24 janvier 2019, 10h05
The rigidity of double-stranded DNA plays a major role in the structuring of the chromosome and thus the expression of genes, as well as in nanotechnology where DNA is used as a building block. How...
24 janvier 2019, 11h51
The rigidity of double-stranded DNA plays a major role in the structuring of the chromosome and thus the expression of genes, as well as in nanotechnology where DNA is used as a building block. How is this...

The 2018 edition, which was held on December 5 at the...
30 novembre 2018, 13h00
One-dimensional interacting systems of quantum particles are qualitatively different from their higher-dimensional counterparts. The reason is the strong effect of quantum fluctuations, which renders the...

Plasmonics, based on noble metals like gold, silver...
Harmonic alloys constitute a new class of heterogeneous materials with a grain size gradient. Processed by powder metallurgy, they demonstrate enhanced mechanical properties compared to their conventional counterparts. Using mechanical testing and...

Researchers from the CEMES-CNRS and the University of...

The signal-to-noise ratio of measurements by electron...
6 septembre 2018, 11h13
Theoretically challenging, the understanding of the dynamical response in quantum antiferromagnets is of great interest, in particular for both inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and nuclear...
6 septembre 2018, 11h22
Theoretically challenging, the understanding of the dynamical response in quantum antiferromagnets is of great interest, in particular for both inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and nuclear magnetic...

French researchers and Japanese engineers have joined...
The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the 7th time on July 2nd & 3rd, 2018 to select scientific projects in response to the 7th call for proposal.

Ultracompact plasmonic devices ensuring optical...

Adapting an approximate quantum method (DFTB), we...
From 11 till 12 June 2018, NEXT will welcome an American delegation from the University of RICE. The objective of the visit is to strengthen the links between laboratories constituting NEXT (LCAR, CEMES, LPT, LPCNO, LCPQ, LNCMI) and Smalley-Curl...

The gradual enrichment of the 6H-SiC (0001) surface...

It is shown that with a single laser beam, it is...
2 mai 2018, 22h15
One-dimensional interacting systems of quantum particles are qualitatively different from their higher-dimensional counterparts. The reason is the strong effect of quantum fluctuations, which renders the...
2 mai 2018, 17h45
One-dimensional interacting systems of quantum particles are qualitatively different from their higher-dimensional counterparts. The reason is the strong effect of quantum fluctuations, which renders the...
12 avril 2018, 13h27
Les bancs de poissons offrent un exemple fascinant de comportement collectif dans lequel le groupe se coordonne sans avoir besoin de leader. Mais quel est le rôle joué par le fluide et l'écoulement...
12 avril 2018, 13h45
Fish schools offer a fascinating example of collective behavior in which the group coordinates without the need for a leader. But what is the role played by the fluid and flow in this coordination ? In order to...

CNRS and the japanese University Nara Institute of...

Gold nano-islands deposited on an insulating...
22 February 2018, 17h00
13 février 2018, 18h00
Computers are more and more present in everyday life, and they carry out more and more tasks previously reserved for humans. In particular, recent developments in artificial intelligence have shown...
13 février 2018, 18h00
Les ordinateurs sont de plus en plus présents dans la vie quotidienne, et ils réalisent de plus en plus de tâches précédemment réservées aux humains. En particulier, les développements...
This book presents in a unified way the domain of molecular materials and devices, by showing how properties due to electrons depend on a few basic principles. It thus shows the link between magnetic, electrical and photophysical properties of...

The CEMES-CNRS laboratory wishes you a very happy and...
8 janvier 2018, 11h01
Similar to how sound waves propagate through everyday materials, some materials can carry magnetic waves, which are collective excitations of electronic magnetic moments (or spins). These “spin...
8 janvier 2018, 11h01
Similar to how sound waves propagate through everyday materials, some materials can carry magnetic waves, which are collective excitations of electronic magnetic moments (or spins). These “spin...

When double-wall carbon nanotubes are combined...

