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Eccellenza Professorship to Lea Caminada
Dr Lea Caminada has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship.
Rendre possible l'impossible
L'utilisation de matériaux multiferroïques devrait ouvrir la voie vers des ordinateurs plus économes en énergie. Avec eux, il suffirait en effet d'un champ électrique pour assurer le stockage magnétique des données. Des chercheurs du PSI viennent de rendre un matériau de ce genre utilisable aux températures de fonctionnement d'un ordinateur.
Marc Janoschek appointed new head of LDM
Dr Marc Janoschek has been appointed new head of the NUM Laboratory for Scientific Developments and Novel Materials LDM. He will take office on November 15, 2018. Marc studied Physics at TU Munich and did his PhD at PSI and TUM on "Neutron Scattering on Chiral Magnets". After that he went to the University of California in San Diego as Feodor-Lynen Fellow. Since 2011 he is head of "Neutron research" in the "Condensed Matter and Magnet Science" group in Los Alamos. For his research Marc has been awarded the Wolfram Prandl Prize and the Los Alamos Fellow Prize for Outstanding Research. We wish Marc success and satisfaction for his new duties and wish to thank cordially Peter Keller, who led the LDM ad interim since March 2018.
Founding Partners Sign Charter Establishing Neutron Source Consortium LENS
On September 12 representatives of eight European research infrastructures including SINQ at PSI signed the Charter of the League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) at the International Conference of Research Infrastructures, ICRI2018 in Vienna. The signing ceremony marks the establishment of a new strategic consortium of European neutron source facilities with the aim, according to the charter, to “facilitate any form of discussion and decision-making process that has the potential to strengthen European neutron science via enhanced collaboration among the facilities”. The founding partners in the consortium include both European and national facilities in France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland. Other qualifying facilities are invited to join at any time.
ISNR honorary membership awarded to Eberhard Lehmann
The International Society for Neutron Radiology ISNR was founded in 1996 with the aim to organize regular conferences with the focus on the use of neutrons for imaging purposes. During the 11th World Conference on Neutron Radiography, held recently in Sydney (Australia) and organized by ANSTO, the Honorary Membership of ISNR was awarded to Eberhard Lehmann - in recognition to his contributions for the progress in the field of neutron imaging on national and international level. The Neutron Imaging and Activation Group NIAG of the LNS has been active member in ISNR from the very beginning. Presently and since 2014, Markus Strobl the head of NIAG is vice-president elected of ISNR – and was reelected recently until 2022. In addition, NIAG member Pavel Trtik is now representing PSI in the ISNR board until 2022.
Radiographie neutronique d'aiguilles hypodermiques
Des chercheurs de l'Institut Paul Scherrer PSI, de l'Université de Bâle et de la société F. Hoffmann-La Roche ont recouru à un procédé d'imagerie neutronique afin d'analyser le rôle décisif que joue l'entreposage frigorifique des seringues médicales préremplies.
De l'Empereur doré au Bouddha garni
A l'Institut Paul Scherrer PSI, on radiographie des objets métalliques antiques avec des neutrons. Les chercheurs peuvent ainsi identifier ce qu'ils renferment, la manière dont ils ont été fabriqués et comment les conserver.
Le travailleur de force du val Mesolcina
Aldo Antognini a la physique et la convivialité dans le sang. Aldo Antognini, chercheur au PSI, a reçu plus de 2 200 000 francs de l’UE pour sa nouvelle expérience. Son objectif: déterminer la répartition du magnétisme dans le proton. Pour y arriver, ce physicien des particules devra mettre ses talents scientifiques et techniques à contribution, mais aussi son entregent.
Plongée dans un aimant
Pour la première fois, des chercheurs ont réussi à visualiser les directions de l'aimantation dans un objet magnétique tridimensionnel. Les plus petits détails de leur visualisation mesuraient moins d'un dixième de millième de millimètre. Un type de motif exceptionnel est ressorti dans la structure qu'ils ont fait apparaître: des singularités magnétiques appelées points de Bloch, jusque-là connues uniquement en théorie.