C2N – News

Mesoscopic limit cycles in coupled nanolasers under strong fluctuations

June 15, 2020 - Alejandro Giacomotti

Using two coupled nanolasers, researchers have demonstrated the existence of limit cycles with only a thousand photons in the cavities, in spite of the strong spontaneous emission quantum noise influencing the system dynamics. Any freely decaying dissipative dynamical ...

The cascade to criticality

June 9, 2020 - Jacqueline Bloch

Researchers at C2N (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay), PhLAM laboratory (CNRS/Univ. de Lille) and ETH Zurich have unveiled a novel mechanism describing how criticality - a phase in which waves are neither extended nor localized but in a so-called “critical state” - ...

Amplifying a weak signal by manipulating the nonlinear resonance in a nano-electromechanical resonator

May 29, 2020 - Rémy Braive

A team of researchers at C2N has experimentally demonstrated an enhancement by more than an order of magnitude of a weak electrical signal thanks to nano-electromechanical resonator. Their results, supported by theory, illustrate a general mechanism which potentially applies ...

Molecular ‘fingerprinting’ technology that fits on a fingertip

May 27, 2020 - Service communication

Article published on the European Commission website CORDIS, about the ERC Starting Grant project « Chip-scale INtegrated Photonics for the mid-Infra REd » (INsPIRE), led by Delphine Marris-Morini, Professor at Université Paris-Saclay and researcher at C2N, that ended ...

The key components of a terahertz receiver, fabricated in the C2N cleanroom facility, will be on board of the ESA mission JUICE

May 18, 2020 - Service communication

The C2N and the Laboratoire d’Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères – LERMA1 have jointly developed a process to fabricate terahertz Schottky nano-diodes, leading to the realisation of the world most sensitive heterodyne receiver ...