Mylène Sauty

Fonction

Chercheur au Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives CEA 

Sujets de recherche

Domaines

  • Propriétés opto-électroniques des matériaux et dispositifs à base de semi-conducteurs nitrures
  • Localisation des ondes dans les milieux désordonnés

Techniques expérimentales

  • LEEM/PEEM/EEM – Low Energy Electron Microscopy, PhotoEmission Electron Microscopy, ElectroEmission Microscopy
  • STL – Scanning Tunneling electroLuminescence
  • Spectroscopie et microscopie d’absorption transitoire

CV

2023 –

Chercheur CEA

2023

Post-doctorat, Cavendish Laboratory, Université de Cambridge, UK, équipe d’Akshay Rao

2019 – 2022

Thèse de doctorat, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (PMC), École polytechnique, Direction Jacques Peretti et Claude Weisbuch
« Study of the impact of alloy disorder on the electronic and optical properties of nitride semiconductor compounds and of their heterostructures ».

2016 – 2019

Master ICFP, Matière Condensée, ENS Paris

  • Stage M1 (6 mois), LBNL, Berkeley, USA, encadrement Andreas Schmid
  • Stage M2 (4 mois), PMC, École polytechnique, encadrement Jacques Peretti

2017 – 2018

Agrégation de Physique-Chimie option Physique, rang 3/72

2015 – 2016

Licence de Physique Fondamentale, ENS Paris

2015

Admission à l’École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, fonctionnaire-stagiaire

Publications scientifiques

[8] Observation of quasibound states in open quantum wells of cesiated 𝑝-doped GaN surfaces, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Rev. B 113, L081301 (2026)

[7] Molecular Engineering of Interlayer Exciton Delocalization in 2D Perovskites, Y. Boeije, F. Lie, M. Dubajić, E. Garip, A. Maufort, R.-I. Biega, S. Lenaers, M. Sauty et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147 (35), 31541-31557 (2025)

[6] Investigation of the cesium activation of GaN photocathodes by low-energy
electron microscopy
, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 22, 034005 (2024)

[5] Injection mechanisms in a III-nitride light-emitting diode as seen by self-emissive electron microscopy, T. Tak, C. W. Johnson, W. Y. Ho, F. Wu, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 20, 064045 (2023)

[4] Steady-state junction current distribution in p-n GaN diodes measured using low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM), W. Y. Ho, C. W. Johnson, T. Tak, M. Sauty et al., Appl. Phys. Letters 123, 031101 (2023)

[3] Nanoscale mapping of sub-gap electroluminescence from step-bunched, oxidized 4H-SiC surfaces, N. Alyabyeva, J. Ding, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Status Solidi B 2200356 (2022)

[2] Probing local emission properties in InGaN/GaN quantum wells by scanning tunneling luminescence microscopy, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Status Solidi B 2200365 (2022)

[1] Localization effect in photoelectron transport induced by alloy disorder in nitride semiconductor compounds, M. Sauty et al., Phys. Rev. Letters 129, 216602 (2022)

Financements

  • 2026 – ICARE – Imaging carrier transport and recombination in III-nitride devices, ANR JCJC
  • 2026 – STELLAR – Scanning Tunneling ElectroLuminescence of assembled molecuLAR networks, PSiNano, Paris-Saclay
  • 2025 – Thèse CFR, CEA – Electronic processes in nitride LEDs: interplay between spatial heterogeneities and efficiencies
  • 2024 – MiSpeLED – Micro-Spectroscopie des LED nitrures, PhOM, Graduate School de Physique, Université Paris-Saclay