Matter and Material

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

Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg will set up a novel experiment at a muon beamline at PSI.

PSI develops a revolutionary achromatic lens for X-rays.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The path to experiments that are unique in the world is now open.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Researchers are looking for deviations in the current standard model of physics and want to find out how our universe is constructed.

In experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, an international research collaboration has measured the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium five times more precisely than ever before. The new value can be used to test fundamental physical theories.