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
The Charpak-Ritz Prize 2026 is awarded to Laura Heyderman
Since 2016, the Charpak-Ritz Prize has been jointly awarded by the French Physical Society and the Swiss Physical Society to a physicist or a team for outstanding contributions to physics or its advancement.
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 ...
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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Naamneh M, O’Quinn EC, Paris E, McNally D, Tseng Y, Pudełko WR, et al.
Persistence of small polarons into the superconducting doping range of Ba1−xKxBiO3
Physical Review Research. 2025; 7(4): 043082 (15 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/s3p1-cy1s
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Aegerter D, Fabbri E, Novotny Z, Borlaf M, Yüzbasi NS, Comini N, et al.
Evaluation of dip-and-pull ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for investigating oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts
ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2025; 8(19): 14554-14567. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.5c02252
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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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