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 →
16.04.21 – Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these “phase transitions” aren’t smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international team of physicists led by … Continue reading →
23.03.21 – The LHCb collaboration, which includes EPFL scientists, has just released an update of a measurement which is one of the very few at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consistently hinting at a deviation from the theoretical expectations. This … Continue reading →
23.03.21 – EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy. As part of this effort, EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center will lead a campus-wide, cross-disciplinary … Continue reading →
18.03.21 – Scientists at EPFL and the University of Geneva have combined two powerful, cutting-edge techniques to uncover the physics behind an exotic phase transition that turns a metal into an insulator. The materials they looked at are rare-earth nickelates, … Continue reading →
15.03.21 – Maxim Karpov, a researcher at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences, has been awarded the MDPI Best PhD Thesis Award in Physics for his work on microresonator-based optical frequency combs. of over 200 broad-scope, open-access journals. It is the … Continue reading →
23.02.21 – Joaquim Loizu, a researcher at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center, is the recipient of IUPAP’s (International Union of pure and applied physics) 2020 Young Scientist Prize in plasma physics. This prize is awarded annually to a young international scientist … Continue reading →
22.02.21 – By using 3D aerosol jet-printing to put perovskites on graphene, scientists at EPFL have made X-ray detectors with record sensitivity that can greatly improve the efficiency and reduce the cost and health hazard of medical imaging devices. Since … Continue reading →
19.02.21 – Using the IBM Q computer, physicists at EPFL have verified for the first time the tight relationship between quantum entanglement and wave-particle duality, showing that the former controls the latter in a quantum system. “It is possible to … Continue reading →
17.02.21 – The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would be damaged. Researchers from the Dutch institute DIFFER … Continue reading →