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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…
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Coupling of electron-hole pairs
For the first time, physicists from the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling different types of electron-hole pairs (excitons) in the van der Waals material molybdenum disulfide. This successful coupling allows them to utilize and…
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Quantum interference device images current flow in qubit circuits
Map of the circuits magnetic field, showing the flow of current density within the device. (Image: Departement of Physics, University of Basel) Physicists from the SNI network at the University of Basel and the ETH Zurich have used a…
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Portrait of SNI doctoral student Mitchell Brüderlin
The University of Basel recently portrayed SNI PhD student Mitchell Brüderlin as part of its summer series “In Focus”. Mitchell Brüderlin, who comes from the Canton of Aargau, studied nanoscience at the University of Basel and was then so…
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A passion for nano research – Martino Poggio to become new SNI Director
The SNI is a diverse institute, and Argovia Professor Martino Poggio is also characterized by his diverse background — whether it be as a passionate researcher and visionary research manager or in terms of his cultural origins. He came to…
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An interest in basic and applied research – Patrick Maletinsky becomes new SNI Vice Director
Patrick Maletinsky joined the University of Basel 10 years ago as the Georg H. Endress Foundation Professor of Experimental Physics. When he takes over as vice director of the SNI in August, he will be tasked with supporting and deputizing…/ News, Preise, SNI INSight
Superconducting metamaterial for analog quantum simulation – Vera Weibel studies an artificial material with special properties
Vera Weibel wrote her prizewinning master’s thesis at EPFL under Professor Pasquale Scarlino, having studied a superconducting metamaterial — an artificial material with properties that do not occur in nature. A material of this kind could…
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Precise data on tiny magnets – Mathias Claus has developed a sensor that can be used to analyze the magnetism of tiny magnet
For his prizewinning master’s project in Professor Martino Poggio’s group at the Department of Physics of the University of Basel, Mathias Claus developed a torsion rocker that can be used to study the magnetization of tiny magnets in…