The PSI Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments focusses on designing novel functional materials in poly- and single crystalline form, as thin films and as multilayers.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
Anne Flechsig receives the SVMT Prize 2025
On 24th January 2025, Anne Flechsig was awarded the prestigious SVMT Prize for her outstanding master's thesis on "Spatial Patterning of Structural and Transport Properties of Tungsten Thin Films".
Mapping the Nanoscale Architecture of Functional Materials
A new X-ray technique reveals the 3D orientation of ordered material structures at the nanoscale, allowing new insights into material functionality.
Ferromagnetic quantum critical point protected by nonsymmorphic symmetry in a Kondo metal
Quantum critical points (QCPs), zero-temperature phase transitions, are win- dows to fundamental quantum-mechanical phenomena associated with universal behaviour. Magnetic QCPs have been extensively investigated in the vicinity of antiferromagnetic order. However, QCPs are rare in metallic ferromagnets due to the coupling of the order parameter to electronic soft modes. Recently, antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling in noncentrosymmetric systems was suggested to protect ferromagnetic QCPs. Nonetheless, multiple centrosymmetric materials ...
Fun Facts about Magnetism
The video is from the Visitor Centre psi forum of the Paul Scherrer Institute, where a cartoon avatar of Rhea Stewart, who was a Postdoc in Mesoscopic Systems, explains about our research to science enthusiasts.
Upcoming Seminars
Information to visitors: The seminars of the group are open to members of PSI and Project Partners, while the group meeting following the seminar is for group members only.
Publications
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Liang Z, Bu T, Lyu Z, Liu Z, Hrabec A, Wang L, et al.
Ultrafast probabilistic neuron in an artificial spin ice for robust deep neural networks
Advanced Functional Materials. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202417334
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Porée V, Gawryluk DJ, Shang T, Rodríguez-Velamazań JA, Casati N, Sheptyakov D, et al.
YB a1-xSrxCuFeO5 layered perovskites: An attempt to explore the magnetic order beyond the paramagnetic-collinear-spiral triple point
Physical Review B. 2024; 110(23): 235156 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.235156
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Fogh E, Giriat G, Zayed ME, Piovano A, Boehm M, Steffens P, et al.
Spin waves and three dimensionality in the high-pressure antiferromagnetic phase of SrCu2 (BO3)2
Physical Review Letters. 2024; 133(24): 246702 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.246702
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