Welcome to the Microspectroscopy Group

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The Microspectroscopy Group has a long experience in synchrotron based hyperspectral imaging for a wide variety of materials and involving many different scientific disciplines. In particular we study the nanostructures of novel organic materials and the magnetic properties of thin films and multilayers employing a combination of X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy. We operate two beamlines at the SLS, PolLux and ISS. At these beamlines we perform our research and provide support for external users.

Magnetic Image acquired at PolLux 2.0

First magnetic image at PolLux with SLS 2.0

First magnetic image acquired at the PolLux beamline of the SLS 2.0 DLSR source

3D image of a magnetic skyrmion

Skyrmion topology quantified in 3D

Researchers from an international collaboration between the United States of America and Switzerland have performed three-dimensional magnetic imaging of a magnetic skyrmion using soft X-ray laminography. This allowed for the investigation, in three dimensions, of the topological profile of the magnetic skyrmions.

Snips of 3D spinwave image

Three-dimensional magnonics

Researchers from an international collaboration between Switzerland, Italy, and Germany have performed the first time-resolved imaging at sub-ns timescales of the three-dimensional propagation dynamics of a spinwave in a synthetic antiferromagnetic nanostructured device, opening up the possibility to investigate magnon dynamics in complex three-dimensional geometries.