Researchers from CEMES-CNRS have proposed a procedure...
23 novembre 2017, 20h49
Les mécanismes qui gouvernent les déplacements collectifs de bancs de poissons, de nuées d'oiseaux ou de troupeaux de mammifères restent encore mystérieux. Comment les individus interagissent...
23 novembre 2017, 20h49
In a school of rummy-nose tetras, a common aquarium fish, group coordination appears to occur by each fish continuously changing which of its neighbors it pays attention to, according to new...
7 novembre 2017, 10h52
Résumé (voir aussi le Communiqué de presse nationale du CNRS) : Dans nos sociétés numériques et connectées, le développement des réseaux sociaux, des achats en ligne et des systèmes de...
7 novembre 2017, 10h49
Abstract : In our digital and connected societies, the development of social networks,
online shopping, and reputation systems raises the question
of how individuals use social information, and how...
6 novembre 2017, 16h28
A simple spin-12 frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model (AFHM) on the square lattice—including chiral plaquette cyclic terms—was argued to host a bosonic Kalmeyer-Laughlin (KL) fractional...
6 novembre 2017, 16h15
A simple spin-12 frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model (AFHM) on the square lattice—including chiral plaquette cyclic terms—was argued to host a bosonic Kalmeyer-Laughlin (KL) fractional...

Depositing gold on the insulating AlN(0001) surface...

FeRh and MnAs alloys present a magnetic transition as...

Researchers at CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse have...

Cholesteric liquid crystals are ubiquitous in animal...

Most of the geological processes shaping the Earth...
5 juillet 2017, 10h28
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In the two consecutive works published in the Physical Review Letters, experimentalists and theorists have demonstrated...
5 juillet 2017, 10h58
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In the two consecutive works published in the Physical Review Letters, experimentalists and theorists have demonstrated that, contrary...
The goal of the NanoX EUR project is to boost high level collaborative research and education actions in the area of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Toulouse. NanoX aims at promoting Toulouse as one of the world’s highest quality...
21 June 2017, 17h36

Researchers from the CEMES and from the LPCNO have...

A CEMES research team recently demonstrated for the...

Nanocars compete for the first time ever during an...

Nanocars will compete for the first time ever during...

The study carried-out at CEMES has demonstrated that...

Nanocars will compete for the first time ever during...
6 March 2017, 17h19
Fifty years ago, on 1967, March the 6th, the French Academy (of Sciences) was publishing in its reports the research paper titled:
"Pulsed magnetic field of 500 kGs with a slow decay"
Note by Messrs. Salomon Askénazy,...
2 March 2017, 16h31
The main difficulty to generate a very high magnetic field is to contain the huge forces that are applied on the materials constituting the electromagnets. These latter are windings of high conductivity metals,...
2 mars 2017, 14h46

We show that local injection of...
2 mars 2017, 14h15

We show that local injection of...

As a consequence of the cholesteric liquid crystal...
Marc Pousthomis received the Paul SABATIER Prize, endowed by the University Paul Sabatier and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of Toulouse. The award ceremony took place on December 4th in the Hotel of Assézat.
The...
6 January 2017, 15h57

Physicists from the Centre d'élaboration de...

Researchers from CEMES-CNRS and LAAS-CNRS conceived...

The CEMES-CNRS laboratory wishes you a very happy...

The DFT calculations show that the AlN(0001) surface...

The I3EM-CEMES group, in collaboration with the group...
11 octobre 2016, 21h39
Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) antiferromagnets are good candidates to realize a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL), describing 1D interacting quantum systems, provided 3D coupling remains small as...
11 octobre 2016, 21h15
Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) antiferromagnets are good candidates to realize a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL), describing 1D interacting quantum systems, provided 3D coupling remains small as...

September,17 - November, 13
"Quai des Savoirs -...
Le berkelium, appartenant à la série des actinides a un numéro atomique Z=97. Il se désintègre en californium (Z=98) en émettant un électron à raison de 1.2% par semaine et ce dernier se...
2 septembre 2016, 18h24
We developed a microscopic theory of a quantum impurity propagating in a one-dimensional Bose liquid. As a result of scattering off thermally excited quasiparticles, the impurity experiences the...
2 septembre 2016, 17h01
We developed a microscopic theory of a quantum impurity propagating in a one-dimensional Bose liquid. As a result of scattering off thermally excited quasiparticles, the impurity experiences the friction. We...

