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Low-loss silicon nitride photonics: a process for unlocking high performance nonlinear optics.

Results presented at the SPIE Nanophotonics XI conference (Proc. SPIE 14076, May 2026) Silicon nitride (SiN) has established itself as an important material platform for integrated photonics due to …

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Joo-Von Kim, CNRS Research Director at C2N, Named 2027–2028 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society

Joo-Von Kim, CNRS Research Director at C2N, has been named a 2027–2028 Distinguished Lecturer by a committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society. A theoretical and computational physicist, Joo-Von Kim specializes in nanomagnetism and spintronics. At C2N, his work focuses on …

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Victor Turpaud, postdoctoral researcher in the Photonics Department at C2N, is the recipient of the 2025 Thesis Prize from the Société Française d’Optique (SFO).

His thesis, supervised by Delphine Marris-Morini, focused on SiGe photonic circuits for the mid-infrared, with the goal of developing integrated broadband sources for on-chip spectroscopy. ► Read more

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The CNRS has just announced the awarding of its 2026 Gold Medal to Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS research director at C2N.

Jacqueline Bloch is an internationally recognized specialist in light-matter interaction. With her team, she explores the physics of polaritons, quantum fluids of light manipulated in semiconductor microcavities, to probe phenomena as varied as superfluidity, topology, and non-equilibrium phase transitions. Having …

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Façonner l'infiniment petit | Our new video series at the heart of micro- and nanotechnology processes

Through this video series, C2N opens the doors of its nanotechnology cleanroom facility to show you the technologies used to fabricate the infinitely small. Thin-film deposition, lithography, etching, scanning electron microscopy: each episode gives a schematic overview of the key …

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