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Quasiparticle Andreev scattering in the ν = 1/3 fractional quantum Hall regime

The scattering of exotic quasiparticles may follow different rules than electrons. In the fractional quantum Hall regime, a quantum point contact (QPC) provides a source of quasiparticles with field effect selectable charges and statistics, which can be scattered on …

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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 project aims to converge two research fields with numerous applications : non-linear optics …

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Quasi-deterministic nanowire growth

The vapor-solid-liquid growth of a semiconductor nanowire proceeds via the sequential nucleation and extension of biatomic monolayers (MLs) at the interface between the nanowire stem and an apical liquid catalyst nanodroplet. Controlling the length of a nanowire section to …

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Genetic optimization of Brillouin scattering gain in subwavelength-structured silicon membrane waveguides

On-chip Brillouin optomechanics has great potential for applications in communications, sensing, and quantum technologies. Tight confinement of near-infrared photons and gigahertz phonons in integrated waveguides remains a key challenge to achieving strong on-chip Brillouin gain. Here, we propose a …

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Subwavelength Control of Photons and Phonons in Release-Free Silicon Optomechanical Resonators

Integrated optomechanics finds increasingly broadening applications, requiring tight confinement of photons and phonons within nanometric-scale photonic circuits. However, most existing integrated optomechanical devices use unconventional materials or suspended structures that hinder co-integration with scalable photonic technologies. Here, we show …

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