Research Using Synchrotron Light

Employing high-resolution X-rays to diagnose breast cancer – PSI researchers nominated for the European Inventor Award.

The first special magnets required for the upgrade have arrived. In addition, the Canton of Aargau has released 9.75 million Swiss francs for the TOMCAT beamline.

PSI researchers have developed a new substance that disables a vital protein in the cell skeleton.

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

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.

PSI researchers identify potential active agent against several unicellular parasites – including the pathogens that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis.

Linear accelerator, booster ring, storage ring: our 3D graphic of the Swiss Light Source shows the inside of the facility and how it serves research.

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 Swiss Light Source SLS is getting a second hall crane. But how can the 42-metre-long, 40-tonne monster get into the building? The only way is from above.

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.

The University Hospital of Zurich uses proteins made at PSI for Europe’s first large-scale serology study on coronavirus prevalence in Switzerland.

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