Laboratory for Multiscale materials eXperiments (LMX)

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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.

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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".

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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 ...


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.

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.

  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI

Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments (LMX)
Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland