Charis Quay awarded Prix d’Aumale
On the 17th of October, the Académie des Sciences awarded the 2023 Prix d’Aumale to Charis Quay, maîtresse des conférences at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay). Charis …
Electron microscope and laser join forces in spectacular fashion
Understanding how materials absorb light on the nanometer scale is essential for applications in photonics and quantum optics. By superimposing a laser beam and an electron beam in an electron …
Orienting spins in a thin magnetic layer thanks to the interface with a 2D insulator
Interactions emerging at the interface of an ultrathin magnetic layer, such as the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DMI) antisymmetric exchange interaction, can lead to the appearance of particular spin orientations within the layer, …
Unleashing the power of light: a new compact photoreactor for H2 photoproduction
The configuration and geometry of chemical reactors determine reliability when assessing the performance of photocatalytic materials. Researchers have developed a novel automated photoreactor for H2 production that substantially improves the …
EMS OPA 2022 Instrumentation and Technique Development prize for Cathodoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy
Two young researchers from the STEM group, Nadezda Varkentina (former postdoc) and Yves Auad (Ph.D) have received the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award from the European Microscopy Society in the Instrumentation …
Role of optical rectification in photon-assisted tunneling current
Rectification of an optical signal using an all-metallic electronic device is of fundamental and technological importance for nano-optics. Researchers probed experimentally the microscopic mechanism at the origin of the optical …
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 …
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. …
Spin in all its orientations
To develop applications of new materials, it is important to know the energy of electrons as a function not only of their momentum but also for all possible orientations of …
