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30 Apr 2025
Researchers have mapped a superconductor with multiple personalities
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without resistance and are used in electromagnets, antennas and power lines. Researchers have now studied a multifaceted ...
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3 Apr 2025
Opening new exciting possibilities for the study of magnetic materials
A new relation could be a valuable tool for gathering new insights into the magnetic excitations of semiconductors and other materials with magnetic properties. In the future, it c...
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24 Mar 2025
The role of nanowires as a support for the formation of model lipid membranes
Supported lipid bilayers are formed at a faster rate on light-guiding nanowires of high curvature than on conventional planar substrates, with single-vesicle resolution that proves...
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6 Mar 2025
“Research chef” refines the recipe for semiconductors
What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at...
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5 Mar 2025
Making conductive polymer nanowires to probe cells
Polymer nanowires remain conductive after lithography-free manufacturing enabling an excellent path for intracellular bioelectronic manipulation of stem cells and algae. A new stu...
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4 Mar 2025
Electrospray and Surface Plasmon Resonance spectroscopy – PhD students broadened their horizons through research visits
Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson were two of the PhD students who seized the opportunity to have a research visit financed by NanoLund last year. This is a support that NanoLundia...
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28 Feb 2025
Dark excitons may be suitable for charge transport in future solar cell technologies
Dark excitons are material excitations not visible under light illumination. Some acquire intrinsic momentum and become inherently mobile, which can be exploited in charge transpor...
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25 Feb 2025
“The establishment of operations is underway, but it will be on a smaller scale and first and second-cycle studies will not move”
The Boards of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and the Faculty of Science have decided to aim for a more modest establishment in Science Village, i.e. the area between Max IV and E...
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18 Feb 2025
Recognizing excellence in quantum information research
Armin Tavakoli, Assistant Professor at Mathematical Physics, has been awarded the prestigious New Journal of Physics (NJP) Early Career Award 2024 for his outstanding contributions...
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13 Feb 2025
Gearing up for The Nitride Semiconductors Conference (ICNS-15)
The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-15) is just around the corner. Taking place in Malmö, July 6–11, the conference will showcase groundbreaking advan...
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6 Feb 2025
Semiconductor ecosystem to be strengthened
The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates SEK 12 million from the European Regional Development Fund to Lund Nano Lab (Myfab Lund). Over the ...
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30 Jan 2025
Novel energy diagram technique for analyzing multi-photon processes with precision
NanoLund researchers publish exciting breakthroughs in Nature on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects.
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20 Jan 2025
Biological computers could use far less energy than current technology – by working more slowly
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of ...
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16 Jan 2025
This is how fast you can catch covid-19 through the air
The winter season virus has struck – and covid-19 is still part of everyday life. But unlike during the pandemic, we now know more about how the virus is spread through the air we ...
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14 Jan 2025
Ligand-free method to grow vertically aligned free-standing nanowires
Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires in a ligand-free way. The yield is dramatically improved using a controlled nitrog...
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19 Dec 2024
Wrapping up the year
NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen thanks the staff for all your contributions.
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13 Dec 2024
New deputy director – and new chair of the board
Martin Leijnse is the new Deputy Director of NanoLund, and our new chair is Margaret McNamee.
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12 Dec 2024
Strong year for our Vinnova Competence Centres
NanoLund researchers engage in three of the competence centres invested in by Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova. It has been a productive year for all of them – below, you can re...
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5 Dec 2024
Royal Physiographic Society gives the Sten von Friesen Prize to Armin Tavakoli
Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772.
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5 Dec 2024
ERC Consolidator Grant to Per Augustsson
Per Augustsson, a researcher in biomedical engineering, is one of five Lund University researchers receiving the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. He is developing new devices to...