C2N – News

Macroscopic electron quantum coherence in a solid-state circuit

May 15, 2019 - Anne Anthore

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 strategy. The quantum coherence of electronic quasiparticles underpins many of the emerging transport ...

Taking advantage of disorder to trap sound and light

May 14, 2019 - Daniel Lanzillotti-Kimura

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 waves at the same place using an approximately periodic nanoscale stack of ...

A cryogenic transistor for observing a superconductor

April 24, 2019 - Yong Jin

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 realization of cryogenic high electron mobility transistors, a C2N team has enabled ...

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

April 9, 2019 - Guillaume Marcaud

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 progress achieved in silicon photonics the last decade, devices functionalities are still limited ...

A microlaser emitting helical light

April 1, 2019 - Jacqueline Bloch

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 light. An object is said to be chiral if it can be distinguished ...