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Coupled nano-oscillators capable of recognizing vowels according to a learning rule

Physicists have succeeded in fabricating a network of four coupled nano-oscillators capable of recognizing spoken vowels by tuning their frequencies according to an automatic rule of real-time learning. They show that high experimental recognition rates are a result of …

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Observing the growth of crystals in a transmission electron microscope

A unique instrument has been developed to grow nanocrystals by molecular beam epitaxy in a transmission electron microscope. The crystal formation is observed in situ and in real time with the atomic resolution. Nanotechnology uses nano-sized crystalline materials …

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Photonic integrated circuits for gas detection

News (in French) from Institut des sciences de l'ingénierie et des systèmes (INSIS) of CNRS - 15 october 2018 Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy is a nearly universal way to identify chemical and biological substances. Researchers from the Centre de …

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An electromechanical energy harvesting micro-system for medical implants

This article was first published in the CNRS – La lettre Innovation (in French) in October 2018, under « Brevets et licences ». The microsystem developed and fabricated at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies1, in collaboration …

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Adjust the reflectance of a glass while preserving its transparency quality

This article was first published in the CNRS – La lettre Innovation (in French) in September 2018, under « Partenariat ». Researchers from the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology1, the Institut Fresnel2 and the PSA Group have designed …

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