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Newsletter n°37 - December 2018
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Editorial
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As directly testified by this newsletter, 2018 has been a
year rich in events and scientific discoveries for the MaNEP Network.
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2019 promises also to be no less exciting, starting in particular with the Saas Fee MaNEP Winter School in
January with a very beautiful program on Symmetry and Topology, two
concepts that have become central in today’s condensed matter research.
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Let me fist congratulate J. Fowlie and B. Hildebrand for
their achievements, and thank L. Forro, B. Wehinger, J.H. Dil and P.
Moll for their contributions to the newsletter. Besides the individual
aspects of each contribution, the ensemble strikingly shows how central
material science is in our capacity to find new physical phenomena. It
also shows how our search for new materials has acquired many new facets
besides the bulk aspect of materials. In addition to the richness of
the creation of the material itself, the capacity to hunt for new
physics at the mesoscale, or at interfaces, coupled of course to our
increased capacity to probe (and compute!), is the cornucopia of new
discoveries.
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This constant evolution and enrichment of course contributes
to the very strong research activity, as seen in the publication
section, and I thank our colleagues for sharing their highlights with
us. No doubt that we can prepare for a few new surprises and
breakthroughs in the year 2019 as well!
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In the meantime I wish you all an excellent holiday season, a
year 2019 rich in scientific excitement, and look forward to seeing you
again at the various MaNEP events in 2019!
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What's new ?
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A Subside tremplin for Jennifer Fowlie
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Congratulations to Jennifer Fowlie in the group of Jean-Marc
Triscone at UNIGE who obtained a Subside tremplin. This subside allows
female researchers from the UNIGE wishing to pursue an academic career
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Baptiste Hildebrand awarded
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Congratulations to Baptiste Hildebrand from UNIFR who
received the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation scientific prize for his
outstanding work in physics. This prize promotes ...
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SWM 2018
A key event
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More than 150 physicists and material scientists joined the
12th edition of SWM in Les Diablerets showing that this meeting
continues to be a key event for the Swiss quantum matter community.
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The workshop, held over …
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MaNEP at Annual Meeting 2019 of SPS and ÖPG
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The next joint SPS-ÖPG Annual Meeting will take place at the
University of Zürich, in the week of 26-30 August 2019. Save the date!
MaNEP will again contribute, with a special session coordinated by ...
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iWOE celebrates its 25th edition
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240 scientists - including MaNEP members - gathered in Les
Diablerets from the 1st to the 3rd of October 2018 for the 25th edition
of the international Workshop on Oxide Electronics ...
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Work in the Network
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Scientific perspective
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Single crystal growth in Switzerland – a flash back and outlook
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by Prof. László Forró, EPFL
Materials
are the linchpin of technological progress. All energy related
applications like photovoltaics, fuel cells, thermoelectrics,
(harvesting, storing and transmitting) heavily depend on new, more
performant materials. Even the success of energy production by nuclear
fusion crucially relies on finding compounds that can withstand high
doses of irradiation. Information technologies are another huge field
which are seeking for new materials. Their discovery and in-depth
characterization happens in single crystalline form. This strategy has
already been recognized since a long time ago in Switzerland, and a
short summary is given, with some thoughts about future trends. …
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Scientific highlights
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Quantum Magnets under Pressure
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by Björn Wehinger, UNIGE, PSI
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Quantum magnets have evolved over the past decade into
systems of large interest in fundamental and, increasingly, in applied
physics. Their exceptional properties, including non-magnetic ground
states, fractionalised excitations and topological order, have become candidate resources for quantum information and computing. Application in spintronic...
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Operando imaging of all-electric spin texture manipulation in ferroelectric and multiferroic Rashba semiconductors
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The control of the electron spin in functional
materials by an external electric field is a key issue for spintronic
devices. Because the spin is not directly influenced by a realistic
electric field, the coupling has to be indirect and thus especially
ferroelectric and multiferroic materials bear large promise. Using spin-
and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SARPES) with
three-dimensional spin detection and...
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Highlight publications
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Discover more MaNEP Network's research and innovations through other publication highlights.
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Portrait
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Talk with Philip Moll
MaNEP Member, Professor at EPFL and research group leader at
Max Planck Institute
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Please tell us about your main research interests during these last years ?
I
am fascinated by materials in which the physical properties strongly
depend on size and shape of a sample, especially in the context of
strongly interacting electron systems and topological materials. In new
and chemically complex materials, one rarely has the luxury to work with
large scale crystalline samples …
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Upcoming events
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January, 13-18, 2019, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
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13th Int. Symposium Hydrogen & Energy
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January, 20-25, 2019, South Korea
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17th International Summer School on Crystal Growth (ISSCG17)
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July, 21-26, 2019, Grady, Colorado, USA
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19th International Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ICCGE19)
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July, 28 - August 2, 2019, Keystone, Colorado, USA
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August, 26 - 30, 2019, University of Zürich
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(Photo credits: L. Windels-UNIGE, EPFL, PSI, UNIGE, Christian Doninelli-Unicom)
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