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Professor Emeritus of Sorbonne Université

Phone: +33 1 69 85 16 51

E-mail: Alain.Kreisler(at)centralesupelec.fr

Prof. Em. Alain KREISLER

Background:
  • Graduated Supélec, Engineering Institute in Energy and Information Science (1963)

  • Researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research (1966)

  • PhD Thesis in Solid State Electronics, UPMC Univ Paris 06 (1973)

  • Post Doc at Sussex University – UK (1974) – Materials Science Laboratory

  • Full Professor at UPMC Univ Paris 06 and Supélec (1988-2007); tutored and lectured Digital and Analog Electronics, Microelectronics, Sensor Physics, Materials Science, Electromagnetics

  • Activity at the French Ministry of Research (1993-1997)

  • Head of Paris Electrical Engineering Laboratory, LGEP (2000-2005)

 
Research interests:
  • Early research topics: Instrumentation engineering for Terrestrial sciences; Solid state electronics (Magnetic resonance in complex alloys); Metallurgical Sciences

  • Head of “Submillimeter Wave Research” Group (1980-1990) at Paris 6 University; developed terahertz laser sources and Schottky diode detectors and mixers up to 10 THz

  • Head of “Superconducting Thin Films and Devices” Group (1990-2003) at LGEP (now GeePs); developed high-Tc film technologies for: microwave passive devices, mid-IR and Terahertz radiation bolometric detectors

  • Head of “Materials and Devices: from Microwaves to the Infrared” MDMI Team (2003-2007)

  • Research coordinator of the EU NANOTIME project (2005-2009)

  • Task leader within the MASTHER ANR project (Miniaturized All-Solid state Terahertz HEterodyne Receiver; 2011-2015)

  • Currently developing THz imaging (cooled and uncooled) arrays

 
Some relevant publications:
  1. A. Kreisler, A. Dégardin, R. Ladret, and V. Jagtap, “Highly sensitive and moderately cooled THz sensing: a challenge for Y-Ba-Cu-O superconducting thin films,” SPIE Security & Defence 2020, Edinburgh (20 September 2020). SPIE Proc.11541, Millimetre Wave and Terahertz Sensors and Technology XIII, 115410D. DOI: 10.1117/12.2574041

  2. A F. Dégardin, V.S. Jagtap, and A. J. Kreisler, "Semiconducting amorphous Y-Ba-Cu-O: an attractive material for fast and sensitive thermal sensing in the NIR to THz range," Photonics West, San Francisco, USA (1-6 February 2020), Oral presentation. Proc. SPIE 11279, Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications XIII, 1127909 (2 March 2020); doi: 10.1117/12.2546590

  3. R. Ladret, A. Dégardin, V. Jagtap, and A. Kreisler, "THz Mixing with High-TC Hot Electron Bolometers: a Performance Modeling Assessment for Y-Ba-Cu-O Devices," Photonics 6(7), 26 pages (2019). doi:10.3390/photonics6010007

  4. A. J. Kreisler, X. Galiano, V. S. Jagtap, M. Razanoelina, M. Tonouchi, and A. F. Dégardin, “Amorphous YBaCuO pyroelectric NIR detectors: ready to proceed through the THz gap?,” Joint Symposium of the 4th International Symposium on Microwave/THz Science and Applications (MTSA 2017) and the 6th International Symposium on Terahertz Nanoscience (TeraNano-6), Okayama, Japan (19 – 23 November 2017), Invited oral presentation #B2-1 

  5. A.J. Kreisler, A.F. Dégardin, X. Galiano & D. Alamarguy, “Low noise and fast response of IR sensing structures based on amorphous Y-Ba-Cu-O semiconducting thin films sputtered on silicon,” Thin Solid Films 617, pp. 71-75 (2016).

  6. R. Ladret, A.J. Kreisler & A.F. Dégardin, “YBCO-Constriction Hot Spot Modeling: DC and RF Descriptions for HEB THz Mixer Noise Temperature and Conversion Gain,” IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 25 (3), p. 2300505 (2015).  

  7. A. J. Kreisler, I. Türer, X. Gaztelu & A. F. Dégardin, “UWB Antennas for CW Terahertz Imaging: Cross Talk Issues,” Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 10, F. Sabath and E.L. Mokole Eds., Springer, Chap. 43, pp. 473-482 (2014).

  8. A. J. Kreisler, V. S. Jagtap and A. F. Dégardin, “Infrared response in the 95 to 300 K range of detectors based on oxygen-depleted Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films,” Physics Procedia 36, pp. 223-228 (2012).

  9. V. S. Jagtap, A. F. Dégardin, and A. J. Kreisler, “Low temperature amorphous growth of semi-conducting Y-Ba-Cu-O oxide thin films in view of infrared bolometric detection,” Thin Solid Films 520, pp. 4754-4757 (2012).

  10. A. Kreisler, I. Türer, X. Gaztelu, A. Scheuring and A. Dégardin, “Terahertz broadband micro-antennas for continuous wave imaging,” in Non-Standard Antennas, F. Le Chevalier et al. Eds, WILEY-ISTE, pp. 117-145 (2011).

  11. M. Aurino, A. Martinez, I. Türer, V. S. Jagtap, A. Gensbittel, A. F. Dégardin and A. J. Kreisler, “Ageing and embedding issues for high-Tc superconducting hot-electron bolometers for THz imaging,” SPIE Proc. 7671, M. Anwar et al. Eds, 767103-1/10 (2010).

  12. V. Michal, G. Klisnick, G. Sou, M. Redon, A. J. Kreisler and A. F. Dégardin, “Fixed-gain CMOS differential amplifiers with no external feedback for a wide temperature range,” Cryogenics 49, pp. 615-619 (2009).

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