Scientific Highlights Titel Datum Year Year201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008 Month MonthJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember 7 May 2019 New material also reveals new quasiparticles Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material at the Swiss Light Source SLS that exhibits electronic properties never seen before. Among other things, they were able to detect a new type of quasiparticle: so-called Rarita-Schwinger fermions. 1 April 2019 HERCULES school 2019 at SLS In the week of April 1-5 PSI welcomes 20 PhD students and postdocs taking part in the European HERCULES 2019 school on Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation. They will attend lectures and perform two days of practical courses at several beam lines of the Swiss Light Source. 1 March 2019 Towards X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy at SwissFEL The high brilliance of new X-ray sources such as X-ray Free Electron Laser opens the way to non-linear spectroscopies. These techniques can probe ultrafast matter dynamics that would otherwise be inaccessible. One of these techniques, Transient Grating, involves the creation of a transient excitation grating by crossing X-ray beams on the sample. Scientists at PSI have realized a demonstration of such crossing by using an innovative approach well suited for the hard X-ray regime. 15 February 2019 Watching electrons and switching bits on Micro- and Nanotechnology Energy and Environment Matter and Material Materials Research Industrial co-operation Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons Electronics should get smaller, faster, and above all more energy-efficient. These themes are also present in several research groups at PSI. From incremental improvements to complete rethinking – who is currently working on what? 1 February 2019 Virtual lens improves X-ray microscopy Media Releases Matter and Material Research Using Synchrotron Light A method developed by PSI researchers makes X-ray images of materials even better. The researchers took a number of individual images while moving an optical lens. From these, with the help of computer algorithms, they generated one overall image. 30 January 2019 Now it's time for something new SwissFEL Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons Research with muons If you make electronic components smaller, they unfortunately get hotter. Also, we will soon reach the limit of technically feasible miniaturisation. At PSI, Gabriel Aeppli and Christian Rüegg are working on fundamentally new, physical solutions for better computers and data storage devices. 4 January 2019 Dr Yasin Ekinci elected as Fellow of SPIE Dr. Yasin Ekinci, Head of the Advanced Lithography and Metrology Group and ad interim Head of the Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology, has been elected to the grade of Fellow of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). 1 January 2019 SESAME beamline for tomography project (BEATS) is launched On 1st January 2019, the European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) was launched with the objective to design, procure, construct and commission a beamline for hard X-ray full-field tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan. The European grant is worth 6 million euros and will span a four-year period from beginning 2019 to end 2022. 1 January 2019 Dr Mirjam van Daalen appointed as Swiss ESFRI delegate Dr. Mirjam van Daalen Chief of staff of the Photon Science Division, was mandated on the 1st of January 2019, by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI as a member of the Swiss Delegation to the European Science Forum on Research Infrastructures ESFRI https://www.esfri.eu/. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Next page ›› Last page Last » Sidebar Contact Photon Science Division Paul Scherrer Institut WSLA/116 5232 Villigen-PSI Switzerland Head of Division Prof. Dr. Gabriel Aeppli +41 56 310 4232gabriel.aeppli@psi.ch Personal Assistant to Prof AeppliPSD-Administration Elizabeth Härdi-Bianchi +41 56 310 4377elizabeth.haerdi-bianchi@psi.chpsd-admin@psi.ch Laboratories LSB LSC LSF LMN LAP LNO Facilities Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) Swiss Light Source (SLS) LMN Clean Room
7 May 2019 New material also reveals new quasiparticles Media Releases Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material at the Swiss Light Source SLS that exhibits electronic properties never seen before. Among other things, they were able to detect a new type of quasiparticle: so-called Rarita-Schwinger fermions.
1 April 2019 HERCULES school 2019 at SLS In the week of April 1-5 PSI welcomes 20 PhD students and postdocs taking part in the European HERCULES 2019 school on Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation. They will attend lectures and perform two days of practical courses at several beam lines of the Swiss Light Source.
1 March 2019 Towards X-ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy at SwissFEL The high brilliance of new X-ray sources such as X-ray Free Electron Laser opens the way to non-linear spectroscopies. These techniques can probe ultrafast matter dynamics that would otherwise be inaccessible. One of these techniques, Transient Grating, involves the creation of a transient excitation grating by crossing X-ray beams on the sample. Scientists at PSI have realized a demonstration of such crossing by using an innovative approach well suited for the hard X-ray regime.
15 February 2019 Watching electrons and switching bits on Micro- and Nanotechnology Energy and Environment Matter and Material Materials Research Industrial co-operation Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons Electronics should get smaller, faster, and above all more energy-efficient. These themes are also present in several research groups at PSI. From incremental improvements to complete rethinking – who is currently working on what?
1 February 2019 Virtual lens improves X-ray microscopy Media Releases Matter and Material Research Using Synchrotron Light A method developed by PSI researchers makes X-ray images of materials even better. The researchers took a number of individual images while moving an optical lens. From these, with the help of computer algorithms, they generated one overall image.
30 January 2019 Now it's time for something new SwissFEL Matter and Material Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light Research Using Neutrons Research with muons If you make electronic components smaller, they unfortunately get hotter. Also, we will soon reach the limit of technically feasible miniaturisation. At PSI, Gabriel Aeppli and Christian Rüegg are working on fundamentally new, physical solutions for better computers and data storage devices.
4 January 2019 Dr Yasin Ekinci elected as Fellow of SPIE Dr. Yasin Ekinci, Head of the Advanced Lithography and Metrology Group and ad interim Head of the Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology, has been elected to the grade of Fellow of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
1 January 2019 SESAME beamline for tomography project (BEATS) is launched On 1st January 2019, the European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) was launched with the objective to design, procure, construct and commission a beamline for hard X-ray full-field tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan. The European grant is worth 6 million euros and will span a four-year period from beginning 2019 to end 2022.
1 January 2019 Dr Mirjam van Daalen appointed as Swiss ESFRI delegate Dr. Mirjam van Daalen Chief of staff of the Photon Science Division, was mandated on the 1st of January 2019, by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI as a member of the Swiss Delegation to the European Science Forum on Research Infrastructures ESFRI https://www.esfri.eu/.
