2017
Participation at Tecday

Members of the Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems participated at the Tecday at the Alte Kantonschule Aarau
Article published

An ensemble of magnetically coupled nanomagnets, known as artificial spin ice, has been used to create a functional material that has the potential for use in microscopic devices.
Materials Day Presentation

Laura Heyderman gives a presentation at the Materials Day on the Magic of Mesoscopic Magnets
Session organized at SPS meeting

Naëmi Leo and Susmita Saha, with the help of Laura Heyderman, organized a topical session on "Magnetism and Spintronics at the nanoscale" at the joint meeting of the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) and Austrian Physiscal Society (OPG) in Geneva, August 21-25, 2017
Article published

Synchrotron X-ray magnetic tomography reveals a complex magnetic structure in a micrometre-sized magnet, with singularities called Bloch-points observed for the first time
Presentation at SPICE workshop

Laura Heyderman gives a presentation on our recent work on Artificial Ferroic Systems at the SPICE Topology Matters Workshop in July 2017
ETH Zurich grant awarded

Mesoscopic Systems has been awarded an ETH Zurich Research Grant for Paolo Testa to work on magneto-mechanical systems starting in October 2017
PSI Fellows

Diane Lançon and Jizhai Cui have been awarded PSI-FELLOW postdoctoral fellowships for 2017-2019. This is a prestigious award co-funded by the European Commission initiative Horizon 2020: Marie-Curie Action, and provides two-years support for outstanding researchers pursuing scientific careers at the Paul Scherrer Institute
Head of Laboratory of Multiscale Materials

Laura Heyderman becomes Head of Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments (LMX) at the Paul Scherrer Institute on 1st April, 2017
Naëmi Leo at DPG

Naëmi Leo organised a focus session on “Magnetic Correlations in Mesoscopic Spin Structures” with the help of Laura Heyderman at the annual meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) meeting in Dresden, March 20-24, 2017