25.05.21 – Professor Maria Colombo, head of the Chair of AMCV, is distinguished with the 2022 Peter Lax Award. She will receive her award at the International Conferences on Hyperbolic Problem (HYP) that will take place in June 2022. The … Continue reading →
21.05.21 – At its meeting of 19-20 May 2021, the ETH Board has named Dr. Andreas Läuchli as Full Professor and Dr. Florian Richter as as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Professor Andreas Läuchli, currently Full Professor … Continue reading →
19.05.21 – An international study, led by EPFL, has discovered a material that gives rise to rare, “triple-point” Fermions. The researchers have been able, for the first time, to identify the spins associated with them. Fermions can either exist as … Continue reading →
18.05.21 – Gold is big business. The metal is used across industry – in our cars, medicines, electronics and to fill our teeth. But all that gold comes at a cost. The mining industry is one the world’s largest sources … Continue reading →
12.05.21 – EPFL researchers have developed a light-based approach to read out superconducting circuits, overcoming the scaling-up limitations of quantum computing systems. In the last few years, several technology companies including Google, Microsoft, and IBM, have massively invested in quantum … Continue reading →
06.05.21 – In the global effort to combat climate change, solar power can help cut emissions and provide an alternative to fossil fuels. ERC grantee Michael Grätzel is pioneering a new generation of photovoltaic solar technologies that are highly reliable … Continue reading →
06.05.21 – With the help of their custom-built super-resolution microscope, EPFL biophysicists have discovered where and why mitochondria divide, putting to rest controversy about the underlying molecular machinery of mitochondrial fission. Mitochondria either split in half or cut off their … Continue reading →
26.04.21 – Mechanical engineers and mathematicians at EPFL have joined forces to gain a better understanding of the geometry and mechanics of two filaments in contact – as in the cases of knots and woven fabrics. Pedro Reis, head of … Continue reading →
22.04.21 – Excitation gratings created by interference of two light waves on a material allow investigating transport phenomena at a scale comparable to their wavelength. Going to the X-rays allows accessing these phenomena at the nanoscale. Image: A pulsed beam of … Continue reading →
22.04.21 – EPFL scientists have developed ultralow-loss silicon nitride integrated circuits that are central for many photonic devices, such as chip-scale frequency combs, narrow-linewidth lasers, coherent LiDAR, and neuromorphic computing. Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers … Continue reading →