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SNC 2024: Register now!
Register now for the Swiss NanoConvention 2024 in Basel (4 – 5 June 2024 in the Congress Center Basel). Don't miss this conference where top researchers from academia and industry come together with leaders from government, politics and…
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Using light to produce medication and plastics more efficiently
Anyone who wants to produce medication, plastics or fertilizer using conventional methods needs heat for chemical reactions – but not so with photochemistry, where light provides the energy. The process to achieve the desired product also…/ News, Portraits
International Women's Day 2024
Today is International Women's Day! We are proud to have strong women in our network. An excellent example is Sonja Schmid, who joined the University of Basel as a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the beginning of 2024. She talks about…/ News
tunBasel 2024: Visible and invisible light
From 11 -17 March 2024, children and young people aged 7 to 13 can experience technology and science in a fun way at tunBasel. Together with the Department of Physics, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute will once again have a stand where…/ News, Portraits
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark the occasion, we have published a new video in the series "Who are the women in the nanosciences". Rahel Kaiser talks about her research at the Department of…
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Strong spin-photon coupling
Researchers from the SNI network have achieved strong coupling between an electron spin and a single photon. Normally, an electron spin couples only weakly to photons. To achieve strong coupling with a single photon, the researchers used a…
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Mass-producible miniature quantum memory
Researchers at the University of Basel have built a quantum memory element based on atoms in a tiny glass cell. In the future, such quantum memories could be mass-produced on a wafer. It is hard to imagine our lives without networks such…
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Increased coherence thanks to cooling
A team of researchers from the SNI network has increased the coherence of an electron spin in a quantum dot to over half a microsecond for the first time. The scientists achieved the more than 150-fold increase in coherence time by using…/ News
Happy Holidays
We wish you happy holidays and a good start to an healthy, peaceful and prosperous 2024! In our short video, we show the Moiré effect, in which a new pattern with a larger period is created by superimposing two regular patterns of a…