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Published the Aug. 13, 2018

Hung-Ling Chen, PhD Student at C2N, rewarded with Best Student Paper Award at the WCPEC-7 conference

Hung-Ling Chen, PhD Student at C2N (Sunlit team), received the Best Student Paper Award for Area 1 (Fundamental Conversion Mechanisms) at the 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion for his work “19.9% efficient ultrathin GaAs solar cells with nanostructured back mirror formulti-resonant absorption and enhanced luminescence extraction”.

This Best Student Paper Award recognizes outstanding work by students in each technical area. In addition to judging the technical content of the student’s work, oral presentations and the student’s role in the work are assessed. One “Best Student Paper Award” is given out for each technical area of the WCPEC-7.

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A C2N research project is awarded with the Societal impact Prize by the French National Research Agency (ANR) 2016

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A team at C2N is double world champion in an international competition of microrobotics

A team of C2N showed the strength by winning two champion titles in international mobile microrobotics challenge held at Singapore in 2017. It was held during the international conference on robotics and automation having more than 3200 participants. The C2N team participated in this year edition from 27 May to 2 June 2017. They participated in two competitions ("mobility/precision" and "best-in-show") and the champion titles of both events …