- Home
- News
News
Aurore Finco from L2C awarded the 2026 CNRS Bronze medal
Aurore Finco from L2C has been awarded the 2026 CNRS Bronze Medal in recognition of her work on the development and application of diamond-based quantum sensors for nanomagnetism and spintronics. Congratulations to Aurore!
We welcome one new PhD!
Tilly Guyot joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to Tilly!
We welcome one new PhD!
Priya Maurya joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to Priya!
Anaïs Dréau, recipient of the 2025 Gustave Ribaud Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Gustave Ribaud Prize to Anaïs Dréau. Congratulations!
Guillaume Cassabois, laureate of the 2025 Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society (SFP).
The French Physical Society has awarded the 2025 Grand Prix Jean Ricard to Guillaume Cassabois. Congratulations!
We welcome a new post-doctoral fellow and a new long-term intern!
Florie Mesple and Lucas Moreau-Lalaux have joined our group for a postdoctoral position and an internship. Welcome to Florie and Lucas!
Published in Physical Review Letters: Thermal spin wave noise as a probe for the Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction
Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 136703 (2025)
Published in Les reflets de la physique: Le centre coloré NV du diamant : un capteur quantique multifonctionnel
Reflets phys. 81, 17-22 (2025)
Published in Nano Lett.: Charge State Tuning of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Nano Lett. 25, 14, 5836 (2025)
Published in Nature materials: Wafer-scale AA-stacked hexagonal boron nitride grown on a GaN substrate
Nat. Mater. 24, 843–851 (2025)
Published in Phys. Rev. X: Hopping of the Center-of-Mass of Single G Centers in Silicon-on-Insulator
Phys. Rev. X 14, 041071 (2024)
Published in Nanoletters: Impact of Thickness-Dependent Nanophotonic Effects on the Optical Response of Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Nano Lett. 24, 12915 (2024)
We welcome one new post-doctoral fellow!
Aditi Moghe joined our group for a post-doctorate in collaboration with LNCMI Grenoble. Welcome to Aditi!
We welcome four new PhDs!
Roméo Beignon, Alicia Morandini, Jessica Tournaud and Elijah Wane joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to all of them!
Published in Nano Lett.: Homoepitaxy of Boron Nitride on exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride flakes
Nano Lett. 24, 6990 (2024)
Published in Nat. Mater.: Electric-field-induced multiferroic topological solitons
Nat. Mater. 23, 905 (2024)
Published in Science: Fast current-induced skyrmion motion in synthetic antiferromagnets
Science 384, 307 (2024)
Published in ACS Photonics: Purcell Enhancement of Silicon W Centers in Circular Bragg Grating Cavities
ACS Photonics 11, 24 (2024)
We welcome two new PhDs!
Alexandra Ibanez and Carolin Schrader joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to both of them!
We welcome one new post-doctoral fellow!
Krithika Velliyur Ramachandran joined our group for a post-doctoral fellowship in the team. Welcome to Krithika!
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Isotopic Control of the Boron-Vacancy Spin Defect in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 126901 (2023)
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Optically Active Spin Defects in Few-Layer Thick Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116902 (2023)
Guillaume Cassabois appointed Senior member of the IUF
Guillaume Cassabois is appointed Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France in the 2023 Fundamental Chair category. Congratulations to Guillaume!
Published in Phys. Rev. Applied: Magnetic Imaging with Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Phys. Rev. Applied 18, L061002 (2022)
We welcome four new PhDs!
Juliette Plo, Tristan Clua-Provost, Félix Cache and Elias Sfeir joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to all four!
Published in Nat. Comm.: Decoherence of VB− spin defects in monoisotopic hexagonal boron nitride
Nat. Comm. 13, 4347 (2022)
Published in ACS Photonics: Detection of Single W-Centers in Silicon
ACS Photonics 9, 2337 (2022)
We welcome one new post-doctoral fellow!
Zhao Mu joined our group as a post-doctoral fellow. Welcome to Zhao!
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Imaging Topological Defects in a Noncollinear Antiferromagnet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 187201 (2022)
Anaïs Dréau from L2C awarded the 2022 CNRS Bronze medal
Anaïs Dréau from L2C was awarded the 2022 CNRS Bronze medal for her works on point defects in silicon for quantum technologies. Congratulations to Anaïs!
Published in Phys. Rev. Applied: Quantitative Imaging of Exotic Antiferromagnetic Spin Cycloids in BiFeO3 Thin Films
Phys. Rev. Applied 17, 044051 (2022)
Published in Phys. Rev. X: Exciton and Phonon Radiative Linewidths in Monolayer Boron Nitride
Phys. Rev. X 12, 011057 (2022)
Published in ACS Nano: Bernal Boron Nitride Crystals Identified by Deep-Ultraviolet Cryomicroscopy
ACS Nano 16, 2756 (2022)
Published in Nanoletters: Monolayer Boron Nitride: Hyperspectral Imaging in the Deep Ultraviolet
Nano Lett. 21, 10133 (2021)
We welcome a new PhD and a new post-doctoral fellow!
Vicente Santibanez joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome also to Pawan Kumar who joined us as a post-doctoral fellow!
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Flat Bands and Giant Light-Matter Interaction in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 137401 (2021)
Published in Phys. Rev. Materials: Determination of the optical bandgap of the Bernal and rhombohedral boron nitride polymorphs
Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 064602 (2021)
Published in Nat. Commun.: Antiferromagnetic textures in BiFeO3 controlled by strain and electric field
Nat. Commun. 11, 1704 (2020)
Published in ACS Nano: Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystal Growth from Iron, a Single Component Flux
ACS Nano 15, 7032 (2021)
Published in Phys. Rev. Materials: Characterization of room-temperature in-plane magnetization in thin flakes of CrTe2 with a single-spin magnetometer
Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 034008 (2021)
Published in Nat. Commun.: Imaging non-collinear antiferromagnetic textures via single spin relaxometry
Nat. Commun. 12, 767 (2021)
Published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Broad Diversity of Near-Infrared Single-Photon Emitters in Silicon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083602 (2021)
Published in Nat. Electron.: Single artificial atoms in silicon emitting at telecom wavelengths
Nat Electron 3, 738 (2020)
We welcome one new PhD!
Adrien Rousseau joined our group for a PhD in the team. Welcome to Adrien!
Published in Phys. Rev. Applied: Room-Temperature Skyrmions at Zero Field in Exchange-Biased Ultrathin Films
Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 044079 (2020)
Published in AIP Advances: Optimal architecture for diamond-based wide-field thermal imaging
AIP Advances 10, 025027 (2020)
Published in Nanoletters: Strongly Confined Excitons in GaN/AlN Nanostructures with Atomically Thin GaN Layers for Efficient Light Emission in Deep-Ultraviolet
Nanoletters 20, 158 (2020)
Published in Nature Materials: Electric and antiferromagnetic chiral textures at multiferroic domain walls
Nature materials 19, 286 (2020)
