Welcome to E-Light
International Research Program IRP France Taiwan 2024-2028
The E-Light project is the result of over 15 years of continuous collaboration between the research teams of IS2M (CNRS – Université de Haute-Alsace, France) and NYCU (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan). Since 2009, this partnership has grown through joint research projects, PhD exchanges, co-supervised theses, and strong scientific synergy in the fields of photoactive materials, plasmonics, and advanced nanofabrication.
2018
- Joint participation in the MoST–ANR research meeting in Taipei (September).
2019-2021
- Second MoST–ANR bilateral project:
NIRTRONIC – NIR Laser Direct Writing of Electronic Materials from MOC Precursors (ANR-18-CE24-0028-01). - Co-supervision of Ching-Fu Lin, a PhD student funded by NYCU and Région Grand Est (France).
History of the collaboration between partners
Dr. Olivier Soppera and Prof. Hsiao-Wen Zan have started their collaboration in 2009 Dec. The starting point was a visit of Olivier Soppera at NCTU. In the past years, they visited each other every year, arranged several PhD students’ exchange visiting, and had co-supervised 4 PhD students together. From the very beginning, the collaboration relies on mutual research interests and complimentary specialties. The international collaboration not only strengthens our scientific study but also provides the PhD students a broad-vision and interdisciplinary cultivation platform.
Dr. Soppera’s expertise is photo-chemistry and nano-fabrication technologies based on optical approaches. Prof. Zan aims to develop novel solid-state electronic devices, particularly using solution process to develop low-cost transistors and sensors for bio-medical applications. Interdisciplinary collaboration stimulated our thoughts and helped to learn from each other. In the past years, we together explored the new field on photo direct write electronics, which greatly facilitates the development of wearable electronics and flexible bendable sensors for Internet-of-Things (IoTs) applications. We investigated the in-depth science of the photo-induced material reaction and the resulting electrical property, also demonstrated several successful applications on photo-write transparent electrodes and on photo-write transistors.
Despite the impossibility to plan visits the years 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic situation, we maintained the collaboration at distance very active with co-supervised PhD students.
All the work done together was recently rewarded with the « Grand Prix Scientifique 2022 Franco-Taiwanais de l’Académie des Sciences ».
Key Milestones
2009
- First meeting between the two teams.
Dr. Olivier Soppera visited the Department of Photonics at NYCU and was received by Prof. Hsiao-Wen Zan.
2011-2012
- Launch of a 2-year Orchid Project, funded by MoST (Taiwan) and the French Institute in Taipei.
- Two PhD students took part in research visits: Ming-Chi Dai and Chang-Hong Lee.
2014-2015
- Start of a 2-year CNRS Joint Research Project, co-funded by MoST and CNRS.
- Exchange of two PhD students: Hong-Cheng Lin and Fabrice Stehlin.
- Fabrice Stehlin received the Renatech Thesis Prize.
- Kuang-Hsun Wang received a Student Paper Award at OPTIC 2014.
2015-2018
- Launch of a MoST–ANR bilateral research project:
PHOTOMOC – Metal Oxo-Clusters as Building Blocks for Semiconductor Micro/Nano-Patterning (ANR-14-CE26-0039). - Three co-supervised PhD students and one PhD exchange program:
Chun-Cheng Yeh, Shang-Yu Yu, Po-Yi Chang, and Ming-Yen Chuang. - Hung-Chuan Liu received a Student Paper Award at OPTIC 2016.
2018
- Joint participation in the MoST–ANR research meeting in Taipei (September).
2019-2021
- Second MoST–ANR bilateral project:
NIRTRONIC – NIR Laser Direct Writing of Electronic Materials from MOC Precursors (ANR-18-CE24-0028-01). - Co-supervision of Ching-Fu Lin, a PhD student funded by NYCU and Région Grand Est (France).
2020
- March: S.-Y. Yu awarded Best PhD Thesis Prize by Université de Haute-Alsace.
- May: Signature of a Master student exchange agreement between UHA and NYCU.
- S.-Y. Yu also received the Lam Research Dissertation and Thesis Award.
2022
2024
- January: Launch of the E-Light CNRS International Research Project, formalizing and expanding the bilateral collaboration.