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Fascinating research,or what are they actually doing there?

In these pages, we would like to present the Paul Scherrer Institute to an interested public in a generally comprehensible way. Here you can learn more about the research topics we are working on and the unique large research facilities we are using to find answers to a variety of scientific questions.

9 June 2023
Werkstücke

500 vacuum chambers for the new ring

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities SLS 2.0

Making the tube through which the electrons will race after the SLS 2.0 upgrade.

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5 June 2023
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PSI researchers use extreme UV light to produce tiny structures for information technology.

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Micro- and Nanotechnology Data Science

Synchrotron light can be used in follow-up after a heart transplant to determine whether the body may be rejecting the new organ.

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30 May 2023
Physikerin Cecilia Casadei

An algorithm for sharper protein films

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light SwissFEL Biology Data Science Fundamentals of Nature

A newly developed algorithm allows measurements performed at X-ray free-electron lasers to be evaluated more efficiently.

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17 May 2023
Spatenstich

Breaking the ground as a game

Miscellaneous PSI campus

Construction of new PSI day-care centre begins.

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12 May 2023
Die Jagd nach dem Protonenradius

Hunting for the radius of a proton

Large Research Facilities Particle physics Research with muons CHRISP Fundamentals of Nature

0.000 000 000 000 840 87 (39) metres – scientists working at PSI have come up with this astonishing figure for the radius of a proton.

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9 May 2023
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Switzerland’s path to the net-zero target

Media Releases Energy and Climate Environment Energy transition

The ETH institutions are pooling their expertise in pursuit of the net-zero target.

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19 April 2023
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Wood: A wild card for the energy transition

Energy and Climate Environment Energy transition

The role of the natural resource for security of supply in Switzerland

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17 April 2023
Methan als Energiespeicher

Methane as an energy store

Energy and Climate Storage Renewable Energies Environment ESI Platform Energy transition

Researchers at PSI and the start-up AlphaSYNT are working together on a solution for efficiently storing energy.

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12 April 2023
Areal Teaser

Always on the pulse of time

Miscellaneous

Presenting two picture galleries to mark the 35th anniversary of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI.

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6 April 2023
Röntgenblick nach Herztransplantationen

X-ray imaging after heart transplantations

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities Biology Health Innovation

Synchrotron light can be used in follow-up after a heart transplant to determine whether the body may be rejecting the new organ.

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5 April 2023
Artist’s impression of the JUICE mission which will explore the Jupiter system.

Jupiter mission to explore conditions conducive to life

Media Releases Miscellaneous Future Technologies Particle physics

Ganymede, Callisto and Europa: Jupiter’s icy moons are the destination of the upcoming ESA mission. On board: a high-tech detector developed by PSI.

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27 March 2023
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How football-shaped molecules occur in the universe

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light

An international research team reveals how fullerene is formed in the universe.

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22 March 2023
Rhodopsin

How vision begins

Media Releases SwissFEL Biology Health Innovation

PSI scientists have discovered the very first step occurring in the eye when light hits the retina.

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17 March 2023
5232

What can’t be bought, we develop ourselves

Large Research Facilities Particle physics

Many components for the experiments the researchers at PSI just develop themselves.

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13 March 2023
Smog in India

Extreme nighttime pollution in New Delhi air explained

Media Releases Energy and Climate Environment

PSI researchers find the cause of high nighttime air pollution in New Delhi

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If, after visiting our Website, you would really like to know what our daily work routine is like – come and visit us. In the psi forum visisitor's centre, we welcome adults and teenagers, either individually or in groups. Homepage psi forum visisitor's centre

For parties of 12 persons and over, we offer a free-of-charge tour through our large research facilities, and for students we have founded the student laboratory iLab. School classes can visit us free of charge for a day, carry out experiments in the laboratory and then see from the large research facilities how the scientific principle studied at iLab is applied in routine research. Homepage student laboratory iLab

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