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
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 ...
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 ...
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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Thaman HL, Li M, Rose JA, Narasimhan S, Xu X, Yeh CN, et al.
Two-stage growth of solid electrolyte interphase on copper: imaging and quantification by Operando atomic force microscopy
ACS Nano. 2025; 19(12): 11949-11960. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16418
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Riordan E, Ciomaga Hatnean M, Balakrishnan G, Lefmann K, Ollivier J, Raymond S, et al.
Inelastic neutron scattering study of the magnetic field dependence of the quantum dipolar garnet Yb3Ga5O12
Physical Review B. 2025; 111(21): 214419 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/r5md-t5z7
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Liu Y, Balakrishnan G, Ciomaga Hatnean M, Xiao P, Chen Y
Anisotropic fracture in gadolinium zirconate single crystal: micromechanical testing and modelling
Acta Materialia. 2025; 289: 120944 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.120944
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Scagnoli V, Skjærvø SH, Massey JR, Sendetskyi O, Leo N, Mazzoli C, et al.
Stretched exponential magnetic relaxation dynamics in artificial square ice revealed through x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
Physical Review B. 2025; 112(18): 184407 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/jyf8-4g92
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