With its globally unique research infrastructure, PSI offers unrivalled opportunities for cutting-edge national and international research.
The main areas of research at PSI
Recent highlights from our research
A surprising twist in the quantum world
An effect known from ball sports also appears in interactions of light and matter. Researchers at PSI have now directly observed this optical phenomenon for the first time.
First positrons for the Future Circular Collider
At Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, positrons have been successfully produced at a test source for CERN’s proposed next-generation particle collider.
Demonstration plant for sustainable aviation fuel inaugurated
On August 20, the inauguration ceremony for a new plant on the PSI campus took place. Here the production of sustainable aviation fuel is being tested: synthetic kerosene produced in an exceptionally efficient way.
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Research Centers & Labs
Our research and service centres conduct internationally recognised cutting-edge research in the natural and engineering sciences and make highly complex large research facilities available to science and industry for their own research projects.
Scientific Highlights from our Centers
Unconventional Superconductivity in ScIr2 Chiral Crystal With a Kagome Lattice
Materials with a kagome lattice host exotic quantum phenomena driven by the interplay between band topology, spin–orbit coupling, magnetism, and electronic correlations. While the magnetism of kagome materials ...
Pressure-invariant isotope effect as evidence for electronically driven intertwined order in Pr4Ni3O10
We report muon-spin rotation measurements of the pressure dependence of the oxygen-isotope (16O / 18O) effect on the spin-density wave (SDW) transition in the trilayer Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate Pr4Ni3O10. At ambient pressure ...
Supersampled Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy
Researchers from a Swiss-German collaboration have developed a new method for scanning transmission X-ray microscopy substantially reducing the impact of mechanical vibrations and imaging overheads, allowing for routine high-resolution imaging experiments
