Overview

Full Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes

Research activities:

• Local probe tunnel spectroscopy of hybrid superconductors and superconducting semiconductors
• Mesoscopic transport in superconducting hybrid nanostructures
• Quantum thermodynamics of electronic devices
• AFM-STM combined microscopy at very low temperature

Teaching activities at the Université Grenoble Alpes, PhITEM department:

• Practicals at the Interuniversity Center for Micro-Electronics CIME Nanotech,
• Director of the European School On Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (ESONN),
• Lecture “Near-field microscopies” at the Nanosciences – Nanotechnologies master.

at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble:

• “Advanced microscopies” lecture for the international Master in Micro and NanoTechnologies for Integrated Systems.

Recent publications (full list here):

• “Single Quantum Dot Heat Valve”, B. Dutta et al, Physical Review Letters 125, 237701 (2020), Editor’s suggestion.
• “Imaging tunable quantum Hall broken-symmetry orders in charge-neutral graphene”, A. Coissard et al, Nature 605, 51-56 (2022).
• “Quantum confinement suppressing electronic heat flow below the Wiedemann-Franz law”, D. Majidi et al, Nano Lett. 22, 630 (2022).
• “Calorimetry of a Phase Slip in a Josephson Junction”, E. Gumus et al, Nature Physics 19, 196-200 (2023).
• “Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions”, H. Vignaud et al, Nature 624, 545–550 (2023).

Colaborations outside Néel Institute:

• F. Lefloch et al, Pheliqs, CEA Grenoble,
• Ph. Tamarat and B. Lounis, LP2N, Bordeaux,
• J. P. Pekola, Aalto University, Helsinki,
• A. K. Gupta, IIT Kanpur, India.

Recent projects:

• ITN Q-NET pour Quantum Nano-Electronics Training (coordination, 2011-15).
• FET open “INFERNOS” (2013-15).
• Marie Curie ITN “QuESTech” (coordination, 2018-21).

Collective responsibilities:

• Associate Director and afterwards Director of Néel Institute (2011-15),
• Member of UGA Board (2016-19),
• Director of the research department Physics-Engineering-Materials (PEM) of Univ. Grenoble Alpes (2016-2019),
• Vice-president for Research and Innovation at Université Grenoble Alpes (2020-2023).

Contact :
herve.courtois (at) neel.cnrs.fr
researcher-id /J-5431-2014
Tel.: +33 (0)476881151
Institut Néel, Room D305, building D.
Postal adress: 25 avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9, France.

Documents

Lecture notes :

“Advanced Microscopies / Nanophysics with local probes” at Master N2 / NanoPhysics (UGA) :

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Addendum on the square barrier model

“Quantum Nano-Electronics” at Master Sciences de la Matière (ENS Lyon) :

