Dr. Briac Lanfant

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Senior research Associate/Lecturer
• Institute of Product Development and Production Technologies

Focus

• Metalic and ceramic materials
• Production Process (Additive Manufacturing, Injection Molding, powder metallurgy)

Professional development teaching

• WBK Additive Fertigung (3D-Druck)
• CAS Additive Fertigung
• CAS Industry 4.0 – from idea to implementation

Experience

• Material Engineer
  Rolex, Biel
  04 / 2020 - 11 / 2022
• Material Scientist
  Empa, Thun
  04 / 2015 - 12 / 2019
• Materiale and Chemistry, PhD
  CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France
  10 / 2011 - 09 / 2014

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Material and Chemistry
  CEA/LEDNA, Gif-sur-Yvette, Frankreich
  10 / 2011 - 10 / 2014
• Master / Ceramic materials
  Université de Limoges, France
  09 / 2010 - 09 / 2011
• Material Engineer / Material science
  Material Ingenieur, ENSIL, Limoges, France
  09 / 2008 - 09 / 2011

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Additive Manufacturing of Ti-Nb Dissimilar Metals by Laser Metal Deposition D.Cui, B.Lanfant, M.Leparoux, S.Fabre Industrializing Additive Manufacturing. AMPA 2020
• Fabrication of Metal Matrix Composite by Laser Metal Deposition: a new process approach by Direct Dry Injection of Nanopowders B.Lanfant, F.Bär, A. Mohanta, M.Leparoux Materials 2019
• Induction Plasma Synthesis of Graphene Nano-flakes with In Situ Investigation of Ar–H2 –CH4 Plasma by Optical Emission Spectroscopy A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Leparoux Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 2019
• Mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of nanostructured SiC / carbon nanotubes composites B. Lanfant, Y. Leconte, N.Debski, G. Bonnefont, M.Pinault, M. Mayne-L’Hermite, A.Habert, Y. Jorand, V. Garnier, G. Fantozzi, S. Le Gallet, F. Bernard Ceramics International, 2018
• Methane dissociation process in inductively coupled Ar/H2/CH4 plasma for graphene nano-flakes production A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Asfaha, M.Leparoux Applied Physics Letters, 2017
• Optical emission spectroscopic study of Ar/H2/CH4 plasma during the production of graphene nano-flakes by induction plasma synthesis A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Asfaha, M.Leparoux Journal of physics: Conference Series, 2017
• Effects of carbon and oxygen on the spark plasma sintering additive-free densification and on the mechanical properties of nanostructured SiC ceramics B.Lanfant, Y.Leconte, G.Bonnefont, V.Garnier , Y.Jorand, S.Le Gallet, M.Pinault, N.Herlin-Boime, F. Bernard, G.Fantozzi Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2015
• A thorough FT-IR spectroscopy study on micrometric silicon oxide films deposited by atmospheric pressure microwave plasma torch - Highlighted Paper of EPJ (December 2011)- X.Landreau, B.Lanfant, T.Merle, C.Dublanche-Tixier, P.Tristant The European Physical Journal D, 2012
• Ordering of SiOxHyCz islands deposited by atmospheric pressure microwave plasma torch on Si(100) substrates patterned by nanoindentation X.Landreau, B.Lanfant, T.Merle, E.Laborde, C.Dublanche-Tixier, P.Tristant The European Physical Journal D, 2011

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