Photonic technologies offer promising prospects for quantum information processing and simulations. Quantum states are usually encoded in photonic degrees of freedom like polarization and spatial modes, enabling the mimicking of target evolutions via a number of devices linearly growing with their temporal extension. This constraint intrinsically makes them lossy and inadequate for extreme quantum dynamics, […]

A PhD student from the IMDEA Nanoscience research institute in Spain will travel to Canada for an internship at the University of British Columbia. This internship will initiate a new collaboration to develop materials, methods, and devices for detecting a protein malfunction in white blood cells that reflects the emergence of the neurodegenerative disease, amyotrophic […]

The amorphous selenium (a-Se) based active matrix flat-panel imager (AMFPI) has demonstrated promising performance in breast imaging, exhibiting high image quality and dynamic range. However, sensitivity variation due to previous x-ray exposures, known as ghosting, is a common phenomenon in direct conversion detectors, which can lead to the incorrect interpretation of breast images for diagnosis […]

Today’s Canadian children and youth are bigger, weaker and less fit than they were a generation ago. Only 5% of children and youth meet the recommended Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines while spending 8.6 hours per day in sedentary pursuits. These results suggest that Canadian children today do not have the capacity to achieve and maintain […]

The emergence of high-harmonic generation in solids has opened the door to countless new techniques for attosecond control in electronic devices. Simultaneously, quantum materials have become increasingly important for next-generation technologies that exploiting quantum mechanics for computation or sensing. Of particular interest is the family of 2D semiconductors, which are known to host an interesting […]

Avec le réchauffement climatique et les objectifs de réduction des émissions de CO2 à zéro d’ici à 2050, la transition vers l’utilisation de sources d’énergie propres est devenue une réalité incontournable. Le photovoltaïque organique (OPV), développé récemment, s’avère être une excellente alternative vers des matériaux durables et des procédés écologiques. Toutefois, ces cellules sont construites […]

During this dual internship, I will be involved in the PIONEER project (PhotoactIve OrgaNic polymErs for watER treatment). It has been demonstrated that through light irradiation, BTI (benzothioxanthene imide) in water generates hydroxyl radicals (OH•), with their recombination product being hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Hydrogen peroxide serves an antifouling function due to its compatibility with living […]

The quantum internet is predicted to have a substantial impact on our modern society, enabling the transfer of information through networks (so-called quantum networks) with unprecedented security compared to our current, classical protocols. Although small-scale, proof-of-principle quantum network experiments using photons (quanta of light) have already shown great promise, the scaling of these experiments into […]

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Ce projet de recherche est associé au développement d’une technologie verte de recyclage pour des copolymères styréniques tel que le HIPS et l’ABS. Ces deux plastiques sont très utilisés dans les domaines de l’électronique, de l’automobile, et dans la conception d’une myriade d’autres matériaux que nous utilisons tous les jours. La technologie de recyclage de […]