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Laboratory Days 2022

Laboratory Days 2022

On the Normandy coast, at the foot of the dunes of Merville Franceville, the MPQ laboratory days took place from Monday, May 30th to Wednesday, June 1st, 2022. The MPQ days, organized by Sandrine, Adrien, Zakari, and Nathalie, were a wonderful moment of camaraderie...

Hybrid heterostructures for spintronics

Hybrid heterostructures for spintronics

Spintronics is a quantum technology that aims to add the quantum spin degree of freedom to conventional CMOS electronics. Since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance in 1988 by Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg, considered the birth of this field, spintronics has...

Supraconductivity Thematic Days of the GDR Meetic

Supraconductivity Thematic Days of the GDR Meetic

Two thematic days on superconductivity, as part of the GDR Meetic, are being organized on December 6th and 7th by Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto (MPQ), and D. Colson (CEA-Saclay). They will take place in the Buffon amphitheater at the University of Paris (15 Rue...

A light-controlled mechanical frequency comb

A light-controlled mechanical frequency comb

Through optomechanical experiments in a semiconductor micro-resonator, researchers from the DON team of the MPQ laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, have shown that a coupling between different forms of energy can give rise...