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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
High-level experts from around the world will discuss progress towards achieving energy production from nuclear fusion at an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting next week. The 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) will take place virtually from 10 to 15 May. It is organized by the IAEA and co-hosted by the ITER Organization and the Government of France through the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
Scientists at CEA-Irig, in close collaboration with CEA-Leti, achieved a unique integration of classical electronics with a quantum system. They demonstrate the possibility of measuring current through quantum dots by CMOS circuitry on a single chip cooled to 10 millikelvin, in Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) technology.
Thanks to the first full-length record of the isotopic composition of water vapor from Svalbard (Norway), climatologists at LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ) documented the origin of winter air masses during peak moisture events.
Researchers from CEA-Iramis and their partners refute a widely accepted assertion that the coupling of a Josephson junction to a high resistance is constrained. They thus open the way to new high-impedance devices, previously considered unfeasible.
The sensitivity of direct imaging of extrasolar planets could be increased tenfold by installing, under ESO supervision, the CEA-Irfu-built VISIR instrument on Yepun, one of the VLT telescopes, equipped with an integrated adaptive optics system. A 100-hour campaign in 2019 revealed an image that could be of a planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri A 4.4 light-years away.
All scientific results
ENERGIES | NUCLEAR ENERGY | NUCLEAR FUSION | FUSION THROUGH INERTIAL CONTAINMENT | FUSION THROUGH MAGNETIC CONTAINMENT
HEALTH ＆ LIFE SCIENCES
Under the impetus of Patrick Landais, the High Commissioner, the FOCUS incentive program has selected the Organoids On a Chip (OOC) project to support interdisciplinary synergies between technological sciences and life sciences within the CEA. The objective is to promote the emergence of breakthrough ideas, concepts or technologies in the biomedical field.
MATTER ＆ THE UNIVERSE | ASTROPHYSICS
BRAIN | SIMULATION ＆ MODELLING
EBRAINS (European Brain ReseArch INfrastructureS) is a european research infrastructure designed by the scientific community which, based on a set of state-of-the-art digital platforms, aims to answer the analysis and processing needs of large brain data sets. CEA carries for France EBRAINS inscription on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures roadmap, which was submitted in early September 2020.
PLANETS | SATELLITES | TELESCOPE
CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.