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Unexpected speed-dependent friction
In the macro world, friction doesn’t depend on the speed at which two surfaces move past one another, but researchers from Basel and Tel Aviv have now observed precisely this effect in special graphene structures on a platinum surface. Due…
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SNI INSight December 2022
The December issue of SNI INSight is now online. You can find out more about the role that the exciting topic entanglement – which was a topic of this year’s physics Nobel laureates – plays in the SNI network. Some young researchers from…
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Nano Image Award 2022
We received a particularly large number of beautiful images this year and would like to thank everyone who participated in the contest. It was not easy to choose the three most beautiful images and we will try to use as many images as…
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Spin correlation between paired electrons demonstrated
Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from a superconductor. For their study, the researchers…
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Laser light of any wavelength
Researchers from the SNI network have developed a platform for the resonant enhancement for so-called nonlinear optical processes which could aid to produce laser light of any wavelength. They combine a wedge-shaped diamond membrane with…/ News, Research
Laser light of any wavelength
Researchers from the SNI network have developed a platform for the resonant enhancement for so-called nonlinear optical processes which could aid to produce laser light of any wavelength. They combine a wedge-shaped diamond membrane with…
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Dancing molecules
When cycloalkanes are enclosed in a nanometer-sized pore, they adapt their shape - similar to the induced fit concept described in #biochemistry. The molecules do not all behave in the same way and surprisingly start to move when there is a…
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Ultracold circuits
Cooling materials to extremely low temperatures is important for basic physics research as well as for technological applications. By improving a special refrigerator and a low-temperature thermometer, Basel scientists have now managed to…
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Nadine Leisgang and Thomas Karg win SPS Awards for their PhD theses
The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) awards prizes to young physicists for outstanding research in the early stages of their careers. In 2022, two former PhD students of the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute have…