2023

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

The Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems celebrates its 10^th 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.

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.

It’s great to see a video about our research at the PSI Forum, which is the Visitor Centre of the Paul Scherrer Institute. Here, a cartoon avatar of Rhea Stewart, who was a Postdoc in Mesoscopic Systems, explains about our research to science enthusiasts.