Published 2 October 2019 At the 31st MAX IV User Meeting on September 23-25, 2019 Susanna Hammarberg won the Student Poster Award 2019 for her poster: “Strain mapping of nanowire device using scanning XRD”.Read more about the poster award (in English) or read the news at MAXIV's home page (in English).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/poster-award-susanna-hammarberg - 2025-02-25

Published 1 October 2019 The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced on October 1st that Kenneth Wärnmark wins one of 20 prestigious grants for ground-breaking research projects. The grant of 35 MSEK over five years is to support the project “Photofunctional iron complexes”, aiming to harvest solar energy with iron-based molecules.Kenneth will give a talk on the project on October 17th at 1

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-project-funding-kennet-warnmark - 2025-02-25

Published 27 August 2019 Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/have significantly contributed to the field of aerosol s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2025-02-25

Published 15 August 2019 We are very happy to announce that Luke Hankin is starting today as new Head of laboratory for Lund Nano Lab, succeeding Maria Huffman. Luke comes from a position as Engineering Director at Sol Voltaics where he has lead a team of 20 people. He was responsible for lab construction, equipment development, clean room, chemistry labs, IT and safety. Prior to that he has held

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luke-hankin-new-head-lund-nano-lab - 2025-02-25

Published 29 August 2019 A feature in Sydsvenskan describes Tönu Pullerits' research on perovskites as a material for more efficient solar cells and describes the limitations with the current silicon solar cells. The reason for the feature is that a journal article by Tönu and colleagues has been chosen as one of the best on Perovskites by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge.Read more in S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cell-research-featured-sydsvenskan - 2025-02-25

Published 9 July 2019 Cellevate AB, a company spun out from a project at the Engineering Nanoscience Program at Lund University, was named Nordic Nanotech Company of the Year 2019 last week at the NanoForum 2019 conference arranged by SwedNanoTech as part of the IVC-21. Another company spun-out from the NanoLund research environment, Hexagem AB, was also competed for the title as one of the three

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cellevate-named-nanotech-company-year-2019 - 2025-02-25

Published 9 July 2019 Rapidus reports that the recently established Spermosens AB secured 2,5 MSEK in funding from private investors and and 0,3 MSEK from Vinnova.Spermosens AB led by NanoLund graduate Kushagr Punyani, develops a diagnostic device for male infertility, predicting if the patient’s sperms would bind to and fertilize a healthy female egg, and hence diagnosing the underlying cause of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spermosens-ab-secures-funding - 2025-02-25

Published 5 June 2019 Andreas Wacker was interviewed on May 20th by Swedish Radio P4 about the 2019 redefinition of the kilogram according to the SI base units.Listen to the interview here (Kilogrammet pensioneras) or read Andreas' short summary of the changes.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/radio-interview-andreas-wacker-si-changes - 2025-02-25

Published 22 May 2019 NanoLund postdoc Martin Hjort was selected to participate to the LMK foundation idea forum (LMK-stiftelsens Idéforum) in Björkliden, which will take place in September 2019.  The selection was made by nomination and in competition with many promising young researchers.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-hjort-lmk-foundation-idea-forum - 2025-02-25

Published 14 May 2019 April 4th NanoLund researchers Christelle Prinz from Solid State Physics and Erik Lind from Electrical and Information Technology were appointed Professors by the Vice-Chancellor. Christelle Prinz is Professor in Experimental Biophysics and Erik Lind is Professor in Nanoelectronics.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-new-nanolund-professors - 2025-02-25

Published 9 May 2019 Sara Linse has been awarded 10 MDKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for her project entitled "Unravelling the IAPP aggregation mechanism for the design of inhibitors that specifically suppress toxicity and cell death in type 2 diabetes" as part of the Foundation’ Research Leader Programme, which supports ambitious, original research projects and the continuing development of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-awarded-10mdkk-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-02-25

Published 27 March 2019 The Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation have just announced their choice of Wallenberg scholars, one of them being Stephanie Reimann, professor in Mathematical Physics. A total of 22 excellent researchers, all among the foremost in their field in Sweden, receive 18 million SEK each from the Wallenberg Foundation in the form of a five-year grant for free research.Read more

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-grant-stephanie-reimann - 2025-02-25

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 - 2025-02-25

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 - 2025-02-25

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 - 2025-02-25

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 - 2025-02-25

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 - 2025-02-25

Published 25 July 2018 Physics World reports that Researchers at NanoLund have grown single continuous GaAs nanowires consisting of segments of pure wurtzite and zincblende phases. Using photoluminescence spectroscopy, they found that the spatial confinement along the radius of a nanowire resulted in bending of the band structure of the material.Read the article "Radial band bending at wurtzite–zi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-thickness-alters-gaas-band-structure - 2025-02-25

Published 19 February 2018 Photo: Emilie Hilner A Marcus Wallenberg symposium on Tailored surfaces in operando conditions was held in Ystad June 11-14 with 80 participants. A number of international speakers from universities and industry talked on recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The symposium also included visi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-tailored-surfaces - 2025-02-25

Published 30 May 2018 Swedish Radio has made a feature on nanosafety - Hur farlig är nanotekniken? (in Swedish, 19 min) - involving NanoLund scientists Christina Isaxon, Knut Deppert, Maria Hedmer and Tommy Cedervall.A short version was also brought in the Science news program Vetandets värld: Säkerhetsforskningen kring nanomaterial går långsamt (in Swedish, 2:07 min).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanosafety-featured-swedish-radio - 2025-02-25