MaNEP new steering committee
The MaNEP new steering committee 2017-2019 has been elected as follow : More information
Patrycja Paruch receives the iWOE-24 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellency in Research
Congratulations to Patrycja Paruch who receives the iWOE-24 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellency in Research ! Patrycja is awarded for “contributions to the understanding of the physics of domain walls in ferroelectrics – in particular for her work on domain wall creep, studies of domain wall roughness, and her discovery of conductivity at domain walls…
Antoine Georges has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
Antoine Georges, Professor at the Ecole polytechnique, at Collège de France and at the University of Geneva, has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. Antoine Georges will receive this decoration on June 19, 2017 at the Collège de France. The Légion d’Honneur is the highest French national distinction. Antoine George was awarded numerous prizes…
Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography : “Crystallography meets Physics”
Geneva, September 12, 2017 Faculty of Science, University of Geneva 30, quai Ernest-Ansermet – Geneva The annual meeting of the SGK/SSCr Swiss Society for Crystallography takes place this year in Geneva. The 2017 annual meeting will focus on various applications of crystallography in physics, as described by the title “Crystallography meets Physics” given to this…
Superconductivity and the Physiscope at Swissnex Boston
Superconductivity was the guest of Swissnex at the Cambridge science festival near Boston (USA), last April, in collaboration with the Physiscope of UNIGE. Numerous visitors experienced some of the surprising properties of superconductivity, such as levitation and vortex pinning. The Physiscope’s team especially showcased a flywheel able to store mechanical energy and convert it into…
TOF-SIMS : a revolution for chemical surface analysis
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Summer internships 2017
The MaNEP Network offers summer internships for 3rd and 4th year students in physics. It is a unique opportunity to work for a month this summer in one of the top research teams affiliated to the MaNEP Network while receiving a financial support. Interested ? Click here to see all the details and to contact…
Elastic properties measured by thermal diffuse x-ray scattering
by Björn Wehinger, Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva based on an article published in Physical Review Letters Physicists from the University of Geneva and the European Synchrotron discovered how to obtain the full elasticity tensor from a single crystal diffraction experiment. Measurements of thermal diffuse scattering revealed that the complete set of…
Tuning magnetic spirals with chemical disorder beyond room temperature
by Mickaël Morin and Marisa Medarde, Paul Scherrer Institut based on an article published in Nature Communications In the past years, magnetism-driven ferroelectricity has been reported in a number of frustrated magnets with spiral magnetic orders. Such materials are of high current interest due to their potential for spintronics and low-power magnetoelectric devices. However, their low…
EUCAS 2017 in Geneva
By Luca Bottura, CERN The 13th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2017, will be held 17-21 September 2017 in the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG), hosted by CERN in collaboration with the University of Geneva and EPFL-SPC. Full details about the conference scope and program can be found at http://www.eucas2017.org/. EUCAS is a worldwide…
Marta Gibert and Ana Akrap obtain a SNFS professorship
Congratulations to Marta Gibert and Ana Akrap of the Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva who have obtained a SNSF professorship grant. Marta Gibert has received the grant with a project on Functional oxide heterostructures by design. She will be appointed as professor at the University of Zürich. Her research interests are in…
Towards mastering terahertz waves ?
The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which find their application, among other, in Wi-Fi connections). Terahertz waves allow for the detection of materials that are undetectable at other frequencies. However, the use of these waves is severely limited by the absence of…
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