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Materials Research

7 November 2022
ANAXAM

Of fusion reactors, fuel cells, and tin cans

Materials Research

The technology transfer centre ANAXAM has been facilitating access to the material analytics at PSI.

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8 June 2022
Augusta Raurica

Hercules and batteries, X-rayed

Materials Research Future Technologies Research with muons

With muons, PSI researchers can examine objects non-destructively. This helps in archaeology and battery development.

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25 May 2022
Kirsten Moselund

“If you’re in a certain position, you should step forward”

Materials Research Industrial co-operation Micro- and Nanotechnology Quantum Research

Kirsten Moselund heads the new Laboratory for Nano and Quantum Technologies. In this interview she discusses quantum research at PSI and how nanophotonics can assist with this.

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4 April 2022
Blick in die magnetische Zukunft

A look into the magnetic future

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research

PSI researchers are the first to observe a specific behaviour of magnetic ice.

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3 February 2022
Grolimund

Simulant material could aid in Fukushima cleanup

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

A new simulation of the most dangerous radioactive debris from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will help with clean-up efforts.

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20 January 2022
Gabriel Aeppli

Towards compact quantum computers, thanks to topology

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies Quantum Research

In pursuit of particularly stable quantum bits, researchers have closely examined the electron distribution in two semiconductors.

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10 January 2022
SLS 3D

Millions in funding for brain and quantum research

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Biology Health Innovation Future Technologies Quantum Research

The European Research Council approves PSI projects for the development of a quantum computer and brain research worth about 5 million euros.

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22 December 2021
Vladimir N. Strocov

Semiconductors reach the quantum world

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies Quantum Research

Boosted with superconductivity: Semiconductor technology can get a new twist by exploiting quantum effects in superconductors.

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18 October 2021
Ultraschnelle Kontrolle von Quantenmaterialien

Ultrafast control of quantum materials

Media Releases Materials Research SwissFEL

Using light to fundamentally change the properties of solids

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24 September 2021
Christian Schlepütz

X-ray microscopy with 1000 tomograms per second

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

A team at the Swiss Light Source SLS have set a new record using an imaging method called tomoscopy.

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10 September 2021
Das Rätsel der biegsamen Schale

The mystery of the flexible shell

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

Why the shell of a marine animal is soft in water but hard in air.

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1 September 2021
Niels Schröter

Exploring the practical benefits of exotic materials

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies Quantum Research

Niels Schröter receives an award from the Swiss Physical Society (SPG).

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27 July 2021
An old violin

Secret of Stradivarius violins revealed

Research Using Synchrotron Light Large Research Facilities Materials Research Miscellaneous

As an international team of researchers discovered, the old Italian masters Stradivari and Guarneri relied on unexpected chemical additives in making violins.

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19 July 2021
Thorsten Schmitt

Understanding the physics in new metals

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

Together with international colleagues, PSI researchers have now been able to make correlated metals more readily usable for applications in superconductivity, data processing, and quantum computers.

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14 June 2021
skyrmionen

Magnetic nanoworld

Materials Research Future Technologies

At PSI, researchers come across exotic phenomena such as frustrated magnets and nano-vortices, which may one day enable better data storage.

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9 June 2021
Teaser ptychografie

How catalysts age

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies Industrial co-operation

Catalysts used in industry change their material structure over the years. Using a new method, PSI researchers have now studied this on the nanoscale.

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22 April 2021
vorschaubild

Uniquely sharp X-ray view

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research SwissFEL Future Technologies

A new PSI method allows quantum-physical research on materials with the aid of X-ray lasers.

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14 April 2021
Wasser Teaser

Water and quantum magnets share critical physics

Materials Research Future Technologies Quantum Research

At high pressure, liquid water and water vapour merge together – the phase boundary disappears. Researchers have now discovered a similar behaviour in a quantum magnet.

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1 April 2021
Teaser Lemke

Compact and high-performance, like a Swiss Army knife

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research SwissFEL Future Technologies

The X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL really is as high-performance and versatile as planned.

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15 December 2020
Dario Ferreira Sanchez

Look Inside a Chemical Reactor

Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

Operando X-ray spectrotomography allows scientists to look inside of functioning chemical reactors. A research team at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France have employed this method successfully.

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