The PSI Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments focusses on designing novel functional materials in poly- and single crystalline form, as thin films and as multilayers.
Lab News
Prestigioso finanziamento per una combinazione di spin e quantistica
Due in uno: Giacomo Sala unisce al PSI due mondi distinti della fisica – la consolidata spintronica e la giovane geometria quantistica. L’ERC finanzia il suo progetto altamente innovativo con circa 2,2 milioni di CHF. Ciò potrebbe aprire la strada a sistemi di archiviazione dati più efficienti.
Giacomo Sala wins SPS Award in Condensed Matter Physics
Giacomo Sala wins the SPS Award 2026 in Condensed Matter Physics.
Stéphane Nilsson awarded Best Talk Prize
Stéphane Nilsson wins Best Talk award at the Grenoble Workshop on Nanomagnetism
& Scientific Highlights
Pyrochlore Artificial Spin Ice: Advances in Fabrication and Characterization of a 3D Magnetic Metamaterial
Artificial spin ices are magnetic metamaterials consisting of arrays of magnetically coupled nanoscale magnets arranged in various geometries. They display ...
Noncollinear kagome magnet driven by giant antisymmetric exchange
Kagome lattices host exotic phenomena such as quantum spin liquids, topological Weyl nodes, and flat bands. The kagome ferromagnet Co3Sn2S2 has been a focus of debate due to conflicting reports on its magnetic character. Here, using weakly perturbative probes ...
Enhanced Spin-Reorientation Transition and Polarization in DyFeO3 Thin Films
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 ...
Fun Facts about Magnetism
The video is from the Visitor Centre psi forum of the Paul Scherrer Institute, where a cartoon avatar of Rhea Stewart, who was a Postdoc in Mesoscopic Systems, explains about our research to science enthusiasts.
Upcoming Seminars
Information to visitors: The seminars of the group are open to members of PSI and Project Partners, while the group meeting following the seminar is for group members only.
Recent publications
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Benedek P, Zhao X, Bileter ER, Moser A, Forslund OK, Matsubara N, et al.
Surface coatings to mitigate phase separation in LiFePO4 during lithium-ion battery discharge
Matter. 2026; 9(6): 102725 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2026.102725
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Berchialla L, Macauley GM, Museur F, Wang T, Kleibert A, Derlet PM, et al.
Realizing blume-capel degrees of freedom with toroidal moments in a ruby artificial spin ice
ACS Nano. 2026; 20(4): 3423-3434. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c13342
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Biswas B, Yan B, Trassin M, Fuchs D, Pomjakushina EV, Fiebig M, et al.
Enhanced spin-reorientation transition and polarization in DyFeO3 thin films
Advanced Electronic Materials. 2026: (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.70533
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Brock JA, Kurenkov A, Lindenmann DR, Hrabec A, Heyderman LJ
Engineering and exploiting self-driven domain wall motion in ferrimagnets for neuromorphic computing applications
Nano Letters. 2026; 26(16): 5426-5433. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6c00181
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