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Publication list

Articles

[1] “Phase coherence in a two-dimensional Normal-Superconducting wires array”
H. Courtois, Ph. Gandit and B. Pannetier
Physical Review B 51, 9360-9363 (1995).
[2] “Miniature low-temperature high frequency filters for single-electronics”
H. Courtois, O. Buisson, J. Chaussy and B. Pannetier
Review of Scientific Instruments 66, 3465-3468 (1995).
[3] “Proximity-induced superconductivity in a narrow metallic wire”
H. Courtois, Ph. Gandit and B. Pannetier
Physical Review B 52, 1162-1166 (1995).
[4] “Long-range coherence in a mesoscopic metal near a superconducting interface”
H. Courtois, Ph. Gandit, D. Mailly and B. Pannetier
Physical Review Letters 76, 130-133 (1996), cond-mat/9810339.
[5] “Re-entrance of the metallic conductance in a mesoscopic proximity superconductor”
P. Charlat, H. Courtois, Ph. Gandit, D. Mailly, A. F. Volkov and B. Pannetier
Physical Review Letters 77, 4950-4953 (1996), cond-mat/9605021.
[6] “Superconducting proximity effect in a mesoscopic ferromagnetic wire”
M. Giroud, H. Courtois, K. Hasselbach, D. Mailly and B. Pannetier
Physical Review B Rapid Communications 58, R11872-11875 (1998), cond-mat/9806161.
[7] “Coherent electron transport in a superconducting-normal metallic film”
F. K. Wilhelm, A. D. Zaikin and H. Courtois
Physical Review Letters 80, 4289-4292 (1998), cond-mat/9705225.
[8] “Long-range coherence and mesoscopic transport in N-S metallic structures”
H. Courtois, Ph. Gandit, D. Mailly, and B. Pannetier
Superlattices and Microstructures 25, 820-832 (1999), cond-mat/9810339.
[9] “The spectral conductance of a mesoscopic proximity superconductor and the re-entrance effect”
H. Courtois, P. Charlat, Ph. Gandit, D. Mailly and B. Pannetier
Journal of Low Temperature Physics 116, 187-213 (1999), cond-mat/9902014.
[10] “Andreev reflection and proximity effect”
B. Pannetier and H. Courtois
Journal of Low Temperature Physics 118, 599-615 (2000), cond-mat/9912024
[11] “A very-low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope for the local spectroscopy of mesoscopic structures”
N. Moussy, H. Courtois and B. Pannetier
Review of Scientific Instruments 72, 128-131 (2001). cond-mat/0007128.
[12] “The Josephson critical current in a long mesoscopic S-N-S junction”
P. Dubos, H. Courtois, B. Pannetier, F. Wilhelm, A. Zaikin and G. Schön
Physical Review B 63, 64502 (2001), cond-mat/0008146.
[13] “Local spectroscopy of a proximity superconductor at very low temperature”
N. Moussy, H. Courtois and B. Pannetier
Europhysics Letters 55, 861-866 (2001), cond-mat/0106299.
[14] “Coherent low-energy charge transport in a diffusive S-N-S junction”
P. Dubos, H. Courtois, O. Buisson and B. Pannetier
Physical Review Letters 87, 206801 (2001), cond-mat/0107194.
[15] “Electron transport in a mesoscopic superconducting / ferromagnetic conductor”
M. Giroud, K. Hasselbach, H. Courtois, D. Mailly and B. Pannetier
European Physical Journal B 31, 103-109 (2003), cond-mat/0204140.
[16] “Anomalous density of states in a metallic film in proximity with a superconductor”
A. K. Gupta, L. Crétinon, N. Moussy, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois
Physical Review B 69, 104514 (2004), cond-mat/0312126.
[17] “Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of the superconducting proximity effect in a diluted ferromagnetic alloy”
L. Crétinon, A. K. Gupta, H. Sellier, F. Lefloch, M. Fauré, A. Buzdin and H. Courtois
Physical Review B 72, 024511 (2005), cond-mat/0502050.
[18] “Combined Scanning Force Microscopy and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of an electronic nano-circuit at very low temperature”
J. Senzier, P. S. Luo and H. Courtois
Applied Physics Letters 90, 043114 (2007), cond-mat/0610408.
[19] “Laser induced resonance shifts of single molecules self-coupled by a metallic surface”
O. Labeau, Ph. Tamarat, H. Courtois, G. S. Agarwal and B. Lounis
Physical Review Letters 98, 143003 (2007).
[20] “Phonon Cooling in a Superconductor – Normal Metal – Superconductor Tunnel Junction”
Sukumar Rajauria, P. S. Luo, T. Fournier, F. W. J. Hekking, H. Courtois and B. Pannetier
Physical Review Letters 99, 047004 (2007), cond-mat/0612045.
