01.10.20 – EPFL Professors Suliana Manley (School of Basic Sciences) and Sylvie Roke (School of Engineering) have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. The American Physical Society (APS) is the world’s largest organization of physicists. It was founded … Continue reading →
22.06.20 – EPFL biophysicists have developed a high-throughput super-resolution microscope to probe nanoscale structures and dynamics of mammalian cells, showing in unprecedented detail the twists and turns of an organelle important for cell division. If you want to understand the … Continue reading →
18.06.20 – Graphene doped with sodium can be a key player in making cheap batteries and spintronic devices, EPFL scientists discover. “Lithium is becoming a critical material as it is used extensively in cell-phones and car batteries, while, in principle, … Continue reading →
17.06.20 – An international collaboration team of University California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and EPFL has developed an integrated technology that may revolutionize photonic systems. Information technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. However, the … Continue reading →
15.06.20 – Physicists at EPFL have successfully melted a very thin crystal of magnetic quasi-particles controllably, as turning ice into water. Novel phases of matter have been discovered and a new model system for fundamental physics studies has been established. … Continue reading →
13.05.20 – LiDAR is a technique used for measuring distances with laser light. In a study published in Nature, researchers at EPFL show a new way to speed up a type of LiDAR engine by using photonic circuits. Light detection … Continue reading →
29.04.20 – In the paper “Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy”, just published in the peer-reviewed journal Physical Review Letters, and selected as Editor’s suggestions, scientists at EPFL and IBM Research Europe report experiments in which … Continue reading →
24.04.20 – Solitons in optical microresonators are frequently used to generate frequency combs, which have found applications in sensing, telecommunication, and metrology. Now, scientists at EPFL have discovered a novel state of colliding solitons, which reveals interesting properties that can … Continue reading →
20.04.20 – Using integrated photonic chips fabricated at EPFL, scientists have demonstrated laser-based microwave generators. These microwave signals, as well as their optical carriers, could be used in radars, satellite communications and future 5G wireless networks. In our information society, … Continue reading →
20.04.20 – The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the biggest radio telescope ever built. Thanks to this ambitious tool, some of the universe’s greatest mysteries will be resolved. EPFL became a member of the SKA Organisation (SKAO) beginning … Continue reading →