Contact GFC : Thierry Chartier
thierry.chartier@unilim.fr

Direction : Dr. Philippe THOMAS
philippe.thomas@unilim.fr

IRCER UMR 7315
Centre Européen de la Céramique
12 rue Atlantis
87068 LIMOGES CEDEX
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 10
https://www.ircer.fr/

Vocation: “Understanding and control of elaboration processes, and surface treatments, to produce ceramics components, layers… with specific, improved, reliable properties”
Research topics:
• Group 1: Ceramic processes: ceramic powders, shaping processes and numerical fabrication, consolidation mechanisms
Contact information:
Prof. Arnaud VIDECOQ
+ 33 (0)5 87 50 23 66
arnaud.videcoq@unilim.fr
• Group 2: Plasma and lasers processes: thin films and nanostructures, sources and plasma processes, engineering of ceramic / metal assembly and plasma spraying
Contact information:
Prof. Corinne CHAMPEAUX
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 31
corinne.champeaux@unilim.fr
• Group 3: Multi-scale structural organization of materials: structure / properties of complexes oxides, materials with controlled micro-, nano-structures
Contact information:
Dr. Jenny JOUIN
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 88
jenny.juin@unilim.fr
• Group 4: Ceramics under environmental conditions: high temperature materials, bioceramics, mechanical and thermo-mechanical properties
Contact information:
Prof. Sylvie FOUCAUD
+33 (0)5 87 50 23 49
sylvie.foucaud@unilim.fr
Exceptional facilities
• Coating equipments (CVD, PECVD, PVD, PLD, LECBD, powder/suspension plasma spraying, cold-spray)
• Additive manufacturing: inkjet printing, robocasting, stereolithography, aerosol deposition method
• Sintering: Under controlled atmosphere up to 2200°C, Hot Pressing, Hot Isostatic Pressing, Spark Plasma Sintering
• Many facilities of characterization of materials and plasma
• X-Ray diffraction / scattering
• 2 HRTEM (200 kV, EDS and STEM), MEB-FIB Dual Beam
Financial support programs:
– Regional, National (ANR, DGA, ADEME, CNRS…), European fundings
– Companies