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
Making life cycle assessment more accurate
Life cycle assessments are an important basis for political decisions. However, they are often based on incomplete data. A PSI study shows how hybrid methods can deliver more accurate results.
Detecting radioactivity from the air – more accurately than ever
In an emergency, every minute counts. PSI researchers have developed a method by which, in case of a nuclear accident, radioactive material can be identified within seconds and with significantly greater accuracy than before.
New federal collection facility
PSI operates the collection facility for radioactive waste from medicine, industry, and research on behalf of the Swiss federal government. A new building is now planned for this purpose.
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Find out more about our large-scale research facilities and other research centres.
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
Dynamical magnetism in the disordered cubic lattice material 𝛾−Ba3CoNb2O9
𝛾−Ba3CoNb2O9 realizes a disordered simple-cubic spin-1/2 lattice in which Co2+ ions randomly occupy one-third of the sites, placing the system just above the site-percolation threshold for magnetic order ...
Measurement of the neutron incoherent scattering length of 199Hg using stored ultracold neutrons
Physical Review C Editor's suggestion: In this study, the nEDM Collaboration, with the experiment based at the Paul Scherrer Institute, directly investigates this subtle neutron-mercury interaction. The results provide a precise characterization of an important systematic effect, improving the control of a key source of uncertainty in EDM measurements.
The stripe state at 1/8 Ba doping hosts optimal superconductivity in La-214 cuprates under low in-plane stress
The cuprate system La2−xBaxCuO4 (LBCO) exhibits a pronounced sensitivity to in-plane uniaxial stress, particularly near the 1/8 doping anomaly, where stripe order strongly suppresses bulk superconductivity. ...