[21] “Divergence at low bias and down-mixing of the current noise in a diffusive superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction”
E. Lhotel, O. Coupiac, F. Lefloch, H. Courtois and M. Sanquer
Physical Review Letters 99, 117002 (2007), arXiv:0704.3729.
[22] “Andreev Current-Induced Dissipation in a Hybrid Superconducting Tunnel Junction”
Sukumar Rajauria, P. Gandit, T. Fournier, F.W.J. Hekking, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois
Physical Review Letters 100, 207002 (2008), arxiv.org:0802.2427.
[23] “Origin of Hysteresis in Proximity Josephson Junction”
H. Courtois, M. Meschke, J. T. Peltonen and J. P. Pekola
Physical Review Letters 101, 067002 (2008), arXiv:0805.4524.
[24] “Inherent thermometry in superconducting micro-coolers”
H. Courtois, S. Rajauria, P. Gandit, F.W.J. Hekking, and B. Pannetier
Journal of Low Temperature Physics 153, 325 (2008), arXiv:0809.4980.
[25] “Calorimetric readout of a superconducting proximity-effect thermometer”
M. Meschke, J.T. Peltonen, H. Courtois, and J.P. Pekola
Journal of Low Temperature Physics 154, 190-198 (2009), arXiv:0901.1013.
[26] “Spin-valve effect of the spin accumulation resistance in a double superconductor-ferromagnet junction”
P. S. Luo, T. Crozes, B. Gilles, S. Rajauria, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois
Physical Review B Rapid Communications 79, 140508(R) (2009), distinguished as “Editor’s suggestion“, arXiv:0811.4252.
[27] “Quasiparticle diffusion based heating in superconductor tunneling micro-coolers”
S. Rajauria, H. Courtois, and B. Pannetier
Physical Review B 80, 214521 (2009), arXiv:0810.1911.
[28] “Electron cooling by diffusive normal metal – superconductor tunnel junctions”
A. S Vasenko, E. V. Bezuglyi, H. Courtois and F. W. J. Hekking
Physical Review B 81, 094513 (2010), arXiv:0912.4446.
[29] “Spatially-Correlated Microstructure and Superconductivity in Polycrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond”
F. Dahlem, P. Achatz, O. A. Williams, D. Araujo, E. Bustarret, H. Courtois
Physical Review B 82, 033306 (2010), arXiv:0912.3727.
[30] “Subkelvin tunneling spectroscopy showing Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductivity in heavily boron-doped silicon epilayers”
F. Dahlem, T. Kociniewski, C. Marcenat, A. Grockowiak, L. Pascal, P. Achatz, J. Boulmer, D. Débarre, T. Klein, E. Bustarret, H. Courtois
Physical Review B 82, 140505(R) (2010), distinguished as “Editor’s suggestion“, arXiv:1007.3598.
[31] “Hysteresis in superconducting short weak links and micro-SQUIDs”
D. Hazra, L. Pascal, H. Courtois and A. K. Gupta
Physical Review B 82, 184530 (2010), arXiv:1007.3598.
[32] “Circuit approach of photonic heat transport”
L. Pascal, H. Courtois, and F. W. J. Hekking
Physical Review B 83, 125113 (2011), arXiv:1003.3217.
[33] “Noise Correlations in Three-Terminal Diffusive Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor Nanostructures”
B. Kaviraj, O. Coupiac, H. Courtois and F. Lefloch
Physical Review Letters 107, 077005 (2011), arXiv:1104.4211.
[34] “Efficient Quasiparticle Evacuation in Superconducting Devices”
Sukumar Rajauria, L. M. A. Pascal, Ph. Gandit, F. W. J. Hekking, B. Pannetier, H. Courtois
Physical Review B 85, 020505 (2012), arXiv:1106.4949.
[35] “Etching suspended superconducting tunnel junctions from a multilayer”
H. Q. Nguyen, L. M. A. Pascal, Z. H. Peng, O. Buisson, B. Gilles, C. B. Winkelmann and H. Courtois
Applied Physics Letters 100, 252602 (2012), arXiv:1111.3541.
[36] “3D boron distribution in heavily doped silicon epilayers resolved by atom probe tomography”
K. Hoummada, F. Dahlem, T. Kociniewski, J. Boulmer, C. Dubois, G. Prudon, E. Bustarret, H. Courtois, D. Débarre and D. Mangelinck
Applied Physics Letters 101, 182602 (2012), arXiv:1103.4409.
[37] “A subKelvin scanning probe microscope for the electronic spectroscopy of an individual nano-device”
T. Quaglio, F. Dahlem, S. Martin, A. Gérardin, C. Winkelmann and H. Courtois
Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 123702 (2012), arXiv:1209.5502.
[38] “Trapping hot quasi-particles in a high-power electronic cooler”
H. Q. Nguyen, T. Aref, V. J. Kauppila, M. Meschke, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, and J. P. Pekola
