April 20, 2023

Creation of the FESTIN Joint Laboratory between C2N and MISTIC

The C2N, Microcapteurs pour le Biomédical team1 and MISTIC2 (MIcro Structuration of Titanium for Innovative Components) have created a joint laboratory (LabCom) called …

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April 4, 2023

Manipulating hypersound in mesopouros materials

Physicists and chemists use mesoporous materials to confine ultra-high frequency acoustic phonons.
The rapidly advancing field of Nanophononics focuses on the study of hypersound, acoustic …

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April 13, 2023

Mission Juice : C2N also embarks for the icy moons of Jupiter

Thanks to the expertise of their teams and their advanced environment, C2N, in partnership with LERMA, have developed the most sensitive Schottky THz nano-diode process …

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March 1, 2023

ERC Consolidator Grants 2022 : Daniel Lanzilloti Kimura, Laureate for the T-RECS project

Acoustic phonons are usually seen as a primary source of unwanted effects in electronics, optoelectronics, and quantum technologies based on solid-state platforms. This project proposes …

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Jan. 31, 2023

ERC Consolidator Grants 2022: Konstantinos Pantzas, Laureate for the PANDORA project

Konstantinos Pantzas, CNRS researcher at C2N, has been awarded a grant for the PANDORA project - Orientation-Patterned Gallium Phosphide for Integrated Nonlinear Photonics.

The PANDORA …

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April 4, 2023

Exploring the frontiers of ultra-high freqency acoustic phonons : insights on cutting-edge research

High-frequency acoustic phonons break the paradigm of “bad guys” in solid-state physics, and take the lead in revolutionizing nanotechnology.
Nanophononics, a rapidly developing field of …

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Feb. 15, 2023

ENTENTE project : Laureate of the CNRS RISE programme

Rémy Braive and Giuseppe Modica, with the support of Robert Horvath, all three researchers at C2N, have developed a new technology for integrated frequency generators …

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April 30, 2023

ERC Advanced Grants 2022 : Laurent Vivien, Laureate for the CRYPTONIT project

Silicon (Si) photonics stands as a solid candidate to address the scaling challenges of emerging communication systems with an ever-growing number of interconnected devices. However, …

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April 30, 2023

ERC Advanced Grants 2022 : Delphine Marris-Morini, Laureate for the ELECTROPHOT project

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy is a nearly universal way to identify chemical and biological substances and to perform non-invasive diagnostics. More specifically, the 6-15 μm wavelength …

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Jan. 31, 2023

ERC Consolidator Grants 2022 : Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laureate for the SPRING project

Carlos Alonso Ramos, CNRS researcher at C2N, has been granted an ERC Consolidator Fellowship for the project SPRING - Silicon opto-electro-mechanics for bridging the gap …

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More C2N News

Research

Research

The centre develops research in the fields of material science, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nanobiotechnologies and microsystems, as well as in nanotechnologies. Its research activites cover all the range from fondamental to applied science.

The scientific project revolves around 10 major scientific challenges which are common to the 4 departments and federate research within the laboratory.

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Jobs

Jobs

Each year, researchers, engineers and technicians from around the world apply for CNRS or Paris-Saclay University positions to carry out their activity at C2N.

A number of internship, PhD position and Post-doc opportunities are also open at C2N.

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Facility

Facility

The C2N gathers 3 plateforms into the Technology Facility and 3 platforms of expertise in instrumentation and characterization (optical and multiphysics).

The C2N Technology Facility belongs to the national nanofabrication network (Renatech network).

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    Seminars
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    16/Jun/2023 - 11 a.m.

    Bright Fluorescent Polymeric Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

    By Andrey Klymchenko

    Dye-loaded fluorescent polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) appear as an attractive alternative to inorganic NPs, such as quantum dots (QDots). Confining large number of dyes with bulky …

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    30/Jun/2023 - 10 a.m.

    High performance silicon and silicon metamaterials for integrated photonics

    By Winnie Ye

    Silicon based photonics has been under great scrutiny in recent years due to their potential for making highly compact monolithic integration of multifunctional electronic and …

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    07/Jul/2023 - 10 a.m.

    Advanced numerical methodology for designing passive and active nanophotonic devices

    By Mahmoud Elsawy

    In this presentation, I am excited to share with you our cutting-edge optimization approach
    for multiobjective metasurface setups. Our method is based on statistical learning, …

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    10/Jul/2023 - 2 p.m.

    Astronomy meets photonics: a unique potential for the next decade

    By Lucas Labadie

    New discoveries in astronomy rely primarily on the astronomers' ability to develop and exploit new technologies to process and analyze the very few distant stellar …

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    PhD defense
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    25/Apr/2023 - 3 p.m.

    (in french) Conception et fabrication d'un transistor de puissance à archi-tecture verticale de type normally-off à base d'un réseau de nanofils de GaN

    By Mohamed Benjelloun

    Du fait de ses propriétés physiques remarquables, le nitrure de gallium (GaN) est un matériau très attrayant pour la fabrication de composants pour l’électronique de …

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    27/Apr/2023 - 9 a.m.

    (in french) Silicium supraconducteur ultra-dopé par laser : du matériau aux dispositifs

    By Leonard DESVIGNES

    Communément connue dans les métaux, la supraconductivité peut également apparaître dans les semi-conducteurs du groupe IV. Le silicium dopé au bore (SiB), l'un des matériaux …

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    26/May/2023 - 2 p.m.

    (in french) Avancées sur les cellules solaires ultrafines en GaAs et en CdTe

    By Bérengère FROUIN

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    HdR defense
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    20/May/2022 - 2 p.m.

    Subwavelength silicon photonics for applications in the near- and mid-infrared

    By Carlos RAMOS

    Jury Mmebers

    GAUTHIER LAFAYE Olivier, Directeur de recherche CNRS, Laboratoire d’Architecture et d’Analyse des Systèmes (LAAS-CNRS). Rapporteur.

    BERNAL-ARTAJONA Maria Pilar, Directrice de recherche du CNRS, …

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    23/May/2022 - 11 a.m.

    (in french) Electro-optomécanique dans les cristaux photonique pour le détection de faible signaux et la génération de signaux haute pureté

    By Rémy Braive

    Membres du Jury

    Prof. Sara DUCCI (Université Paris-Cité, Laboratoire MPQ)

    Prof. Clivia SOTOMAYOR-TORRES ( ICN2, Borcelone)

    Prof. Arnaud MUSSOT (Université de Lille)

    Dr. Jean-Philippe POIZAT …

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