News

January 2025

As part of the FemtoMagnet European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, and after installing the NV-center AFM from QZabre LLC, we’ve added the second stage of our new setup this week: a Chameleon Discovery femtosecond laser from Coherent ! This laser delivers pulses of about 100 fs and covers wavelengths 🌈 ranging from 330 nm to 1320 nm, thanks to its frequency doubler. Can't wait to try it all out! 🤩

January 2025

As part of the FemtoMagnet European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, we had the pleasure of welcoming a cutting-edge setup from QZabre LLC to our lab.

This state-of-the-art near-field microscope 🔬, powered by quantum technologies, will enable us to characterize the magnetization 🧲 of our plasmonic nanostructures with unparalleled precision, using diamond 💎 tips equipped with a single NV center.

A huge thank you to Andrea and his exceptional team for their hard work and dedication 💪🏼. We’re thrilled to begin exploring the incredible possibilities this system opens up for our research! 🚀

Mai 2024

Congratulations to Chantal Hareau on her thesis grant! 👏👏 

Starting in October, Chantal will be working on optically induced magnetic fields. 

November 2023

Our paper on the generation of superchiral light nanosources in achiral nanostructures, tunable in wavelength and polarization, is featured on the cover of ACS Photonics.

September 2023

Our article describing a new type of optical antenna behaving like a magnetic monopole is featured on the cover of ACS Photonics.

July 2023

The European Research Council is funding us for a project to manipulate, at ultrafast timescale and at the nanoscale, magnetic domains through the inverse Faraday effect using inversely designed plasmonic structures.

July 2023

Our paper, describing a nanosource of light to monitor the diffusion of biomolecules on the cell membrane, is on the cover of Small.

March 2023

Congratulations to Benoît Reynier for the audience award on his NanoPitch at the Cnano conference explaining the coupling between magnetic light and matter in a poetic and didactic way

January 2023

Congratulations to Xingyu Yang and co-authors for the publication of our paper in Nanophotonics on the generation of an inverse Faraday effect by linear polarization in a plasmonic nanostructure

June 2022

Small Barbecue to celebrate the end of the academic year and the two thesis grants obtained by Homero and Obren!

Congratulations to both of them, and thank you all for this beautiful year that has just passed.

December 2021

Our paper demonstrating the generation of ultrafast and intense pulses of stationary  magnetic fields at the nanoscale has been accepted and is on the cover of ACS Nano 

April 2021

We welcome Ye Mou, a new Master student that will work on Tesla range static magnetic fields  generated by light

February 2021

We welcome Benoit Reynier, a new Master student that will work on magnetic light and matter coupling

January 2021

The french agency of research (ANR) is granting us a project to optically induce Tesla range magnetic field. An opened PhD position is available on this project. 

December 2020

We welcome Lingfei Cui, a new PhD student that will work on chiral light and chiral matter coupling

November 2020

We welcome Éric Charron, a research engineer that will work with us on our different projects.

October 2020

We welcome Xingyu Yang, a new PhD student that will work on magnetic light and matter coupling

July 2020

The National Physics Institute (INP) of France is funding us on a new and exciting project to generate a strong static magnetic field out of light

Mai 2020

Our paper demonstrating the direct modulation of energy transfer between quantum emitters using a photonic nano-antenna has been published in Nanophotonics

October 2019

Congratulation to Cyrine Ernandes who defended a thesis this month.

These 3 years seem to have flown by .

We wish her good luck for her next adventure at the C2N

Mai 2019

Our paper using an evolutionary algorithm to design optical nanostructures has been been chosen as Back Cover in Advanced Optical Materials 

March 2019

Our paper using an evolutionary algorithm to design optical nanostructures has been published in Advanced Optical Materials 

September 2018

Our study on photonic nanoantennas to boost the 'magnetic light' and matter interactions, published in Nanoletters, has been highlighted by the French National Institute of Physics (INP) of the CNRS.

INP Communication

August 2018

Congratulation to Cyrine again for her Poster award at the international NFO conference

July 2018

Congratulation to Cyrine for her Poster award at the international Gold conference