The CNRS has just announced the awarding of its 2026 Gold Medal to Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS research director at C2N.

Jacqueline Bloch is an internationally recognized specialist in light-matter interaction. With her team, she explores the physics of polaritons, quantum fluids of light manipulated in semiconductor microcavities, to probe phenomena as varied as superfluidity, topology, and non-equilibrium phase transitions. Having joined the CNRS in 1994, she received the Jean Ricard Prize from the French Physical Society (2015), the CNRS Silver Medal (2017), and the Ampère Prize from the Académie des …

Façonner l'infiniment petit | Our new video series at the heart of micro- and nanotechnology processes

Through this video series, C2N opens the doors of its nanotechnology cleanroom facility to show you the technologies used to fabricate the infinitely small. Thin-film deposition, lithography, etching, scanning electron microscopy: each episode gives a schematic overview of the key steps in micro- and nanotechnologies and the expertise deployed across C2N's technology platforms. Watch the first episode