Catherine Even, associate professor at LPS, has just published a book with Nicolas Vernier that presents thermodynamics visually and applied to everyday life. In color and very illustrated, this book …
Solar cells based on mixed-halide hybrid perovskites show efficiencies that have already surpassed the best polycrystalline silicon-based cells, in just a few years since their discovery 1Y. Fu, H. Zhu, …
Frozen water can take on up to three forms at the same time when it melts: liquid, ice and gas. This principle, which states that many substances can occur in …
An LPS team has just observed the shear of a charge density wave under an applied electric current by scanning X-ray diffraction. A charge density wave is a state which …
Researchers from the LPS and their collaborators have experimentally identified a new regime in Josephson junctions illuminated by microwave radiation. They found that high-frequency and high-power microwaves change the transport …
Macroscopic assembly of nanomaterials in fibers can improve their mechanical characteristics and add new functions. One-dimensional nanomaterials are particularly suited to the uniaxial geometry of fibers. Researchers at Imperial College …
Spontaneous electric polarization, a phenomenon called ferroelectricity, occurs in a material when the spatial distributions of positive and negative charges differ. It is therefore intimately related to the symmetry of …
The LPS STEM group and their collaborators have unveiled the interaction of phonons and plasmons at the nanometer scale. This interaction, which is discussed in an article just published in …
In some conditions, very elongated rod-like silver nanoparticles can be grown on gold seeds. What is the origin of this surprising shape? LPS researchers, in collaboration with the MPQ laboratory …
Epidemiological studies show a clear increase in renal lithiasis in most western countries, induced by changes in eating habits and lifestyle. Almost 20% of the population will be affected by …