MnAs is an original magnetic seminconductor as its...
22 July 2016, 15h49
9 juillet 2016, 16h07
En physique des solides, le comportement des systèmes dits fortement corrélés est un sujet d'intérêt à la fois d'un point de vue théorique et expérimental. Ces matériaux ont, en effet, des...
9 juillet 2016, 15h59
In the field of solid-state physics, the behavior of strongly correlated systems is a topic of much interest from both a theoretical and experimental point of view. Indeed, these materials have some...
9 juillet 2016, 15h56
En physique des solides, le comportement des systèmes dits fortement corrélés est un sujet d'intérêt à la fois d'un point de vue théorique et expérimental. Ces matériaux ont, en effet, des...
The MONACAT project (Magnetism and Optics for Nanoparticle Catalysis) is addressing the challenge of the chemical storage of the non-permanent energies. The purpose is to design and synthesize nano-objects presenting both physical and chemical...
25 mars 2016, 11h07
Using high-throughput tethered particle motion single-molecule experiments, the double-stranded DNA persistence length is measured in solutions with Na+ and Mg2+ ions of various ionic strengths....
On October 2015, the 15th, it has been inaugurated the extension of the LNCMI-T, having six wells for experiments, completely secures, in the presence of the authorities (CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, INSA) and the representatives...
NEXT has been assessed by an international jury for its mid-term review by the Commissioner General for Investment and ANR (oral presentation on June 2, 2015 in Paris). The jury recognizes the very great qualities of NEXT: dynamism, attractiveness...
10 July 2015, 17h14
17 juin 2015, 16h38
Using high-throughput tethered particle motion single-molecule experiments, the double-stranded DNA persistence length is measured in solutions with Na+ and Mg2+ ions of various ionic strengths....
11 mai 2015, 09h50
Numerous perturbation theory schemes are based on linked-cluster expansion. They all suffer from the fact that finite graphs have less symmetries than the infinite cluster : for instance, they lack...
11 mai 2015, 09h36
Les techniques de perturbations basées sur un développement en graphes sont très communes en physique. Elles se heurtent à un problème générique du fait des symétries réduites des graphes : par...
17 April 2015, 17h35
Pr. Matthieu Gounelle Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) & équipe de Cosmochimie de l'IMPMC (Jussieu)
« Solar system genealogy revealed by extinct short-lived radionuclides in meteorites »
Short-lived radionuclides are radioactive...

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2015,30, 658-665DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00367E Synchrotron investigation on...

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Dr. Larysa Khomenkova
V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National academy of sciences of Ukraine
« Semiconductor nanoclusters/nanocrystals embedded in oxide films grown by magnetron sputtering »
Semiconductor...
The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the 4th time on February 25, 2015 to select scientific projects in response to the 4th call for proposal.
11 février 2015, 08h31
We present a large-scale exact diagonalization study of the spin?1/2 Heisenberg chain in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire...
11 février 2015, 08h19
We present a large-scale exact diagonalization study of the spin?1/2 Heisenberg chain in a random magnetic field. In order to access properties at varying energy densities across the entire...
6 février 2015, 13h46
Impurities and defects in strongly correlated quantum systems often produce significant effects over an extended spatial region, which can be studied by local probes such as nuclear or electron...
6 février 2015, 13h46
Impurities and defects in strongly correlated quantum systems often produce significant effects over an extended spatial region, which can be studied by local probes such as nuclear or electron...
Participants of the session "Network analysis and applications" of the School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon (June 2014)
The School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon has just been created and aims to promote the development of...

On behalf of the freedom of expression, CNRS invites researchers, engineers, technicians and...

CNRS and the japanese university « Nara Institute of Science and Technology » (NAIST) have...

Dr. Walter KOBLaboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier
« The glass transition: New insights...

PhD thesis (Université de Toulouse, spécialité Nanophysique) entitled:
"Compréhension de la...
29 September 2014, 10h55

The partnership agreement between the Japanese company HHT and CNRS, the representative of the...
22 August 2014, 10h43
26 juin 2014
26 juin 2014, 12h45
Multifractality corresponds to scale-invariant fluctuations which cannot be described by a single fractal dimension.
This property can be found in many problems of classical...
26 juin 2014
26 juin 2014, 12h44
Multifractality corresponds to scale-invariant fluctuations which cannot be described by a single fractal dimension.
This property can be found in many problems of classical...

PhD thesis (University Toulouse 3 - Pole SDM, Cifre funding Soitec) entitled:
Influence of...

