News & Events
Lauren Riddiford was awarded third prize in the Heidelberg Instruments Application Image Competition 2023-2024
Acknowledging the exceptional quality of her work, Lauren Riddiford was awarded third prize by Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH in the Application Image Competition on Advanced Nano & Micro Fabrication 2023-2024.
Claire Donnelly will receive the 2024 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation
Claire Donnelly, former PhD Student in Mesoscopic Systems, will receive the 2024 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation, which is Germany's most prestigious award for researchers in the early stages of their careers, and is intended to support further research endeavors for a period of three years.
Naëmi Leo funded from UK Research & Innovation – Future Leaders Fellows
Naëmi Leo, former Postdoc in Mesoscopic Systems, has been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for her project, LIONESS*, implementing ‘‘a hybrid approach for novel devices to enable fast, precise, and reconfigurable optical control of nano to microscale temperature distributions by light for key applications in magnetic data processing.’’
Mesoscopic Systems Celebrates 10 Years at ETH Zurich
The Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems and the Laboratory for Magnetism and Interface Physics celebrated their 10-year anniversary together at ETH Hönggerberg. The event included posters from both groups, and was accompanied by refreshments. Several colleagues and alumni from DMATL enjoyed the friendly get together during the afternoon.
Article published on voltage-controlled lateral magnetic coupling
In our recent publication, we introduced reprogrammable chiral coupling, allowing us to switch between parallel and antiparallel orientations of the magnetization in neighboring regions. This is achieved with solid-state ionic gating, where the magnetic anisotropy in narrow gate areas between the regions is altered with an applied voltage.
Swiss & Austrian Physical Societies Meeting
Mesoscopic Systems is pleased to have organized several "Spintronics and Magnetism at the Nanoscale" sessions at the 2023 Joint Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies.
Workshop on Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice 2023
The Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems recently organised the workshop Frontiers in Artificial Spin Ice 2023, in Lenzburg, Switzerland. This workshop, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, brought together the key players in Artificial Spin Ice and related fields in order to explore recent advances, open questions, and new avenues.
Laura Heyderman elected Royal Society Fellow
Laura Heyderman, who leads the Mesoscopic Systems Group at PSI and ETH Zurich, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). Her nomination recognises almost 30 years of research into magnetic materials and magnetism on the nanoscale, most notably, in the field of artificial spin ice.
Mesoscopic Systems Celebrates 10 Years
The Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023 and, for this occasion, we invited our alumni and colleagues at the Paul Scherrer institute to spend the afternoon with us in April.
SpinENGINE meeting in Zurich
Researchers from Mesoscopic Systems met with their collaborators from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ghent university, IBM Research and University of Sheffield in March 2023 to discuss the progress and perspectives of the SpinENGINE project funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 FET-Open programme. The project lays the foundations for massively parallel “physical” computation in nanomagnet ensembles.