“Communicate differently ..... at the speed of light”: C2N at the Double Science Festival to show you nanoscience as you've never seen it before !

Light, which travels at around 300,000 kilometers per second (3 × 10⁸ m/s), has become an invaluable tool for transmitting data at very high speeds. Thanks to optical fibers, it travels around the world and forms the heart of the Internet. To exploit this speed, we use photonic chips, tiny components capable of directing light inside very thin circuits. These chips work a bit like electronic circuits, but instead of …

Yannick Dappe, CNRS Research Director, joins the COMICS team

Yannick Dappe earned his PhD in 2002 from the University of Strasbourg (at IPCMS), working on the theory of nonlinear optics on metallic surfaces. His research focused in particular on the dynamics of image surface states on metallic surfaces within the framework of two-photon photoemission experiments, as well as on the screening of the electric field in nonlinear optical experiments. From 2004 to 2008, he continued his scientific …