Polariton condensates break a speed record

News (in French) from Institut de Physique (INP) of CNRS - 11 March 2019

Polaritons are half-light, half-matter, bosonic quasi-particules that are able to condensate in ...

A cryogenic transistor for observing a superconductor

News from Institut des sciences de l'ingénierie et des systèmes (INSIS) of CNRS - April 15, 2019 (released in French)

Thanks to its expertise in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Macroscopic electron quantum coherence in a solid-state circuit

A team of researchers of C2N achieved in an experimental work a coherent propagation of electrons in circuits over macroscopic distances through a novel nano-engineering ...

Confined nanoscale sound controls light in a microresonator

Researchers demonstrate a semiconductor device for the tailored generation of Brillouin signals in the ultrahigh 100GHz-THz regime.

When traversing a solid material such as glass ...

A microlaser emitting helical light

Researchers recently demonstrated the realization of an integrated microlaser based on a novel design that allows emitting light in chiral modes, thus producing corkscrews of ...

Taking advantage of disorder to trap sound and light

News from Institut de physique (INP) of CNRS - April 29, 2019 (released in French)

Physicists have proposed a novel approach to confine light and sound ...

From the growth to the fabrication and characterisation of oxide-based photonic devices

Thanks to material and photonic scientists, two groups from C2N have demonstrated the potential of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) oxide for photonic applications.

Despite the great ...

Experimental demonstration of an on-chip, passive high-rejection filter in silicon

Physicists at C2N and Institut de Physique de Nice have found a simple and generic strategy to overcome one of the major limitations in the ...