Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS)

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The PSI Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging conducts cutting-edge research at the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ.

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Understanding and Addressing the Performance Asymmetry Issue in Semitransparent Laminated Organic Photovoltaic Devices

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) offer a promising solution for indoor energy harvesting. However, fundamental investigations to understand and optimize industrial processes such as roll-to-roll lamination for upscaling remain limited. This study investigates a critical failure mode in the upscaling of OPVs. 

One major challenge ...

Morano et al

Absence of Altermagnetic Magnon Band Splitting in MnF2

Altermagnets are collinear compensated magnets in which the magnetic sublattices are related by rotation rather than translation or inversion. One of the quintessential properties of altermagnets is the presence of split chiral magnon modes. Recently, such modes have been predicted in MnF2

Here, we report inelastic neutron scattering results ...

  • Gao B, Desrochers F, Tam DW, Kirschbaum DM, Steffens P, Hiess A, et al.
    Neutron scattering and thermodynamic evidence for emergent photons and fractionalization in a pyrochlore spin ice
    Nature Physics. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02922-9
    DORA PSI
  • Levinsky JJB, Labh A, Pomjakushin V, Keiderling U, Komarek AC, Zhao L, et al.
    Magnetic properties of a non-centrosymmetric polymorph of FeCl3
    Materials Advances. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ma00635f
    DORA PSI
  • Prodan L, Evans DM, Sukhanov AS, Nikitin SE, Tsirlin AA, Puntigam L, et al.
    Easy-cone state mediating the spin reorientation in the topological kagome magnet Fe3Sn2
    Physical Review B. 2025; 111(18): 184442 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.184442
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