Published 30 April 2018 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 pro

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

Published 17 April 2018 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 - 2025-07-07

Published 9 April 2018 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 I

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

Published 23 March 2018 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

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

Published 15 March 2018 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

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

Published 26 February 2018 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 belöninge

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

Published 19 February 2018 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 Insti

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

Published 16 February 2018 A group of NanoLund researchers recently reported on the first nanowire photodetector sensitive to long-wavelength infrared radiation. The infrared response from 3 to 20 μm is enabled by intersubband transitions in InAsP quantum discs synthesized axially within InP nanowires. The intriguing optical characteristics, including unexpected sensitivity to normal incident radi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-nanowire-long-wavelength-infrared-photodetector-realized - 2025-07-07

Published 14 February 2018 June 11-14 2018 are the dates of the Marcus Wallenberg symposium Tailored surfaces in operando conditions. The meeting will take place in Ystad, Sweden, and is devoted to recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The aim of the workshop is to create a breeding ground for ideas by ensuring meetin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/conference-tailored-surfaces-operando-conditions - 2025-07-07

Published 8 February 2018 The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has announced their Materials for Energy (EM16) grants. We congratulate NanoLund member Kenneth Wärnmark, who is coordinator for the projects "Iron-Based Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Processes" which is granted 34,9 MSEK. Another project on "Low-defect-density III-Nitrides for green power electronics" led by Vanya Dar

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/materials-energy-grants - 2025-07-07

Published 12 February 2018 Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant Fellows for 2017 were announced and Jesper Wallentin is one of the three new fellows. The grant is given for  one year at a time and awards the amount applied for from the ERC up to 1,5 M EUR over five years.Jesper will develop ultra-high resolution X-ray detectors based on semiconductor nanowires, whose spatial resolution will be radi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-starting-grant-fellowship - 2025-07-07

Published 7 February 2018 Lund Nano Lab is one of the six laboratories at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), which is part of LTH’s Open Door project. The LTH Open Door initiative, officially inagurated on January 18, 2018, aims at providing access to LTH’s state-of-the-art equipment, facilities and networks for start-ups or established companies in Skåne. The project will help with innovation proc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-member-lths-open-door-initiative - 2025-07-07

Published 19 February 2018 Chris Palmstrøm from UC Santa Barbara has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University.Chris Palmstrøm's research group focuses on heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devices. Chris had been a valuable returning guest and adv

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chris-palmstrom-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-07-07

Published 4 December 2017 As part of cooperation between Scandinavian cleanrooms, Lund Nano Lab (LNL) organised a joint meeting of experts in Dry Etching and Thin Films on November 16-17, 2017. Such meetings arranges on a regular basis within the Nordic Nanolab Expert Network (NNEN) – a Scandinavia-wide discussion platform of experts and lab staff in dry etching, lithography, thin films, character

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nnen-meeting-dry-etch-and-thin-films-lund-nano-lab - 2025-07-07

Published 8 February 2018 Anne Borg from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science at Lund University.Anne Borg is a physicist focusing om materials science and surface science and she has a long history of collaborating with Lund University and researching at MAX-lab. She is a former member of the NanoLund External Advisory Coun

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-borg-named-honorary-doctor - 2025-07-07

Published 4 December 2017 On November 15-16, 2017 Lund Nano Lab (LNL) hosted a second joint LNL-Plasma-Therm Plasma Processing workshop. The Workshop focused on the fundamentals of plasma reactors, mechanisms of etching and deposition as applied to nanofabrication and covered state-of-the-art etching and deposition techniques. Dr. David Lishan (Plasma-Therm, USA) gave an overview of the modern pla

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plasma-processing-workshop-lund-nano-lab - 2025-07-07

Published 8 February 2018 Developments in quantum technology and artificial intelligence, AI, are predicted to transform research, as well as business and society as a whole. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is awarding a total of SEK 1.6 billion over ten years to these promising fields, in two separate research projects involving several Swedish higher education institutions. Together wit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/billions-be-invested-ai-and-quantum-technology - 2025-07-07

Published 28 November 2017 NanoLund Affiliated Member Anne L’Huillier has been involved in a study where researchers have clocked how long it takes for an electron to be emitted from an atom. The result is 0.000 000 000 000 000 02 seconds, or 20 billionths of a billionth of a second. The researchers’ stopwatch consists of extremely short laser pulses. Hopefully, the results will help to provide ne

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/unbelievable-speed-electron-emission-atom - 2025-07-07

Published 23 October 2017 A group of Lund University researchers including Peter Schurtenberger have published a paper demonstrating that they can use oppositely charged thermoresponsive particles with complementary shapes, such as spherical and bowl-shaped particles, to implement an externally controllable lock-and-key self-assembly mechanism. The goal is to have the particles self-organize in or

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/temperature-can-control-lock-and-key-self-assembly-mechanism - 2025-07-07

Published 10 October 2017 An interdisciplinary environmental project between the Lund based theater Sagohuset and the division of Chemistry and Structural Biology at Lund University has resulted in two plays and an exhibition which shows the effects of plastic in the oceans. Tommy Cedervall can answer questions about the project. Read more on the LU event page (in Swedish), in LUM (in Swedish), Sk

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/play-nanoplastic-aquatic-environments - 2025-07-07