Laboratory for Multiscale materials eXperiments (LMX)

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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.

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CoLab Award

ETH CoLab Award for Mohammadhossein Montazerian

Mohammadhossein Montazerian was part of the winning team to secure an ETH CoLab Award. It is an award to help entrepreneurial research to make a first step towards business.  

Photo: © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI / Mahir Dzambegovic
•Future Technologies

Laser draws made-to-order magnetic landscapes

Materials research Nanotechnology

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, have for the first time succeeded in using existing laser technology to continuously vary the magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials. This simple and fast method should make a large number of applications possible, including techniques for data storage and processing. 

 

 Photo: © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI / Mahir Dzambegovic

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Multiple magnetic transitions in the trilayer nickelate Pr4Ni3O10 revealed by muon-spin rotation

SμS SINQ

A muon-spin rotation/relaxation (µSR) study of the trilayer Ruddlesden–Popper nickelate Pr4Ni3O10 was performed at ambient pressure and under hydrostatic pressure up to 2.2 GPa. Three magnetic transitions were identified ...

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Alkali-Metal Interlocking of 2D V4O10 Sheets Defines Discretized Interlayer Shear Relationships

SINQ

Low-dimensional materials manifest structural anisotropy, quantum confinement, and tightly bound excitonic states, which make them attractive building blocks that can be assembled within three-dimensional laterally stitched heterostructures, stacked van der Waals solids, and complex moiré superlattices ...

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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.

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.

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Recent publications

  • Kurenkov A, Maes J, Pac A, Macauley GM, Van Waeyenberge B, Hrabec A, et al.
    Perpendicular-anisotropy artificial spin ice with spontaneous ordering: a platform for reservoir computing with flexible timescales
    Communications Engineering. 2025; 4: 183 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44172-025-00499-y
    DORA PSI
  • Pomjakushin V, Podlesnyak A, Puphal P, Shin S, White JS, Pomjakushina E
    Magnetic contribution of itinerant electrons to neutron diffraction in the topological antiferromagnet CeAlGe
    Physical Review B. 2025; 112(9): 094457 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/xrmt-jfl8
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
  • 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
    DORA PSI
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Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments (LMX)
Paul Scherrer Institute PSI
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland