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The W. G. Cady Prize awarded to Serge GALLIOU at the IEEE IFCS 2019

This award recognizes Serge Galliou's exceptional and pioneering contributions in the development of cryogenic acoustic resonators with extremely high quality factors (very low mechanical losses) for sensor, oscillator or fundamental physics applications.

Awarded annually since 1983, the Cady Prize is an international scientific recognition of the  "IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics & Frequency Control Society" which, this year, honours Professor Galliou's innovative research on the behaviour of quartz resonators at very low temperatures. His work has made it possible to experimentally determine the ultimate limits of oscillators based on volume acoustic wave resonators. They have improved knowledge of limitations due to mechanical losses and thermal noise thanks to an original tool (cryogener) and more fundamental means of investigation (analysis of acoustic wave/thermal photon interactions, measurement of elastic coefficients).

This work is of great interest to many researchers involved in astronomy programs on gravitational waves, whose detection uses materials with very low losses, and quantum measurements.

  • Nonlinear Optics and Supercontinuum Symposium

    A one day “Nonlinear Optics and Supercontinuum Symposium” will be held on Friday 20 September in the Amphi FEMTO in honour of Professor Chinlon Lin who will be here in Besançon during this time.

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  • European Time and Frequency Seminar (EFTS)

    The European Frequency an Time Seminar (EFTS) will be held from Monday, August 16 to friday, August 30 2013.

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  • Two ERC Grants for FEMTO-ST Institute in 2011

    Prof John DUDLEY & Dr Yanne CHEMBO from the Optics Depmarment of FEMTO-ST Institute (UMR 6174 CNRS-Université de Franche-Comté) have both received a financial Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to support the top level scientific excellence of their research projects

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  • Michel planat makes the Insights News of the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

    Michel Planat's Insights news article "Quantum computing with Riemann hypothesis" is now available on the journal's website and can be viewed at http://iopscience.iop.org/1751-8121/labtalk-article/45421. This news article is based on the recent paper published by the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.

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  • Summer school in Microrobotics and Self-assembly for hybrid MEMS

    The general context of the summer school concerns the micromanipulation and assembly of such complex microsystems. From the state-of-the-art, integration technologies for heterogeneous microsystems are based on Microrobotics or Self-assembly approaches.

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  • 4M conference 2010

    Co-organized by FEMTO-ST, 4 M conference will take place in Oyonnax (France) from November 17th to 19th.

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  • d-MEMS 2010 – Besançon June 28-29th

    FEMTO-ST and LIFC organize the 1 st workshop on design, control & software implementation for distributed MEMS

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  • Vehicular Power Propulsion Conference - Lille 2010

    FEMTO-ST co-organize The 2010 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC) in Lille
    For more informations : http://vppc2010.univ-lille1.fr/

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  • Conference 'Seizing the Opportunity in Nano-Photonics'

    A conference concerning Photonics will take place in FEMTO-ST on Friday 3rd of April at 2pm.

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  • Best Poster Award: Younes Makoudi@Elecmol08

    Younes Makoudi, PhD@FEMTO-ST, won the best poster award during the Elecmol08 international conference in Grenoble on December 12 (www.elecmol.com). The aim of his work is the adsorption of functional molecules on surfaces which plays a vital role in the emerging field of nanoelectronics.

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