Article on the cover of ACS Photonics
A Magnetic Monopole Antenna Benoît Reynier, Xingyu Yang, Bruno Gallas, Sébastien Bidault, and Mathieu Mivelle ACS Photonics 2023 Publication Date: July 7, 2023 Article A Magnetic Monopole Antenna
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An Introduction to Plasmonics – Olivier Pluchery, Jean-François Bryche – World Scientific
Sorbonne University professor Olivier Pluchery has just published An Introduction to Plasmonics with World Scientific, in collaboration with Jean-François Bryche of the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). What is a plasmon? Is...
Ferroelectrics and semiconductor nanocrystals bromance
In semiconductors physics the pn junction occupies a central place being the building block of device such as LEDs or photodiodes. Usually, the junction is obtained by doping semiconductors through implantation of extrinsic impurities....
Towards a new generation of acoustic imaging
Although laser ultrasound imaging is now recognized as a powerful tool for investigating elastic properties in a wide range of fields, from applications to fundamental research, a number of obstacles remain. The generation of...
A new spectroscopy to unravel spin states in GaAs/AlAs quantum dots
The on-demand generation of entangled photons is an essential achievement leading to important applications for quantum technologies. In semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), the radiative biexciton-exciton cascade is successfully employed. Resonant two-photon excitation (TPE), coherently...
Everything is quantum: what I measure, my detector, myself!
Since the first formulation of quantum mechanics, Nature has been divided into two categories: the classical world (that of tennis balls) and the quantum world of atoms and photons. The transition between the two...
More efficient peroskite solar cells by inserting metallic nanoparticles
In order to offset the exit from fossil fuels, the development of renewable energies is a crucial issue – coupled of course with a reduction in our energy consumption. In the field of photovoltaic...
Designing acoustic sources adjusted in frequency and size
Nano-objects have many properties that have led to applications in recent years, particularly in the field of optics. From the point of view of elasticity, these systems, whose size can go down to a...
Magnetocaloric films for microscale thermal energy harvesting
In the last couple of decades, Magnetocaloric (MC) materials studieshave undergone major advancements paving the way to novel energy conversion applications. Among them, a rather new field of research is represented by the possibility...
The adaptive quantum thermal bath for a quantum treatment of atomic nuclei
When modeling matter at the atomic scale, the behavior of electrons is described by the laws of quantum mechanics, but atomic nuclei, being heavier, are often treated as classical objects, obeying Newton’s laws. This...
