UFR PhITEMPhysics, Engineering, Earth, Environment, Mechanics

This includes traditional aspects such as image formation, but also interferometry, polarization, spectroscopy and its applications to the characterization and analysis of matter (from atomic physics through chemistry to biology), sensors and transmitters (lasers, etc.), metrology, optoelectronics, etc.

The platform is open to all disciplines involved in the use of optical methods, including those not attached to the UFR PhITEM (Polytech, Life and Earth Sciences, undergraduate studies, etc.), whether or not they are attached to the UGA (Grenoble INP, etc.), as well as to organizers of continuing education sessions.

Since September 2006, this platform has been housed in restructured and renovated premises in the PhITEM C building on the Saint-Martin-d'Hères campus.

Role of the platform

• Provide experimental resources for training and hosting students, in the form of equipment managed and maintained by the platform and made available on its premises;
• Encourage the use of these resources by the various sectors;
• Collect and disseminate relevant information to potential users.
  For further information, we offer a list of experiments carried out on the platform, descriptive sheets for certain materials or experiments, educational documents and a photo gallery;
• Train teachers to use these resources.

Actions undertaken by the platform

• Experimental activities for primary and secondary school pupils: Ateliers Sciences Ouvertes
• Participation in scientific events: 50 years of laser, E2phy, Fête de la science.
• Hosting physics lectures and tutorials, with demonstrations of experiments designed to illustrate the lectures in a simple, demonstrative and attractive way.
• House for Science.
• Opening up the platform to other disciplines involved in the use of optical methods, including non-physics disciplines.
• Help for teachers and students in high schools and preparatory classes, particularly with TPE and TIPE projects.