20.07.21 – At its meeting of 14-15 July 2021, the ETH Board has appointed Dr Victor Gorbenko as new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physics (IPHYS). Dr Victor Gorbenko, currently Research Fellow at Stanford University, USA, was named as Tenure-Track … Continue reading →
16.07.21 – Although a very promising solution for capturing solar energy, perovskite solar cells contain lead, which is toxic to the environment and a serious health hazard. EPFL scientists have now found a very elegant and efficient solution by adding … Continue reading →
01.07.21 – A collaboration between EPFL and UCSB has developed a long-anticipated breakthrough, and demonstrated CMOS technology – used for building microprocessors and memory chips – that allows wafer-scale manufacturing of chip-scale optical frequency combs. Optical frequency combs consist of … Continue reading →
24.06.21 – Maxim Karpov, who received his PhD from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded one of the two 2021 Thesis Prizes for applied aspects from the Quantum Electronics and Optics division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society … Continue reading →
09.06.21 – In an international collaboration including EPFL, scientists have achieved giant nonlinearity of UV hybrid light-matter states up to room temperature in a waveguide made of AlInGaN, a wide bandgap semiconductor. The achievement paves the way for new devices … Continue reading →
31.05.21 – At its meeting of 19-20 May 2021, the ETH Board has named Dr. Andreas Läuchli as Full Professor at the Institute of Physics (IPHYS). Professor Andreas Läuchli, currently Full Professor and Head of Institute at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, was … Continue reading →
28.05.21 – Scientists at EPFL discover that laser-driven rearrangement of just a few gold atoms inside nanoscale antennas can be observed by the naked eye. Image: Plasmonic nano-antennas fabricated at EPFL: gold nanoparticles are deposited on a gold film covered with … 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 →
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 – 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 →