The PSI Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging conducts cutting-edge research at the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
Steering magnetic textures with electric fields
Neutrons reveal a new way to control magnetism at the nanoscale
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 ...
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 ...
Recent publications
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Hadi SE, Davoodi S, Oliaei E, Morsali M, Åhl A, Nocerino E, et al.
High-performance and energy-efficient nanolignocellulose foams for sustainable technologies
ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. 2025; 13(25): 9467-9480. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.5c00761
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Lass J, Moody SH, Fjellvåg ØS
DMCpy: a powder and single crystal neutron diffraction software for the DMC diffractometer
SoftwareX. 2025; 31: 102237 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2025.102237
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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
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