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Any future for the CNRS ?
So it didn’t take long to the newly elected French government to threaten (again) the CNRS. Now, the transfer of CNRS researchers to universities appears intended, giving a large power to universities deans, and totally weaking the CNRS institution. This...
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Summer 2007 article selection
As member of the OMNT “materials and components for optics” committee, I regularly give a selection and a brief description of articles, that I found particularly relevant to the field. Here is my latest selection : "Generation of optical Schrödinger...
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Winter 2007 article selection
As member of the OMNT “materials and components for optics” committee, I regularly give a selection and a brief description of articles, that I found particularly relevant to the field. Here is my latest selection : " Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding";...
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Review Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence
Emmanuel Fort and Samuel Grésillon recently published a very nice and complete review on surface-enhanced fluorescence. Highly recommended ! Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical research and diagnosis. Improving...
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Latest publication : Direct imaging of photonic nanojets
Published recently in Optics Express, it’s freely available at : http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-10-6930 We investigate the focusing of light by single latex microspheres illuminated by a collimated beam. Measurements are performed...
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OMNT June selection
If you visit this blog, the following articles may be of interest to you, these are my recent papers selection for the OMNT : "Engineered SERS Substrates with Multiscale Signal Enhancement: Nanoparticle Cluster Arrays", B. Yan, A. Thubagere, R. Premasiri,...
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OMNT November selection
If you visit this blog, the following articles may be of interest to you, these are my recent papers selection for the OMNT : “Imaging chromophores with undetectable fluorescence by stimulated emission microscopy ”, Wei Min, Sijia Lu, Shasha Chong, Rahul...
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Charting a course for a (successful?) research career
Found that e-book free online, might be of interest for PhD students / young postdocs: Charting a Course for a Successful Research Career - 2nd edition by Prof. Alan M Johnson As researchers operate in a progressively competitive research environment,...
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Rejection rate at CLEO Europe EQEC
As we had a large number of submitted abstracts but a limited number of slots at the conference, the selection process was very fierce. About 50% of abstracts could be selected for talks, 25% for poster and unfortunately we had to reject about 25% of...
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Invited Talks 2016
In addition to the Benasque NanoLight2016 conference, meet Jerome and get our latest results on optical nanoantennas for fluorescence enhancement at the following conferences (invited talks): - European Materials Research Society EMRS Spring Meeting,...
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[Edit] Wenger on defeat, discipline, Barcelona
Arsene Wenger speaks about Barcelona: "They are better than us, everybody knows that, but I think we could’ve won the game tonight if we kept the discipline until the end." Obviously thinking about ICFO, wasn't he? Let's follow coach Wenger's advice....
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End of year thinking: stay true to yourself
Good period to take some distance from our daily routine and think about ourselves. But who are we by the way? True individuals or mirrors of somebody else? Think of it, and til next time, live like a nanopirate! Warning: the video below is giving the...
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Fresnel diffraction experiment 1/7: official trailer
Is there light in the center of a shadow from a black disk? What is the shadow of a hole milled in an opaque screen? Can adding light to light create darkness? The Institut Fresnel releases a series of short videos answering various questions about light...
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FCS is an art
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NanoRodzzz
Custom design for PHOCCS ERC project. Made @ Fresnel.
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Johann Berthelot joins the ERC team
Since the beginning of November, Johann Berthelot (formerly at ICFO in Romain Quidant's group) has joined the team to work on the ERC ExtendFRET project and develop new optical read-out for enhanced molecular energy transfer.
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Johann Berthelot receives Marie Curie fellowship
Congratulation Johann for this excellent result!
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Tips for writing an ERC proposal
The most complete set of advice is found on Prof. Andreas Zeller's excellent post. Additionally, the EPFL research office has released a very useful pdf document to help during ERC proposal writing. Both highly recommended!
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Carnival in the lab
A freshly shaved CNRS researcher in shirt, a nano space pirate and doughnuts... mmm... lots of doughnuts!!
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New website for Institut Fresnel
The new website for Institut Fresnel has just been released: www.fresnel.fr We are still working on writing some parts, so apologies for any inconvenience. Hope you will enjoy this version.
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Celebrating the 10 years of ERC
Many things change in ten years, the thirst for discovery remains. More links on CNRS celebrating the ERC here and on the ERC grantees within CNRS.
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MOSAIC publications
The Mosaic group website at the Fresnel Institute has been updated, with free (electronic reprint) access to our recent publications http://www.fresnel.fr/mosaic/publications.php
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Happy winter break
Best wishes
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SPP3 conference June 2007
I will attend to the next SPP meeting to be held in Dijon ( France ) next June. In an oral contribution, I shall present our recent results towards the application of nanometric apertures in a gold film to biophotonics applications. Link to SPP3 meeting...
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Now reading...
After the Born & Wolf “Principles of Optics”, here is the “Principles of Nano-optics”, a very well-written textbook reviewing many aspects of nanophotonics by Lukas Novotny and Bert Hecht. Highly recommended !! Click here to read the table of contents...
