of various nanostructures and nanomaterials. She focuses on the development and the use of Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and derived innovative spectroscopies to probe at the nanometer scale the structural electronic and optical properties of original nanostructures like nanotubes and related nanostructures (C and hybrids), nanophotonics objects, molecular magnets or oxide heterostructures and to explore new physics phenomena at low dimensions (plasmon coupling, electron magnetic field confinement and exaltation). She has pioneered the use of EELS on nanotubes to demonstrate heteroatom segregation effects and capillarity driven coating effects in these nanostructures. More recently, she has shown that EELS can be used as an alternative to photonic techniques to probe the optical properties of individual semi-conducting nanotubes and plasmonic nanostructures with unprecedented spatial resolution. She has authored more than 150 publications, including 100 original articles in regular journals.