New Journal of Physics 15, 085013 (2013), arXiv:1304.1846.
[39] “Niobium-based superconducting nano-devices fabrication using all-metal suspended masks”
S. Samaddar, A. Fay, B. Sacépé, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann
Nanotechnology 24, 75304 (2013), arXiv:1304.5381.
[40] “Existence of an independent phonon bath in a quantum device”
L. M. A. Pascal, A. Fay, C. B. Winkelmann and H. Courtois
Physical Review B Rapid Communication 88, 100502(R) (2013), arXiv:1301.3612.
[41] “Modulating charge density and inelastic optical response in graphene by atmospheric pressure localized intercalation through wrinkles”
A. Kimouche, O. Renault, S. Samaddar, C. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, O. Fruchart, J. Coraux
Carbon (2013), arXiv:1311.1357.
[42] “Long-ranged magnetic proximity effects in noble metal-doped cobalt probed with spin-dependent tunneling”
M. S. Gabureac, D. Mac Laren, H. Courtois and C. H. Marrows
New Journal of Physics 16, 043008 (2014), arXiv:1404.6565.
[43] “Superconducting cascade electron refrigerator”
M. Camarasa-Gomez, A. di Marco, F. W. J. Hekking, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, F. Giazotto
Applied Physics Letters 104, 192601 (2014), arXiv:1404.4701.
[44] “Sub-Gap Structure in a Three-Terminal Josephson Junction Conductance”
A. H. Pfeffer, J. E. Duvauchelle, H. Courtois, R. Mélin, D. Feinberg, F. Lefloch
Physical Review B 90, 075401 (2013), arXiv:1307.4862.
[45] “Sub-50 mK electronic cooling with superconducting tunnel junctions”
H. Q. Nguyen, M. Meschke, H. Courtois, J. P. Pekola
Physical Review – Applied 2, 054001 (2013), arXiv:1402.5872 (2014).
[46] “Disorder and screening in decoupled graphene on a metallic substrate”
S. Martin, B. Sacépé, A. Kimouche, J. Coraux, F. Fuchs, B. Grévin, H. Courtois and C. B. Winkelmann
Physical Review B Rapid Communication 91, 041406 (2015), arXiv:1304.1183.
[47] “Reversibility Of Superconducting Nb Weak Links Driven By The Proximity Effect In A Quantum Interference Device”
Nikhil Kumar, T. Fournier, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann, and Anjan K. Gupta
Physical Review Letters 114, 157003 (2015), arXiv:1411.7196.
[48] “Controlling hysteresis in superconducting constrictions with a resistive shunt”
Nikhil Kumar, C. B. Winkelmann, Sourav Biswas, H. Courtois and Anjan K. Gupta
Superconductor Science and Technology 28, 072003 (2015), arXiv:1503.05664.
[49] “Probing Hybridization of a Single Energy Level Coupled to Superconducting Leads”
D. M. T. van Zanten, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann
Physical Review B 92, 184501 (2015), arXiv:1506.07695.
[50] “Charge Puddles in Graphene Near the Dirac Point”
S. Samaddar, I. Yudhistira, S. Adam, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann
Physical Review Letters 116, 126804 (2016), Editor’s suggestion, arXiv:1512.05304.
[51] “Single quantum level electron turnstile”
D. M. T. van Zanten, I. Khaymovich, D. Basko, J. P. Pekola, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann
Physical Review Letters 116, 166801 (2016), Editor’s suggestion, arXiv:1601.02469.
[52] “Interplay Between Electron Over-Heating and ac Josephson Effect”
A. de Cecco, K. Le Calvez, B. Sacépé, C. B. Winkelmann and H. Courtois
Physical Review B 93, 180505 (2016), arXiv:1601.04434.
[53] “High-performance electronic cooling with superconducting tunnel junctions”
H. Courtois, H. Q. Nguyen, C. B. Winkelmann, J. P. Pekola
Compte-Rendus de Physique 17, 1139 (2016), arXiv:1608.06410.
[54] “Equal variations of Fermi level and work function in graphene at the nanoscale”
S. Samaddar, J. Coraux, S. C. Martin, B. Grévin, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann
Nanoscale 8, 15162 (2016).
[55] “Thermal Conductance of a Single-Electron Transistor”
B. Dutta, J. Peltonen, D. S. Antonenko, M. Meschke, M. A. Skvortsov, B. Kubala, J. Konig, C. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, J. P. Pekola
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077701 (2017), Editor’s suggestion, arXiv:1704.02622.
[56] “Josephson Coupling in the Dissipative State of a Thermally Hysteretic µ-SQUID”
S. Biswas, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, A. K. Gupta
