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Nadine Leisgang und Thomas Karg
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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…

Kopplung von Elektron-Loch-Paaren
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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…

Karte des Magnetfelds
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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…

Mitchell Brüderlin bei der SNI Winter School “Nanoscience in the Snow” 2022, bei der er den Best Poster Award gewann.
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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…

Martino Poggio
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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…

Patrick Maletinsky
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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…

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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…

Mathias Claus
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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…

Photonenzwillinge
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Twin photons from unequal sources

Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies that are based on quantum physics. A team of researchers from Basel and Bochum has now produced identical photons with different quantum dots – an important step…

Prof. Dr. Jelena Klinovaja. (Foto: Universität Basel, Christian Flierl)
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ERC Consolidator Grants for SNI members

Theoretical foundations for future quantum technologies The project of Professor Jelena Klinovaja addresses challenges in the field of topological quantum matter. So-called topological qubits could be suitable to reliably encode…

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