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International, Education
20.07.22
École Polytechnique welcomes American students for a research internship
As they participate in the Optics in the City of Light research experience program, four students from the University of Michigan join École Polytechnique’s laboratories for a two-month internship. Organized with several partners of the University Paris-Saclay, the program focuses on laser research.
Research
09.06.22
Pascal Chabert awarded a CNRS silver medal
Pascal Chabert, CNRS research director at the Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor at École Polytechnique, has just been awarded a CNRS silver medal. It recognises his significant work in the field of plasma physics, with applications for microelectronics and space propulsion.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation
17.05.22
Two X2013 among the Forbes Europe's "30 under 30" 2022 list
David Henri and Paul Lascombes, two of the four founders of Exotrail, are among the 300 under 30 selected by the European edition of Forbes magazine for their innovative projects that are transforming various sectors of the economy and innovating in areas of rapid technological change.
Research
Moyen
04.02.22
A new step forward for spin photodiode physics and technology
An international collaboration involving the Irradiated Solids Laboratory has just published a paper in Physical Review Letters detailing the mechanisms at work for detecting circularly polarised light using spin-optoelectronic devices called spin photodiodes.
Research
01.12.21
Looking back on the 12th European Symposium on Cubesats
With their low-cost and public technologies, small satellites were at the heart of the discussions from 24 to 26 of November at the 12th European...
Research
08.11.21
First meeting of the GDR EMILI on low temperature plasmas
Plasmas represent a state of matter in which electrons are torn from the atoms with which they are usually associated in solids, liquids or gases...
Research
27.09.21
Laser-plasma acceleration awarded by the French Physical Society
The experiments conducted by Cédric Thaury consist in focusing an energetic light beam on a target material in order to create a plasma, i.e. a gas of...
Research
28.07.21
New equipment for the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and astrophysics
Within the framework of a national funding for very large research infrastructures (TGIR), the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and...
10.06.21
XProjets formalizes its processes and its CSR commitment
XProjets' team XProjets, the Junior Enterprise (JE) of l’X, has launched, under the lead of its new board, a business process to better formalize its...
Research
02.06.21
What projects emerge from the arts & science Chair's summer school?
Credits: Antoine Desjardins, artist, professor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - EnsAD and researcher at Ensadlab The first edition of "Useful...
Research
10.05.21
A laser lightning rod
Credit : Pix Videos Production Company Guiding lightning by laser. This could be a superpower. However, this is not a science fiction scenario, but...
Research
09.04.21
A promising enzyme for green chemistry in Science
An international consortium, including many researchers from CEA, CNRS, Inserm, École Polytechnique and the universities of Grenoble Alpes, Paris...