Phys. Rev. B 98, 174514 (2018), arXiv:1709.02569.
[57] “Mesoscopic electron transport and atomic gases, a review of Frank W. J. Hekking’s scientific work”
L. Amico, D. M. Basko, S. Bergeret, O. Buisson, H. Courtois, R. Fazio, W. Guichard, A. Minguzzi, J. Pekola, G. Schon
SciPost Phys. 5, 009 (2018). arXiv:1804.06213.
[58] “Direct Probe of the Seebeck Coefficient in a Kondo-Correlated Single-Quantum-Dot Transistor”
B. Dutta, D. Majidi, A. García Corral, P. A. Erdman, S. Florens, T. A. Costi, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann
Nano Letters 19, 506 (2019), arXiv:1811.04219.
[59] “Joule overheating poisons the fractional ac Josephson effect in topological Josephson junctions”
K. Le Calvez, L. Veyrat, F. Gay, P. Plaindoux, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, and B. Sacépé
Comm. Phys. 2, 4 (2019), arXiv:1803.07674.
[60] “Non-Linear Thermovoltage in a Single-Electron Transistor”
P. A. Erdman, J. T. Peltonen, B. Bhandari, B. Dutta, H. Courtois, R. Fazio, F. Taddei, J. P. Pekola
Physical Review B 99, 165405 (2019), arXiv:1812.06514.
[61] “Fully tunable quantum interference patterns in a tandem Josephson Junction”
Stefano Guiducci, Matteo Carrega, Fabio Taddei, Giorgio Biasiol, Hervé Courtois, Stefan Heun
Physical Review B 99, 235419 (2019), arXiv:1903.02819.
[62] “Magnetic-Field-Induced Transition in a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Superconductor”
A. Garcia Corral, D. M. T. van Zanten, K. J. Franke, H. Courtois, S. Florens, C. B. Winkelmann
Physical Review Research 2, 012065(R) (2019). arXiv:1912.04084.
[63] “Elimination of thermal bistability in superconducting weak links by an inductive shunt”
S. Biswas, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, T. Dauxois, H. Biswas, and A. K. Gupta
Physical Review B 101, 024501 (2020), arXiv:1807.07720.
[64] “Non-invasive Nanoscale Potentiometry and Ballistic Transport in Epigraphene Nanoribbons”
A. De Cecco, V. Prudkovskiy, D. Wander, R. Ganguly, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, H. Courtois and C. B. Winkelmann
Nano Letters 20, 3786 (2020), arXiv:2002.11024.
[65] “A Single-Quantum-Dot Heat Valve”
B. Dutta, D. Majidi, N. W. Talarico, N. Lo Gullo, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois
Physical Review Letters 125, 237701 (2020), Editor’s suggestion, arXiv:2001.08183.
[66] “Stochastic resonance in thermally bistable superconducting weak-links”
S. Paul, G. Kotagiri, R. Ganguly, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann, and A. K. Gupta
Physical Review Applied 15, 024009 (2021), arXiv:2010.13349.
[67] “Quantum confinement suppressing electronic heat flow below the Wiedemann-Franz law”
D. Majidi, M. Josefsson, M. Kumar, M. Leijnse, L. Samuelson, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann, and V. F. Maisi
Nano Lett. 22, 630 (2022), arXiv:2106.06229.
[68] “Imaging tunable quantum Hall broken-symmetry orders in charge-neutral graphene”
A. Coissard, D. Wander, H. Vignaud, A. G. Grushin, C. Repellin, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Gay, C. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, H. Sellier, B. Sacépé
Nature 605, 51-56 (2022), arXiv:2110.02811.
[69] “Magnetization reversal across multiple serial barriers in a single Fe3O4 nanoparticle”
S. Paul, G. Kotagiri, R. Ganguly, A. Subramanian, H. Courtois, C. B. Winkelmann, and A. K. Gupta
Physical Review B 105, L180410 (2022), arXiv:2201.09011.
[70] “Calorimetry of a quantum phase slip”
E. Gümüs, D. Majidi, D. Nikolic, P. Raif, B. Karimi, J. T. Peltonen, E. Scheer, J. P. Pekola, H. Courtois, W. Belzig, and C. B. Winkelmann
Nature Physics 19, 196–200 (2023), arXiv:2202.08726.
[71] “Absence of edge reconstruction for quantum Hall edge channels in graphene devices”
A. Coissard, A. G. Grushin, C. Repellin, L. Veyrat, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Gay, H. Courtois, H. Sellier, and B. Sacépé
Science Advances 9, 7227 (2023), arXiv:03919523 .
[72] “Evidence for chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions”
H. Vignaud, D. Perconte, W. Yang, B. Kousar, E. Wagner, F. Gay, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Courtois, Z. Han, H. Sellier, and B. Sacépé
Nature 624, 545–550 (2023), arXiv:04103168.