Functional Molecular Architectures Based on Multi-Anthracene Assemblies
Dr. Michito Yoshizawa...

Design, synthesis and study of molecules for graphene functionalization The thesis will be...
13 June 2014, 09h27
12 juin 2014, 13h57
Wikipédia regroupe un pan extraordinaire de la connaissance humaine, qui peut être exploité afin d'étudier les relations entre cultures. Dans cette optique, deux scientifiques du LPT, et leurs...
12 juin 2014, 13h49
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate intertwinements between cultures. With this aim in mind, two scientists at the LPT and their collaborators...
23 May 2014, 15h47

Dr. Philippe LAUDET - Project Leader at CNES of the SEIS instrument InSight Mission
"A French...
14 mai 2014, 13h20
We determine the basic phase diagram of the fish school model derived from data by Gautrais et al (2012 PLoS Comput. Biol. 8 e1002678), exploring its parameter space beyond the parameter values...
14 mai 2014, 13h14
We determine the basic phase diagram of the fish school model derived from data by Gautrais et al (2012 PLoS Comput. Biol. 8 e1002678), exploring its parameter space beyond the parameter values...
13 May 2014, 12h43
13 May 2014, 13h29
18 April 2014, 12h00
16 April 2014, 11h57

By controling the 2D growth of Au colloids and by studying teir non-linear optical properties,...

Scientists of the CEMES, in collaboration with scientists of the LSI Ecole Polytechnique, have...
11 March 2014, 17h27
15 January 2014, 15h41

Antonio Checco
Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department Brookhaven National...
The School of Advanced Sciences of Luchon has just been created and aims to promote the development of sciences and technologies as well as interdisciplinary exchanges between students from various scientific domains. It is also a perfect venue to...
9 December 2013, 14h54
18 octobre 2013, 10h18
18 octobre 2013, 09h28
29 septembre 2013, 19h27
We construct a class of projected entangled pair states (PEPS) which is exactly the resonating valence bond (RVB) wavefunctions endowed with both short range and long range valence bonds, and with...
29 septembre 2013, 19h23
We construct a class of projected entangled pair states (PEPS) which is exactly the resonating valence bond (RVB) wavefunctions endowed with both short range and long range valence bonds, and with...

