What is the temperature of a soap film?
Evaporation is known to cause cooling, much like perspiration. Physicists have measured the temperature of soap films to show that they can be up to 8°C cooler than the temperature …
Gate-assisted phase fluctuations in all-metallic Josephson junctions
A team of researchers from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (LPS) has demonstrated that in all-metallic Josephson field effect transistors, the statistics of electron flow due to the gate …
Julien Bobroff, recipient of the CNRS of the CNRS Medal for Scientific Mediation
Julien Bobroff is one of the four recipients of the Medals for Scientific Mediation 2022. The medal will be awarded to him on Friday, November 18 in the presence of …
Two pictures from the MMOI team preselected to the photo contest La Preuve par l’Image 2022
The new edition of the photo contest La preuve par l’image, organized by the CNRS with Acfas, its Quebec partner, has delivered its winners. Among the 20 preselected photos, two …
Coherent and incoherent tunneling into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states revealed by atomic scale shot-noise spectroscopy
Determining the intrinsic lifetime of states inside the superconducting gap generated by magnetic impurities (YSR states) is crucial for a better understanding of their properties and applications in quantum engineering. …
Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: a new tool to explore excitation and decay pathways in nanomaterials
The coincidences in time between the energy loss of an electron traversing a material and a subsequent light emission allow the measurement of the relative quantum efficiency of the material. …
Friedel-Volterra award presentation to Marino Marsi
On September 12, the Italian and French Physical Societies awarded the 2021 Friedel-Volterra Prize to Marino Marsi, professor at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides. Marino Marsi, professor at Paris-Saclay …
Microalgae for CO2 capture
To achieve carbon neutrality, it is necessary not only to reduce our CO2 emissions, but also to capture atmospheric CO2, namely to realize “negative emissions”. Researchers have conducted a “thought …
Evidence of a universal magnetic order, precursor of the superconducting phase in BaFe2X3 (X=S, Se) spin ladders
The understanding of the mechanism underlying the so-called unconventional high temperature superconductivity is one of the most difficult scientific challenges. Today, the most consensual approach suggests that the pairing of …
Emilie Du Châtelet award presentation to Marcelo Rozenberg
On June 9, the French Physical Society awarded the 2018 Emilie Du Châtelet Prize to Marcelo Rozenberg, CNRS research director at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, in the presence …