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
Coexistence of Insulatorlike Paramagnon and Metallic Spin-Orbit Exciton Modes in SrIrO3
We probe the spectrum of elementary excitations in SrIrO3 by using heterostructured [(SrIrO3)m / (SrTiO3)l] samples to approach the bulk limit. Our resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements at the Ir L3 edge reveal ...
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
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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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
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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
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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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