Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures

Professor Elyahou Kapon has retired in September 2019, and is now Emeritus Professor of the EPFL. His former “Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures” has been dissolved.

The Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures (LPN) carries out research on the science and technology of low-dimensional semiconductors (semiconductor quantum wells, wires and dots) and photonic nanostructures (micro- and nano-cavities, photonic crystals).
Activities range from growth of ordered nanostructures to studies of low-dimensional excitons all the way to development and commercialization of long-wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.