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A microlaser emitting helical light
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 …
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Polariton condensates break a speed record
News (in French) from Institut de Physique (INP) of CNRS - 11 March 2019 Polaritons are half-light, half-matter, bosonic quasi-particules that are able to condensate in a single quantum state. For the first time, these usually quasi-immobile assemblies …
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Measurement standards at the nanoscale for AFM and SEM microscopes
This article was published in the CNRS – La lettre Innovation (in French) in February 2019, under « Partenariats ». The Laboratoire National de métrologie et d’Essais and the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies1 co-developed …
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Linear electro-optic effect in a centrosymmetric semiconductor
Researchers from C2N demonstrated a high-speed Pockels effect in strained silicon waveguides, clearing the doubts raised over the last decade on its existence. The explosion of data demand imposed new requirements in terms of data transmission rate and …
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First laser effect observed in germanium direct bandgap
A collaboration of researchers from C2N and STMicroelectronics has obtained, for the first time, a laser effect with germanium as active material thanks to direct alignment of the electronic band diagram. Until now, this material was known to be …
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