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Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology (LMN)

 

LMN is dedicated to fundamental and applied research with a focus on:

  • Outstanding nanoscience by exploiting the synergies between advanced micro/nanofabrication and PSI’s large scale facilities, in particular the Swiss Light Source (SLS)
  • Enabling innovations in instrumentation (optics, detectors, diagnostics etc.) for large scale facilities by applying nanotechnology
  • Providing advanced micro- and nanofabrication technologies to academic and industrial users, in particular in the area of polymer nanotechnology.

Latest Scientific Highlights

2 March 2021
Table of Content

Optimization of Nanofluidic Devices for Geometry-Induced Electrostatic Trapping

Single particle studies play an important role in understanding their physical and chemical properties. Electrostatic trapping is on one such robust method that allows for a contact-free high-throughput single nanoparticle trapping in an aqueous environment in a nanofluidic device. However, finding an optimum design solution for stiffer single particle trapping for different particles is a cumbersome process. This work presents all crucial geometrical parameters required to tune the trapping efficiency of the device, and their impact. Furthermore, the work enables to quickly identify and optimize nanofluidic devices design for stronger single particle confinement using numerical simulations, saving the massive experimental time required for device optimization.

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22 January 2021
Manuel Grimm

New blueprint for more stable quantum computers

Matter and Material Quantum Research

PSI researchers have shown how faster and better defined quantum bits can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called rare-earth metals, selectively implanted into the crystal lattice of a material.

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9 November 2020
High-resolution X-ray microscopy of a test pattern with 9 nm line width

World Record: 7 nm Resolution in Scanning Soft X-ray Microscopy

During the past decade, scientists have put high effort to achieve sub-10 nm resolution in X-ray microscopy. Recent developments in high-resolution lithography-based diffractive optics, combined with the extreme stability and precision of the PolLux and HERMES scanning X-ray microscopes, resulted now in a so far unreached resolution of seven nanometers in scanning soft X-ray microscopy. Utilizing this highly precise microscopy technique with the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism effect, dimensionality effects in an ensemble of interacting magnetic nanoparticles can be revealed.

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Latest News

4 February 2021
Robert Kaelin

New group member

Robert Kälin officially joins the Quantum Technologies  group as technician of the Cristallina endstation.

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19 January 2021
Alex Steppke UZH

New group member

Alexander Steppke officially joins the Quantum Technologies group as project coordinator for the collaboration of the Cristallina-Q team and the Laboratory of Quantum Matter (LQM) of Prof. Johan Chang at the University of Zurich (UZH).

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11 January 2021
Iuliia Bykova

New group member

Iuliia Bykova officially joins the group X-ray Optics and Applications as Post-Doc. We wish her every success. 

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Laboratory for Micro-
and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Institut
5232 Villigen PSI
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Dr. Yasin Ekinci

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Ms. Anne Sacher

Tel +41 56 310 2814
Fax +41 56 310 2646
Email: annekathrin.sacher@psi.ch


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