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Fundamentally different

Artificial intelligence is helping to evaluate an unimaginably vast amounts of data efficiently and exploit the facilities’ full potential for research.

Sebastian Gliga entwickelt eine Methode, um mithilfe von Röntgenstrahlen, wie sie von der SLS erzeugt werden, historische Musikaufnahmen auf zerfallenden Magnetbändern zerstörungsfrei und hochauflösend zu digitalisieren. — Sebastian Gliga entwickelt eine Methode, um mithilfe von Röntgenstrahlen, wie sie von der SLS erzeugt werden, historische Musikaufnahmen auf zerfallenden Magnetbändern zerstörungsfrei und hochauflösend zu digitalisieren.
(Foto: Paul Scherrer Institut/Mahir Dzambegovic)

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Rescuing music with X-rays

SLS plays the King of the Blues – B.B. King! In collaboration with the Montreux Jazz Digital Project, historic audio tapes are being digitised at PSI.

Yasin Ekinci, Head of the Laboratory for X-ray Nanoscience and Technologies at PSI, in a clean room laboratory at Swiss Light Source SLS, where extreme ultraviolet light can be used for EUV research. — Yasin Ekinci, Head of the Laboratory for X-ray Nanoscience and Technologies at PSI, in a clean room laboratory at Swiss Light Source SLS, where extreme ultraviolet light can be used for EUV research. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic

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New process for the production of semiconductors

The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Finnish company PiBond to collaborate in the commercialization of advanced EUV semiconductor lithography products.

Work to install the new storage ring is already underway at the SLS. (Image: Paul Scherrer Institute / Markus Fischer) — Work to install the new storage ring is already underway at the SLS.
© Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic

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What will the SLS 2.0 upgrade mean for experiments?

Tighter beams, brighter light and extended photon energies open new experimental possibilities.

Work to install the new storage ring is already underway at the SLS. (Image: Paul Scherrer Institute / Markus Fischer) — Work to install the new storage ring is already underway at the SLS.
© Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic

The intense beams of X-ray light at the user facilities operated by the PSI Center for Photon Science shed light on the smallest structures of matter.

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Phonon promoted charge density wave in topological kagome metal ScV₆Sn₆

Charge density wave (CDW) orders in vanadium-based kagome metals have recently received tremendous attention, yet their origin remains a topic of debate. The discovery of ScV₆Sn₆, a bilayer kagome metal featuring an intriguing √3 × √3 × √3 CDW order, offers a novel platform to explore the underlying mechanism behind the unconventional CDW. Here we combine ...

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Weyl spin-momentum locking in a chiral topological semimetal

Spin–orbit coupling in noncentrosymmetric crystals leads to spin–momentum locking – a directional relationship between an electron’s spin angular momentum and its linear momentum. Isotropic orthogonal Rashba spin–momentum locking has been studied for decades, while its counterpart, isotropic parallel Weyl spin–momentum locking has remained elusive in experiments. Theory predicts ...

Dario Ferreira Sanchez vor der microXAS-Strahllinie in der Synchrotron Lichtquelle Schweiz SLS. Hier konnten die Forschenden mittels Röntgendiffraktion die chemischen Prozesse in der Lithium-Luft-Batterie offenbaren.

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Making powerful lithium-air batteries suitable for everyday use

Chemical processes in lithium-air batteries revealed using neutron beams and synchrotron light.

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