20.09.17 – EPFL researchers use interference in the motion of a micrometre-size drum to route microwave signals in a single direction. Image: The chip-scale device developed by EPFL researchers, embedded in a copper box for ultralow temperature measurements. These nonreciprocal … Continue reading →
20.09.17 – Three scientists from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council. The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any field of research with … Continue reading →
07.09.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a scanning transmission electron microscopy method that can quickly and efficiently generate 3D representations of curvilinear nanostructures. Image caption: Superposed, tilt-less electron microscopy stereo image (color-filtered) of carbon nanospheres decorated with nanoparticles. The same structures … Continue reading →
30.08.17 – Edoardo Baldini and Konrad Domanski have been awarded the Chorafas Prize 2017. The Chorafas Prize is awarded each year by the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation “for outstanding work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural … Continue reading →
17.08.17 – Dr Michael Saliba has been included in the TR35, an annual list of the world’s top 35 Innovators under 35 compiled by the MIT Technology Review. The prestigious TR35 is a list published yearly by the MIT Technology Review acknowledging … Continue reading →
14.08.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a new method to efficiently measure electron transfer in dye-sensitized transition-metal oxide photovoltaics. Sensitized solar cells consisting of a molecular or solid-state sensitizer that serves to collect light and inject an electron into a … Continue reading →
04.08.17 – Summer Series: Edward Honein has joined EPFL’s Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology from the American University of Beirut. His summer project, supervised by Professor Ardemis Boghossian, aims to develop a nanotube-based biosensor. Biosensors are devices that can detect biological molecules … Continue reading →
20.07.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a uranium-based complex that can allow nitrogen fixation reactions to take place in ambient conditions. The work overcomes one of the biggest difficulties to building more efficient industrial-scale nitrogen products like ammonia. Nitrogen is … Continue reading →
19.07.17 – Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib, head of LASTRO (Laboratory of Astrophysics), was appointed Director of eSpace (EPFL Space Engineering Center) on July 1st, 2017. Jean-Paul Kneib holds a Master in Astrophysics and Space Technology and a PhD in Astrophysics. He has … Continue reading →
17.07.17 – Scientists from EPFL and PSI have shown experimentally, for the first time, a quantum phase transition in strontium copper borate, the only material to date that realizes a famous quantum many-body model. Many physical phenomena can be modeled with … Continue reading →