Published in Physical Review Letters
4 septembre 2013, 15h25
The experimental progress (e.g. on strongly spin-orbit coupled nano-wires deposited on a superconductor) in establishing the existence of non-abelian particles is very exciting and is the first...
4 septembre 2013, 15h17
The experimental progress (e.g. on strongly spin-orbit coupled nano-wires deposited on a superconductor) in establishing the existence of non-abelian particles is very exciting and is the first...
CEMES inaugurates new facilities unique in the world: the electron microscope I2TEM and the picoLab building financed amounting to € 18M (CPER 2007-2013). Atoms have been "seen" in the CEMES and molecules and functional nanomaterials have been...
21 mai 2013, 15h45
Recent experiments with alkaline-earth-like cold atoms, such as strontium or ytterbium, have reached the quantum regime. In these systems, the interactions are almost independent of the nuclear spin...
21 mai 2013, 13h59
Recent experiments with alkaline-earth-like cold atoms, such as strontium or ytterbium, have reached the quantum regime. In these systems, the interactions are almost independent of the nuclear spin...
Published on: Scientists of the CEMES, in collaboration with scientists of the LSI Ecole Polytechnique, have succeeded in studying the variation of the 3D structure of a magnetic domain wall in nickel nano-cylinders of diameter between 50 and 90 nm.
Published on: By controling the 2D growth of Au colloids and by studying teir non-linear optical properties, E. Dujardin, A. Arbouet, C. Girard et al. Demonstrate that plasmonic modes can be directly probed by optical microscopy. These results,...
Published on: 2013-02-26
In recognition of the research he has conducted for the last 18 years, mainly at CEMES in Toulouse, Dr. Marc Legros has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research prize from Germany’s Humboldt Foundation....
30 January 2013, 12h41
Researchers from CEMES/CNRS, Leti/CEA and STMicroelectronics have written and edited a book presenting in a simple and practical way the new quantitative techniques based on TEM which have recently been invented or developed to address most of the...
Researchers from Toulouse (CEMES) and Ohio University have developed a molecular motor 2 nm in diameter. This motor can be made to rotate in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction by selec tive inelastic electron tunnelling.
A rotative motor is...
Materials scientists at Toulouse (CEMES) collaborating with ESWCT Airbus (Toulouse) have discovered when studying the nanotube wetting on polymers, that nanotubes placed on a thermoplastic polymer (PEEK) surface diffuse homogeneously in the...
Magnetization and magnetoresistivity measurements have been performed on the isostructural ferromagnetic superconductors UCoGe and URhGe in magnetic fields up to 60 T and temperatures from 1.5 to 80 K. At low temperature, a moment polarization in...
Graphene nanoribbons could potentially be used to create molecular wires with tailored conductance properties. However, understanding charge transport through a single molecule requires length-dependent conductance measurements and a systematic...
Most physical systems tend to order at a low enough temperature, and there are very few exceptions to this rule. For magnetic compounds, such exceptions are called "spin liquids" and over the last two decades, much effort has been made to...
A team of physicists of the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux - (CNRS/ESPCI-ParisTech/UPMC), the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (CNRS/INSA Toulouse/Univ. Toulouse 3/Univ. Grenoble 1) and the Department of...
The new Dual Beam microscope – Focused Ion Beam (FIB) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)–, bought in the frame of the MIMETIS project (EQUIPEX funding) is now fully operational at CEMES. This ensemble, equipped with numerous tools (gas...
In a recent letter published in Europhys. Lett. 99, 66001 (2012), Nicolas Laflorencie from LPT showed using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a lattice bosonic model of stacked superfluid/superconducting layers that a unconventional...
The newest double coil system recently put into operation in Toulouse ’only’ generates magnetic fields up to 81.3 T, i.e., smaller than the american world record (100.75 T generated at the NHMFL Los Alamos), but it offers a record field...
Researchers of the IBM-Zurich Research laboratory, of the CIQUS-Santiago de Compostela and of the NanoSciences Group –CEMES-CNRS Toulouse, have shown it is possible to map the carbon-carbon bond orders within a single molecule of polyaromatic...
Researchers of Toulouse (CEMES), Grenoble (LTM) and Sfax have studied the scattering of light by isolated silicon-germanium nanowires. They showed that the nanowire color can be modified as function of the nanowire diameter, composition and...
An experiment was carried out using the ELFIE laser facility of LULI at Ecole Polytechnique (France) in order to test collimation of high-power produced plasma jets by strong magnetic fields, a topic of interest for so-called laboratory...
Beam splitters exist for matter waves just as for light waves. However, physicists cannot yet manipulate beams of matter as well as beams of light. A novel matter-beam splitter based on crossed lasers provides new control knobs over the matter...
At LNCMI efforts have been performed in order to introduce Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in pulsed high-field magnets. Since pulsed fields of up to 100 T have been reported while the highest continuous fields don’t exceed 45 T, the...
The new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) I2TEM financed by the CPER «MET ultime» and the EQUIPEX project «MIMETIS», is now working in CEMES. I2TEM is the result of cooperation between CEMES-CNRS and Hitachi High technology to design and...
Virginie Serin, Vice Director of the CEMES is Professor at the University Paul Sabatier in physics. She exerted a certain number of responsibilities, at the local, national and international level. Her scientific career, thanks to the...
