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Adrien Perrichon

Lead Instrument Scientist for VESPA
Neutron Spectroscopy
Science Directorate

Research Activities

  • Energy materials: solid state electrolytes, proton conducting fuel cells, solar cell materials
  • Complex oxides
  • Neutron instrumentation

Selected Publications

Energy materials research

  • A. Perrichon, M. M. Koza, Z. Evenson, B. Frick, F. Demmel, P. Fouquet, M. Karlsson, Proton Diffusion Mechanism in Hydrated Barium Indate Oxides, Chem. Mater. 35 (2023) 6713−6725
  • R. Lavén, M. M. Koza, L. Malavasi, A. Perrichon, M. Appel, M. Karlsson, Rotational Dynamics of Organic Cations in Formamidinium Lead Iodide Perovskites, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14 (2023) 2784−2791
  • R. Lavén, U. Häussermann, A. Perrichon, M. S. Andersson, M. Sannemo Targama, F. Demmel, M. Karlsson, Diffusional Dynamics of Hydride Ions in the Layered Oxyhydride SrVO2H, Chem. Mater. 33 (2021) 2967−2975
  • A. Perrichon, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, L. Mazzei, S. M. H. Rahman, M. Karlsson, Local Structure and Vibrational Dynamics of Proton Conducting Ba2In2O5(H2O)x, J. Mater. Chem. A 7 (2019) 17626

Complex oxides research

  • A. Perrichon, A. Piovano, M. Boehm, M. H. Lemée, M. Ceretti, W. Paulus, Breakdown of the Perfect Crystal Dynamics in Dynamically Disordered Over-Stoichiometric Nd2NiO4.25, Phys. Rev. B 107 (2023) 144303
  • A. Perrichon, E. Jedvik Granhed, G. Romanelli, A. Piovano, A. Lindman, P. Hyldgaard, G. Wahnström, M. Karlsson, Unraveling the Ground-State Structure of BaZrO3 by Neutron Scattering Experiments and First-Principles Calculations, Chem. Mater. 32 (2020) 2824−2835

Neutron instrumentation & method development

  • A. Perrichon, C. Bovo, S. F. Parker, D. Raspino, J. Armstrong, V. García Sakai, Overview of planned upgrade to the secondary spectrometer of TOSCA, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1047 (2023) 167899
  • A. Perrichon, On the spectral resolution of the broad-band indirect-geometry time-of-flight neutron spectrometer TOSCA, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1041 (2022) 167401
  • A. Perrichon, F. Demmel, Upgrade of the OSIRIS primary spectrometer, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1039 (2022) 167014
  • A. Perrichon, A. Devishvili, K. Komander, G. K. Pálsson, A. Vorobiev, R. Lavén, M. Karlsson, M. Wolff, Resonant enhancement of grazing incidence neutron scattering for the characterization of thin films, Phys. Rev. B 103 (2021) 235423

Career History

2024-: Instrument scientist, European Spallation Source ERIC.

2020-2024: Instrument scientist, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK. 

2018-2020: Postdoctoral fellowship, Uppsala University, Sweden & ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK. 

2016-2018: Postdoctoral fellowship, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

2015: PhD in Solid State Chemistry, Institut Charles Gerhardt, Université de Montpellier, France.