Call for Impulsion proposals: outcome of the 2020 edition

IDEXLYON launched a call for IMPULSION projects in July of this year in order to strengthen its attractiveness. Around thirty applicants from this fourth call for projects have been preselected by the Université de Lyon's member institutions. The IDEXLYON Academic Group suggested 24 candidates, who were then approved by the COMEX. Each project will receive on average 54,000 euros in funding for a two-year period. Four researchers from the ENS de Lyon are laureates of the Impulsion 2020 call for projects: Audrey BIENFAIT (Laboratoire de physique) - Quantum circuits for submicron paramagnetic resonance Magnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used to detect and identify paramagnetic species and usually relies on detecting the absorption or emission of microwaves by their spins. As these spins are weakly coupled to the microwave field, its use is restricted to sufficiently concentrated samples. Using quantum circuits techniques, the detection sensitivity can be considerably improved, allowing to probe new types of samples, possibly of sub-micron size.