Welcome to SPEC! We are the Condensed Matter Physics laboratory of IRAMIS (Saclay Institute for Radiation and Matter), a part of the French National Atomic Energy Commission (CEA: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) in Saclay, France. At SPEC, we strive to be at the forefront of fundamental Condensed Matter Physics Research. Our research interests encompass a wide variety of subject matters ranging from nano-to macro-scopic scales and from the most fundamental aspects of science to applications, patents and technology transfer.

Eric Vincent, head of SPEC with  François Daviaud and Jean-Louis Pichard, deputy heads.

Research Activities

The SPEC is organized in 11 groups with scientific activities developing along 5 main research themes. To find out more please visit our research themes page and/or click on groups of your interests found below.

Labs in SPEC

Cryogénie

Groupe 'Magnétisme, Frustration et Désordre'

Groupe Instabilités et Turbulence / Instability and Turbulence Group

Groupe oxydes conducteurs

Laboratoire d'Electronique Moléculaire

LARSIM

Modèles d'objets biologiques

Nanoélectronique / Nanoelectronics

Nanomagnétisme et RMN (CapMag)

Quantronique / Quantronics

Théorie des systèmes complexes/Theory of complex systems

Past Research Activity Reports

1998-2000 (PDF 3 Mo)

2000-2003 (PDF 9 Mo)

2003-2007 (PDF 28 Mo)

Our 10 most recent publications

Upcoming seminars

Scientific and Technological Collaborations

SPEC is involved in many collaborations, within the CEA and at the national and international levels: examples of our past and present collaboration research projects.