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The NanoLund Annual Meeting 2025 took place on October 8th at the Loop. Not only underlined by the Nobel Prize in Physics announced the day before, this year’s theme, “Quantum science and technology – from fundamental science to applications”, is also connected to the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), which marks a century since the foundational discoveries that gave

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-focus-years-annual-meeting - 2025-12-07

Work on Lund University’s establishment in Science Village has continued this year, but with a new focus. At the end of 2024, the boards of LTH and the Faculty of Science decided not to proceed with scenario 5 – a co-location of the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry in the area – due to cost considerations and the challenges of running education across two sites. The project gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/light-and-materials-focus-lund-universitys-science-village-establishment - 2025-12-07

On-chip optical communication between tiny light-based components can make neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing much smaller and more energy-efficient. In this work, researchers demonstrate that individual nanowire devices on a silicon chip can transmit and receive light signals directly to each other. These miniature circuits communicate reliably, using significantly less power than convention

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tiny-light-circuits-mimic-brain-fraction-energy-cost - 2025-12-07

When light ejects electrons from atoms, understanding their full quantum nature goes beyond measuring momentum. Using quantum-state tomography, researchers reconstructed the complete quantum states of electrons emitted from helium and argon atoms by ultrashort extreme-ultraviolet light pulses. They found that helium produces a pure state, while argon’s spin–orbit interaction entangles the electron

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/measuring-quantum-state-photoelectrons - 2025-12-07

“X-ray and neutron-based characterization of advanced semiconductors (Semiconductors)” is the name of one of the new Themes at LINXS, the advanced studies institute whose mission is to promote science and education focusing on the use of neutrons and X-rays. LINXS recently announced that, subject to formal acceptance by the applicants, four new Themes will start at LINXS as of 1st January 2026. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/rainer-timm-leads-one-new-linxs-themes - 2025-12-07

Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumour could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. “By drop casting the nanoparticles into the tumour cavity after an operation, we could electrify the edges while the immune system is also activated”, says Roger Olsson, professor of Chemical Biology

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/electrotherapy-offers-hope-glioblastoma-treatment - 2025-12-07

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–zinc-blende–GaAs interfac

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-thickness-alters-gaas-band-structure - 2025-12-07

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 visits to ESS,MAX IV and nCHREM (the Lund University

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-tailored-surfaces - 2025-12-07

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 - 2025-12-07

We congratulate our alumni Pyry Kivisaari on winning the highly prestigious Academy Postdoc funding from the Academy of Finland.  Pyry was at NanoLund during 2014-2017 as a postdoc, working on modelling of NW LEDs and solar cells, and funded by the Nokia Foundation.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/pyry-kivisaari-wins-academy-postdoc-funding - 2025-12-07

NanoLund scientist Martin Hjort is one of the 2017 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients in the category Engineering and Applied Sciences. The annual award acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. It is given annually to six papers published in PNAS. Read more here.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-hjort-one-2017-cozzarelli-prize-recipients - 2025-12-07

We congratulate Anne L'Huillier for beeing elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Members are elected to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Current NAS membership totals appr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-joins-national-academy-sciences-usa - 2025-12-07

Understanding interface formation between InAs semiconductors and hafnium dioxide insulating layers Most semiconductor devices are still based on silicon, even though other semiconductor materials such as InAs have superior electrical properties. The problem with these materials is that their interface towards thin insulating layers, which are needed for e.g. transistor processing, contains many d

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/when-semiconductors-meets-insulating-layers - 2025-12-07

The new Environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM) was inagurated April 12 with a full day symposium. The microscope will be used firstly by researchers enabling nanowire growth research. Read the Lund University press release (in Swedish) or the article by Ny teknik (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/live-monitoring-nanowiregrowth - 2025-12-07

SwedNanoTech reports that six new board members entered the Board at the Annual Meeting on April 4, 2018. New to the board is NanoLund member and founder Lars Samuelson. Lars Montelius, Director General för International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal and a NanoLund Affiliated member was reelected to the board together with Sarah Fredriksson from PULS Invest. Sarah is member

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-board-members-swednanotech - 2025-12-07

We are very happy to announce that the foundation LMK Stiftelsen has decided to support NanoLund with a donation of 5 MSEK for equipment for fabrication and characterisation of nanostructures. The donation is specifically motivated by research led by Lars Samuelson on light emitting diodes (LEDs) for energy-efficient, human-centered lighting. The equipment will be operated as part of our user faci

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/donation-equipment-led-research - 2025-12-07

NanoLund was very happy to host a visit by the Board of the Crafoord Foundation on March 14. The Foundation has supported as many as 24 grants to researchers within NanoLund supporting research projects and equipment over the last four years, most notably a 5 MSEK donation for a super-high resolution STED microscope in 2015. The STED technique was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014. Proj

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/visit-crafoord-foundation - 2025-12-07

Professor Kimberly Dick Thelander from the Department of Physics has been awarded the 2018 Edlund Prize and the Lindbomska award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for her cutting ­edge research on new semiconductor crystal phases in nanowires.Read more on the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' homepage (in Swedish: Edlundska priset 2018 and Lindbomska belöningen 2018) or in Sydsvenskan (

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prizes-kimberly-dick-thelander - 2025-12-07

May 28-29 NanoLund researchers are organizing a Workshop on Superresolution Techniques at AF-borgen, Sandgatan 2 in Lund. Confirmed invited speakers are:Dr. Francisco Balzarotti, Department of NanoBio Photonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, GermanyProf. Ralf Jungmann, Research Group "Molecular Imaging and Bionanotechnology", Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Marti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-superresolution-techniques-2018 - 2025-12-07

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https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/medfak-forskarens-tips-i-deadline-tider-sa-far-du-lattare-ihop-livspusslet - 2025-12-07