Book

Mémo visuel de physique, G. Faini, H. Courtois, S. Matzen, C. Py, P. Seneor, for Bachelor and CAPES students, éditions Dunod (2017), second edition (2020) (have a look here).

Group PhD manuscripts

[1] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Norbert Moussy:
“Nanospectroscopie par microscopie à effet tunnel à très basse température de jonctions supraconductrices hybrides”
defended on October 23th 2000, Grenoble (download here).
[2] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Pascal Dubos directed by Bernard Pannetier:
“Transport électronique dans des nano jonctions supraconducteur – métal normal – supraconducteur”
defended on October 27th, 2000, Grenoble (download here).
[3] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Pierre Charlat directed by Bernard Pannetier:
“Transport et cohérence quantique dans des nanocircuits hybrides supraconducteur – métal”
defended on September 23th, 1997, Grenoble (download here).
[4] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Laurent Crétinon:
“Nanospectroscopie par microscopie à effet tunnel à très basse température de jonctions supraconductrices hybrides”
defended on December 20th 2004, Grenoble (download here).
[5] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Julien Senzier:
“Spectroscopie locale de nanostructures supraconductrices par microscopie combinée AFM-STM à très basse température”
defended on May 4th 2007, Grenoble (download here).
[6] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Sukumar Rajauria:
“Refroidissement électronique à base de jonctions tunnel supraconductrices”
defended on November 14th, 2008, Grenoble (download here).
[7] PhD thesis of Université Joseph Fourier of Thomas Quaglio:
“Spectroscopies locales sur des nanostructures hybrides hors équilibre”
defended on january 19th, 2012, Grenoble (download here).
[8] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Laetitia Pascal:
“Electronic refrigeration and thermal coupling in superconducting hybrid devices”
defended on March 31st, 2012, Grenoble (download here).
[9] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Sylvain Martin, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Systèmes nanoélectroniques hybrides: cartographies de la densité d’états locale”
defended on December 13th, 2012, Grenoble (download here).
[10] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of David van Zanten, directed with Clemens Winkelmann: 
“Quantum dynamics revealed in weakly coupled quantum dot – superconductor turnstiles”
defended on June 1st, 2015, Grenoble (download here).
[11] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Sayanti Samaddar, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Désordre de charge et écrantage dans le graphène”
defended on October 23rd, 2015, Grenoble (download here).
[12] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Kevin Le Calvez, directed with Benjamin Sacépé:
“Signatures of a 4pi periodic Andreev bound state in topological Josephson junctions”
defended on April 12th, 2017, Grenoble (download here).
[13] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Alessandro de Cecco, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Quantum electronics in nanostructures explored by Scanning Probe Microscopy”
defended on October 10th, 2018, Grenoble (download here).
[14] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Bivas Dutta, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Energetics in Metallic-Island and Quantum-Dot based Single-Electron Devices”
defended on November 19th, 2018, Grenoble (download here).
[15] PhD thesis of the Université Grenoble Alpes of Alvaro Garcia-Corral, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in superconductor-quantum dot transistors made by electromigration”
defended on October 19th, 2020, Grenoble (download here).
[16] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Alexis Coissard, directed with Benjamin Sacépé:
“Les états fondamentaux du graphène en régime Hall quantique et leurs canaux de bord”
defended on November 22th, 2021, Grenoble (download here).
[17] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Danial Majidi, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Transport de chaleur dans une boîte quantique”
defended on December 15th, 2021, Grenoble (download here).
[18] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Efe Gumus, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Calorimetry of a Phase Slip in a Josephson Junction” (download here).
defended on April 28th, 2023, Grenoble.
[19] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of David Wander, directed with Clemens Winkelmann:
“Investigation of mesoscopic superconductivity and quantum Hall effect by low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”
defended on September 12th, 2022, Grenoble (download here).
[20] PhD thesis of Université Grenoble Alpes of Hadrien Vignaud, directed with Benjamin Sacépé :
“Chiral supercurrent in quantum Hall Josephson junctions”
defended on December 20th, 2023, Grenoble.

Memorandums

PhD thesis of Hervé Courtois:
“Effets de cohérence électronique dans les nanostructures supraconductrices”,
defended on December 2nd 1994, Grenoble (download here).
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches Memorandum of Hervé Courtois:
“Supraconductivité de proximité dans les nanostructures métalliques artificielles”,
defended on September 14th 2000, Grenoble (download here).

Contact

Department: QUEST

Team: Quantum Nano-Electronics and Spectroscopy (QuNES)

Status: Personnel Chercheur

Structure: UGA

Position: Permanent

Email: Herve.Courtois@neel.cnrs.fr

Phone: 04 76 88 11 51

Office: D-305