Researchers from CEMES-Toulouse, IJL-Nancy and synchrotron SOLEIL have identified the most important electron states contributing to the tunnel current in Fe1-xCox/MgO/Fe1-xCox magnetic tunnel junctions. They explained the decrease of the...
The preparation by Spark Plasma Sintering of “all-solid-state” monolithic lithium-ion batteries in few minutes allows to obtain cells with good electrochemical performances, especially at high temperature (› 80°C). The “all-solid-state”...
Carbon nanotubes are the most studied nano-objects worldwide. This book is however stating that carbon nanotubes are barely useful to any application when they are pristine, pure, and perfect, instead of doped, filled, coated, or functionalized....
The LPT is pleased to announce that Mai Dinh is among the Junior laureates for 2012 of the Institut Universitaire de France. Congratulations to her !
After Éric Suraud (Junior in 1994 ; Senior in 2010), Jean Bellissard (Senior in 1995),...
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse and Fraunhofer IISB in Erlangen initiated the foundation of the Wide Bandgap Semi-conductor Alliance WISEA, including the Chair of Electron Devices of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse. The alliance...
CEMES researchers in collaboration with physicists in Spain and The Netherlands are able to use the flexoelectricity of thin films to reach a much higher piezoelectricity than in bulk materials. This research work is carried on in the European...
In a recent letter published in Europhysics Letters, Bertrand Georgeot from LPT and Olivier Giraud from LPTMS in Orsay have studied the complex network describing the sequences of moves in the old Asian game of go.
We have implemented a novel approach for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of magneto-optic phenomena in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Kaiserslautern [1]. Our set up is displayed in fig. 1. It is based on a portable periodic...
The objectives of the “Groupement de Recherches” (GDR) NACRE (Nanocristaux dans des diélectriques pour l’électronique et pour l’optique) is to promote exchanges between researchers studying these nanomaterials, which applications belongs...
This book published by Editions Hermann demonstrates the close collaboration between materials science and social sciences conducted in three laboratories CEMES, LISST-CERS and LPCNO. What does mean "see" the invisible? Artists and researchers...
Develop electronic and photonic components based on Gallium Nitride is the purpose of GANEX, project selected by the ministry of research, for Investment with prospects plan (Labex round 2). CEMES is a partner of GANEX which brings together about...
The scientific council of NEXT "Scientific Advisory Board" (SAB) met for the first time January 24, 2012 to select scientific projects in response to the first call for proposal.
In 2011 we have seen considerable progress in the strength of pulsed magnetic fields.
A new cathode for cold-field emission gun using a pyrolytic carbon-cone supported onto a carbon nanotube as the electron emitting tip has been developed in CEMES. The measured brightness of the carbon nanotube-based tip is 5 times better than...
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This book, including several contributions from CEMES scientists, provides an updated view of the rapidly growing field of mechanical properties of nano-objects like micropillars, nanowires, nanoparticles, nano-precipitates, nano-twins, MEMS, NEMS...
Researchers of CEMES and IMRE (Singapore) set a Guinness World Record with a 1.2nm controllable, molecule-sized gear, which is officially the world’s smallest. The gears are 100,000 times smaller than the width of a single strand of hair.
Gold nanoparticles are patterned into various cholesteric textures, onto a huge variety of substrates (glass, soft plastic, water), by controlling the film thickness and the interfaces. This demonstration offers a simple bottom-up technique for...
The ultrafast dynamics of individual gold nanorings has been studied by femtosecond spectroscopy. The influence of the nanoparticle/substrate interface on the vibration modes is discussed. For the first time, the impact of the surrounding medium...
With the tip of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope we are able to reversibly switch between two stable states a metal organic complex as shown in the scheme. The switch is due to the capture (or loss) of one electron and accompanied by a...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 IRT AESE
The CEMES-CNRS is a partner of the IRT AESE project « Aéronautique, Espace et Systèmes Embarqués » awarded with a 842M€ grant in the IRT («Institut de Recherche Technologique ») call.
Carbon nanotips for Atomic Force Microscopy have been fabricated in CEMES and dipped in a liquid interface. This original method allows investigating the elementary mechanisms, at nanometer scale, which determines droplets spreading. It validated...
This ambitious project, termed Atomic Scale and Single Molecule Logic Gate Technologies (ATMOL), will establish a new process for making a complete molecular chip. This means that computing power can be increased significantly but take up only a...
The CEMES-CNRS rewarded for the MIMETIS project « Interferometric Microscopy and In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy » with a 3.5M€ grant in the EQUIPEX (« Equipement d’Excellence ») call. The MIMETIS project aim to vise à produire...
Who has never observed the self-organisation of a bunch of sand on a vibrating plate to form geometric figures ? The computational physicists of the “Crystalline Materials under Stress” group in Cemes have transposed this principle at the...
The "DiNaMo" UHV Factory equipment has been specially designed for the elaboration under UHV of the 5 levels of interconnection necessary to exchange information with a single molecule or nanoobject. The DUF project was supported by the following...
Peapods are peculiar nano-objects discovered in 1998 (see next image) upon a joint CEMES/University-of-Pennsylvania work (Smith et al., Nature 1998). They are made of a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) whose the inner cavity is filled with...