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LNCMI hybrid magnet reaches 42 Tesla
The hybrid magnet at the LNCMI in Grenoble is now reaching 42 T. This level of magnetic field has been achieved for the first time in Europe by combining a...
Heavy fermion systems are a class of strongly correlated
electron systems in which charge carrier can have masses as large 1000 times the free electron mass. This large effective mass often derives from f orbitals...
High-Angular Momentum Excitations in the Collinear Antiferromagnet FePS3
Magnons, or quantized spin waves, are collective magnetic excitations in solids. These boson-like quasiparticles disperse with lattice momentum k, carry a...
High-strength copper/silver alloys processed by cold spraying for DC and pulsed high magnetic Fields
Two teams from LNCMI, located in Grenoble and Toulouse, are gathering their skills and share their involvement to support the development of new conductors...
The new 60 MVA 225 kV/15 kV transformer is in place
The new transformer financed by ERDF funds from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and CNRS is now in place on the CNRS campus in Grenoble! The Laboratoire...
Magnetic and Electric Field Dependent Charge Transfer in Perovskite / Graphene Field Effect Transistors
Perovskite/graphene field effect transistors (FETs) have garnered substantial attention owing to their unique optical properties and potential for...
Layered BiOI Single Crystals Capable of Detecting Low Dose Rates of X-Rays
Modern advances in x-ray imaging have greatly improved the quality of medical care. The ability to detect low doses of x-rays is critical to the development...
The Graphite Princess and the Moiré Pea
Graphite is made out of a stacking of layers of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. This recurring pattern gets disrupted at the surfaces of the...
Influence of High Magnetic Fields on Electrons Undergoing Planckian Dissipation
In certain materials called “strange metals”, the electrical resistivity follows a perfectly linear temperature dependence at low temperature, in contrast to...
Design of novel silver – copper nanocomposite wires to break the usual strength-resistivity trade-off
The generation of record pulsed magnetic fields above 100 T requires the use of coils wound with low- resistivity wires in order to limit the heating, and...
Magnetic breakdown and topology in the Kagome CsV3Sb5 superconductor
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, Hofstra University and LNCMI - Toulouse have carried out quantum oscillation measurements on high-quality single...
Magnetism and Chirality Workshop at the LNCMI
Magnetism and Chirality Workshop at the LNCMI 12 April 2023 bySuper Administrateur Workshop A workshop devoted to ‘Magnetism and chirality’ is being organised...
LNCMI invites applications for a junior professorship
The French Research Programming Law has created a new type of pre-tenure contract called a ‘Junior Professorship’ (CPJ). These positions are offered on...
High pressure tuning of magnon-polarons in a layered antiferromagnet
Layered materials with magnetic properties persisting down to the monolayer 2D limit have recently emerged as platforms to investigate and manipulate exotic...
Magnetically brightened dark excitons in two-dimensional metal halide perovskites
The synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals and nanoplatelets with near-unity photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields, shown schematically in Fig. 1(a), has...
An original vortex network transition finally observed
Van Hove singularities play a major role in the physics of certain systems with strong electronic correlations. These are particular points in the electronic...
Solidarity with the Ukrainian people
As an international research organisation, the EMFL condemns this flagrant violation of international rules. We reject any use of force to settle political...
Beyond 100 Tesla …
Magnetic fields in excess of 100 T can only be generated at the expense of a drastic reduction in pulse duration.Invariably, they also lead to the destruction...
Brightening of dark excitons in 2D perovskites
Optically inactive dark exciton states play an important role in light emission processes in semiconductors because they provide an efficient nonradiative...
Enhanced opto-spintronic functionalities in layered hybrid metal-malide perovskites
Hybrid metal-halide perovskites are known for their simple production as polycrystalline thin films and nanostructures using solution-processing techniques....
Magnetism and superconductivity in UTe2 under high pressure and high magnetic field
The discovery of superconductivity in the heavy-fermion paramagnet UTe2 has attracted a lot of attention, particularly due to the reinforcement of...
Understanding the generation of high-energy cosmic particle rays by magnetic fields in a laboratory environment
Under the influence of magnetic fields associated with astrophysical environments, charged particles can be accelerated to near light-speed in so-called...
5d-oxide based 2D electron system in high magnetic fields
In collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS), researchers from the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI) in...
Magnon-phonon coupling in a 2D antiferromagnet
Applying strong magnetic fields to a van der Waals antiferromagnet, FePS3, we tune the magnon-gap excitation to coincide with the initially lower-in-energy...
FASUM project financed by French ANR EQUIPEX program
FASUM – a 40 T all-superconducting magnet project (coordinating institution: Université Grenoble Alpes - with CNRS and CEA as partners) is financed by French...
Locally commensurate charge-density wave in YBCO
The ubiquity of charge-density waves (CDW) in cuprate superconductors is now well established but key aspects of their microscopic structure are not clear...
Magnetoforming coils with a long lifetime
Since 2013, the LNCMI is collaborating with the Toulouse company Bmax / I Cube Research to design magnetoforming coils with long lifetime. Durability is a...
Dark excitons in metal dichalcogenide monolayers
Excitons are electronic excitations formed by an electron-hole pair. At low energies (below a few hundreds of meV), they control the optical properties of...
Tuning the excitonic properties of 2D perovskites via quantum confinement
In atomically thin 2D crystals, the excitonic properties and band structure scale strongly with the thickness, providing a new playground for the...