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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
The CEA, working with ENS Paris-Saclay, and the universities of Rennes and San José (USA), has developed new light-emitting molecules with properties that improve the energy consumption and light production of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). This is the first study correlating the structure and properties of this type of material, which has a promising future in display technologies
A new step has been made in understanding how HIV control mechanisms allow some individuals to manage the infection without any treatment. The CEA-Jacob provides some explanations.
An IPhT researcher and his partners from the Universities of Geneva and Basel have succeeded for the first time in “entangling” the outputs of two optical fibers sharing a single photon at a distance of 2 km. In this amazing feat, they show how a form of quantum entanglement that is simple to produce can be distributed and then detected over long distances. This is an important step towards the construction of a secure quantum internet!
Researchers at the IBS (CEA-Irig) have revealed a previously unknown mechanism for the proliferation of SARS-CoV-2, in which the virus uses immune cells to enhance its own capture and transmission!
Researchers from IRIG [collaboration] publish their solution to create an interface between two crystals without generating dislocations, even though their mesh parameters differ by several percent. This work opens up new possibilities for integrated optoelectronics and photonics on silicon.
Isotopic labeling remains essential for monitoring the in vivo fate of drug candidates. CEA-Joliot researchers have developed high-performance deuterium and tritium labelling techniques.
Inaugurated in March 2019, the joint laboratory between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore and CEA displays its first series of publications co-signed by researchers from NTU, CEA-Iramis, ICSM and DES in Marcoule.
How can the confidentiality of communications be protected if we cannot absolutely trust the devices used to communicate? Researchers from the IPhT, the University of Basel and the ETH Zürich are addressing this question, which is at the heart of quantum cryptography research.
This summer, after being shut down for 20 months, the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) has once again opened its doors to scientists, boasting an X-ray source that is one hundred times more brilliant than before (the EBS, Extremely Brilliant Source). Researchers at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (CEA-IRIG) are involved in designing new experiments using the new beamlines, which are smaller, more brilliant and more coherent.
A team from the CEA-Joliot has developed an MRI technique that makes it possible to acquire multiple parameters and to reconstruct quantitative maps of the brain with different contrasts, crucial for the diagnosis of brain pathologies.
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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.