Generation of light in a photon-number quantum superposition

Physicists at C2N have demonstrated for the first time the direct generation of light in a state that is simultaneously a single photon, two photons ...

Controlling with light the amplitude and the direction of the deformation of a material

Thanks to the integration and characterization of ferroelectric thin films into capacitive micro-devices, a team of researchers at C2N has shown that it is possible ...

Teleportation of a quantum state across a metallic island

News released (in French) by the Institut de Physique (INP) of CNRS on 18 February 2020

A team of physicists at C2N have observed for ...

Direct mapping of the electronic coupling between two self-assembled quantum dots

Thanks to an advanced technique of scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS), a team of researchers at C2N was able to observe the electronic ...

A lab-on-a-chip for the ultrasensitive detection of biomarkers

This article was first published in the CNRS – La lettre Innovation (in French) in September 2019, under « Brevets et licences ».

A team ...

Chaos generated with a nanoscale magnetic vortex

Magnetic vortices are nanoscale whirls that gyrate like spinning tops, tracing out paths in a clockwise or counter-clockwise manner in nanometre-thick materials. Under certain conditions ...

Ultrathin solar cells reach a record of nearly 20% efficiency

Researchers at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), in collaboration in particular with researchers at the German Fraunhofer ISE, have succeeded to trap ...

A compact optomechanical gigahertz oscillator made of a piezoelectric III-V semiconductor

A team of physicists at C2N and Thalès Research and Technology have demonstrated an optomechanical oscillator, based on an ultra-compact bichromatic one-dimensional crystal, able to ...

Nanoporous germanium for cheaper multi-junction solar cells

News released (in French) by the Institut des Sciences et de l’Ingénierie des Systèmes (INSIS) of CNRS on 25 November 2019

Despite their excellent energy ...

Mimicking potentials for acoustic-phonons by shaping their propagation through a nanoengineered structure

In a theoretical work, a team of researchers at C2N has proposed a novel nanoengineered approach to manipulate the way acoustic-phonons travel through a periodic ...