By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 26 November 2024 Bioelectrodes created in the brain of a chicken embryo using light (left), which provides control of the structure and the previous method without light (right). Figure: Fredrik Ek et al. Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/using-light-create-bioelectronics-inside-body - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 5 December 2024 Illustration from the article Acoustic Enrichment of Heterogeneous Circulating Tumor Cells and Clusters from Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients, in Anal. Chem. 2024, 96, 18, 6914–6921. Per Augustsson, a researcher in biomedical engineering, is one of five Lund University researchers receiving the prestigious ERC

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/erc-consolidator-grant-augustsson - 2025-04-05

Published 19 December 2024 NanoLund Director Anders Mikkelsen thanks the staff for all your contributions. The end of 2024 is getting closer, and in the midst of the final hectic attempt to finish all projects and ideas, we can look back at the year. We sadly had to say goodbye to our deputy director Maria Messing, who took a new leadership position at Chalmers. After a thorough process, the recru

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wrapping-year - 2025-04-05

Published 12 December 2024 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 read their reports from 2024. C3NiT, managed by Vanya Darakchieva has for the second time arranged its yearly meeting in Lund with great success together with industrial and academic partners. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/strong-year-our-vinnova-competence-centres - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 November 2024 The Horizon Europe programme InsectNeuroNano had an exciting encounter with business students participating in a case competition to explore how they might be able to commercialize the ideas and conclusions from the project. Photo: Ola Mattisson The long-term vision of the InsectNeuroNano project is a novel on-c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/business-students-presented-ideas-commercializing-insectneuronano-bee-chip - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 13 December 2024 Martin Leijnse is the new Deputy Director of NanoLund, and our new chair is Margaret McNamee. We welcome Martin Leijnse, a Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, as our new Deputy Director of NanoLund. He succeeds Maria Messing, who is currently at Chalmers. After Heiner Linke, the NanoLund Board has a new chair

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-deputy-director-and-new-chair-board - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 14 January 2025 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 nitrogen flow, and in situ microscopy is used to visualize the growth dynamics. Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/ligand-free-method-grow-vertically-aligned-free-standing-nanowires - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 November 2024 Using superconducting semiconductor hybrids, Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Thelander, and Ville Maisi has demonstrated a continuous microwave photon detection using superconducting semiconductor hybrids. Microwave Photons contain about five orders of magnit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/continuous-microwave-photon-counting-semiconductor-superconductor-hybrids - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug and Evelina Lindén) - published 5 December 2024 Armin Tavakoli receives the Sten von Friesen Prize. Photo: Johan Lindskoug Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772. Armin Tavakoli's research focuses on the complex phenomena that characterize the quantum world, wher

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/royal-physiographic-society-gives-sten-von-friesen-prize-armin-tavakoli - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 16 January 2025 A few minutes in the same room as an infected person is enough to catch the virus yourself. Here, aerosol researcher Malin Alsved collects virus aerosols from an infected person in a mobile laboratory during the pandemic. Photo: Jakob Löndahl The winter season virus has struck – and covid-19 is still part of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-fast-you-can-catch-covid-19-through-air - 2025-04-05

Published 30 January 2025 NanoLund researchers publish exciting breakthroughs in Nature on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. Samuel Andersson, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Subhomoy Haldar, and Ville Maisi have unveiled groundbreaking work on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. By leveraging a Josephson junction-based design, thi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/novel-energy-diagram-technique-analyzing-multi-photon-processes-precision - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 6 February 2025 New investments will help to ensure that Sweden has a well-functioning chain of companies, research institutes and resources that can manufacture the materials and components needed in semiconductor technology. Photo: Johan Persson The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/semiconductor-ecosystem-be-strengthened - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 13 February 2025 Vanya Darakchieva is one of the chairs in the coming-up conference ICNS-15. Photo: Jonas Tegenfeldt 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 advancements in materials, physics, op

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/submit-your-abstract-nitride-semiconductors-conference-icns-15 - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Heiner Linke) - published 20 January 2025 The problem with hares… reysphoto/Shutterstock 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 operations per second. However, this high speed and reliability come at the cost of signi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/biological-computers-could-use-far-less-energy-current-technology-working-more-slowly - 2025-04-05

Published 18 February 2025 “I am honored and grateful for NJP’s recognition,” says Armin Tavakoli, standing before Rydberg formula at the Department of Physics. Photo: Johan Lindskoug. 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 to quantum information science. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/recognizing-excellence-quantum-information-research - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 4 March 2025 Red quantum dots meet Hongkong’s Light Show, where NanoLund PhD student Linnéa Jönsson spent almost seven weeks on a research visit in 2024. 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 NanoLu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/electrospray-and-surface-plasmon-resonance-spectroscopy-phd-students-broadened-their-horizons - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 5 March 2025 Electron microscopy image of algae sitting on the nanowires. Picture: Martin Hjort Polymer nanowires remain conductive after lithography-free manufacturing enabling an excellent path for intracellular bioelectronic manipulation of stem cells and algae. A new study spearheaded by NanoLundians Damien Hughes and Martin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-conductive-polymer-nanowires-probe-cells - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 25 February 2025 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 ESS. They justify the decision by the fact that the Departments of Physics and Chemistry would incur high rental costs if both research an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/establishment-operations-underway-it-will-be-smaller-scale-and-first-and-second-cycle-studies-will - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 6 March 2025 Vanya Darakchieva and Andri Dhora work on the PLD apparatus. Photo: Jenny Leyman 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 the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors-0 - 2025-04-05

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 February 2025 From the abstract: Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for optoelectronic applications due to their strongly bound excitons. Dark excitons are material excitations not visible under light illumination. Some acquire intrinsic momentum and become inherently mobil

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/dark-excitons-may-be-suitable-charge-transport-future-solar-cell-technologies - 2025-04-05