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 & Scientific Highlights
Lauren Riddiford Abstract Prize by the European Magnetism Association
Lauren Riddiford created a winning video abstract which accompanied her talk, “Engineering Local Magnetic Energy Landscapes in Thin Films” as part of a cycle of online seminars delivered on June 13, 2024
Discovery of Nodal-Line Superconductivity in Chiral Crystals
Chiral crystals, whose key feature is the structural handedness, host exotic quantum phenomena driven by the interplay of band topology, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and electronic correlations. Due to the limited availability of suitable chiral-crystal materials, their unconventional superconductivity (SC) remains largely unexplored.
Here, the discovery ...
A New Quantum Landscape: Coexisting High-Tc Superconductivity, Magnetism, and Complex Charge Order in LaRu3Si2.
Despite intense research on kagome superconductors, many fundamental questions remain—especially regarding the unconventional nature of their charge order and superconducting phases. These materials are rich in complexity, and to truly unravel their behavior, a broad and integrated approach is essential. In our study ...
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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Fjellvåg ØS, Park H, Veillon F, Lyu J, Medarde M, Amedi SB, et al.
ACrF3 Jahn–Teller-distorted fluoroperovskites: expanding to RbCrF3 and CsCrF3
Inorganic Chemistry. 2025; 64(36): 18316-18322. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c02668
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Parchenko S, Hofhuis K, Larsson AÅ, Kapaklis V, Scagnoli V, Heyderman LJ, et al.
Plasmon‐enhanced optical control of magnetism at the nanoscale via the inverse Faraday effect
Advanced Photonics Research. 2025; 6(1): 2400083 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202400083
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Shang T, Zhao J, Hu LH, Wu W, Xia K, Ajeesh MO, et al.
Discovery of nodal-line superconductivity in chiral crystals
Advanced Materials. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202511385
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Rameshbabu S, Pergolesi D, Müller A, Vockenhuber C, Lippert T, Bleiner D
Epitaxial and stoichiometric La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 thin films with a mobile pulsed laser deposition system
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing. 2025; 131(9): 667 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-025-08817-z
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