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.

News and Highlights

10 July 2019

3D magnetic structures

Three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures developed at LMN in collaboration with NUM-LMX and University of Glasgow have been featured on the cover of Materials Today.

3 July 2019

Comenius Medal for eCourse «Ethics in Research»

Dr. Helmut Schift, head of polymer nanotechnology group of LMN and consultant for research integrity at PSI, received the Comenius medal on 27 June 2019 in Berlin. The Comenius-EduMedia-Award is granted for outstanding examples of digital educational media.

1 July 2019

First demonstration of a Germanium laser

Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institut and ETH Zürich, with colleagues from CEA Grenoble, have demonstrated and characterized a technology that, for the first time, yields lasing from strained elemental Germanium. This achievement underlines PSI’s leading role in the development of Silicon-compatible laser light sources.

27 June 2019

Soichiro Tsujino is one of the APL top reviewers of 2018

The editors of Applied Physics Letters (APL) named Dr. Soichiro Tsujino, head of the XFEL nanoengineering group of LMN, as one of the 16 ALP top reviewers in 2018.

27 February 2019

$Cryo-TEM investigation of a free-standing monolayer of a calixarene derivative. The TEM-Picture on the left shows the monolayer deposited on a lacey carbon support. The electron diffraction pattern on the left confirms the formation of a crystalline monolayer$

Supramolecular architectures of molecularly thin yet robust free-standing layers

In a collaboration within the network of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, the formation of free-standing molecular monolayers using self-assembly processes has been demonstrated. The results of the study have been published in the February 2019 issue of Science Advances.

Contact

Laboratory for Micro-
and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Institut
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Head a.i.
Dr. Yasin Ekinci

Secretary
Ms. Anne Sacher

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

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