By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 October 2023 Foto: Pixabay. If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions drives Ville Maisi, Associate Professor of Solid States Physics, Department of Physics. As long as he can

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-01-29

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 30 November 2023 Ruth Pöttgen. Photo Patrik Lundin, the Wallenberg Foundations. Ruth Pöttgen, Senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, has been appointed a Wallenberg Academy Fellow. The grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation provides her with funding for five years. Congratulations Ruth, how does

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/ruth-pottgen-becomes-wallenberg-academy-fellow - 2025-01-29

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 1 December 2023 Researchers have successfully mapped three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. Photographer: ESO. By analysing high-resolution data from a 10-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers in Lund, Sweden, have managed to gain new insights into three stars in the centre of the Milky Way. The stars turned

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-have-managed-date-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-01-29

By sara [dot] hangsel [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Hängsel) - published 14 December 2023 Per Eng-Johnsson is the director of Lund Laser Centre and one of the team of researchers and doctoral students working closely with Anne L'Huillier, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2023. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg. Down in the basement of the Department of Physics, the now world-famous short laser pulses are

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/everyday-laser-flashes-and-real-world-attosecond-physics - 2025-01-29

By sara [dot] hangsel [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Hängsel) - published 15 December 2023 Welcome to participate in LTH's celebration of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. Graphic: Linda Hansson, Portrait: Andreas Magnusson Qassim. On December 18th, it's time for LTH's official celebration of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. Then our own laureate – Professor Anne L'Huillier – will hold a Nobel le

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/live-streaming-lth-nobel-lecture - 2025-01-29

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 9 January 2024 R. Michael Rich. Private Photo. The American astronomer R. Michael Rich has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy. R. Michael Rich have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Professor R. Michael Rich is based at the University of Calif

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-astrophysicist-appointed-new-honorary-doctor-science - 2025-01-29

Published 9 January 2024 Eva Lindroth. Photo: Stockholm University. Eva Lindroth is professor of Theoretical Physics at Stockholm University. In addition to being a highly cited and excellent researcher, she has been assistant supervisor for several LTH doctoral students, a frequent visiting lecturer and has included LTH doctoral students on courses at Stockholm University. All in all, she has hel

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/eva-lindroth-appointed-new-honorary-doctor-lth - 2025-01-29

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 12 January 2024 90 MSEK goes to Lund when research initiative WISE invests half a billion SEK in material science for increased sustainability – the largest investment in material science in Sweden. Photo: Kennet Ruona WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/tremendous-impact-transformation-towards-sustainable-future - 2025-01-29

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 22 January 2024 Snails with antennae illustrating nanowires. Illustration by Anastasia Tsioki. Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engineering Nanoscience programme. When Jonas

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/snails-illustrate-how-new-materials-can-be-built-nano-level - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 7 September 2020 Droplets are spread in the air when we sing – here from powerful and consonant-rich singing photographed with a high-speed camera. Photo: Alexios Matamis If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sin

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna-Karin Alm) - published 12 April 2021 Laboratory facilities within Lund University and Chalmers University will be used to prepare experiments using X-rays or neutrons. Picture from the PME-lab at Lund University. Courtesy of Jan-Eric Ståhl. Researchers from the two Strategic Research Areas NanoLund and SPI (Sustainable Production Initiative, Chalmers

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/x-rays-and-neutrons-entering-metals-and-manufacturing-industries - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 16 April 2021 We are facing new challenges, and consequently we need the development of electronics to continue. But the question is: how do we do that? Mattias Borg, co-coordinator of Exploratory Nanotechnology, explains how. The basis of the electronics we use today, such as home computers and mobile phones, was invented more

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-make-smarter-and-more-efficient-electronics - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster NanoLund) - published 6 April 2021 Using nanotechnology, researchers can insert biomolecules into the blood stem cells from the umbilical cord, without damaging the cells. NanoLund researchers Martin Hjort, Yang Chen, and Martin Borgström have been awarded the Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s prize for future innovations. Their projects are

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-innovation-prize-nanolund - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 18 April 2021 Roman Pasechnik. Photo by Gunnar Ingelman For 50 years, the research community has been hunting unsuccessfully for the so-called Odderon particle. Now, a Swedish-Hungarian research group has discovered the mythical particle with the help of extensive analysis of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/researchers-find-evidence-elusive-odderon-particle - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 12 August 2020 Martin Rey The question of how small, dwarf galaxies have sustained the formation of new stars over the course of the Universe has long confounded the world’s astronomers. An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many bill

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Sune Svanberg) - published 6 July 2020 Terra cotta soldiers guarding the tomb of emperor Qin, China. Photo: Stockphoto According to  2200 years old records, the so far never opened tomb of emperor Qin should contain large amounts of liquid mercury, forming lakes and rivers of a large-scale “map” of China, which had been unified by him.  Recently, the rese

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mercury-emission-terracotta-army-emperor-qins-mausoleum-xian-measured-lidar - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 6 December 2019 Anders Johansen Anders Johansen, professor in Astronomy at Lund University, has been chosen to be Wallenberg Scholar. The Wallenberg Scholar program focuses on Sweden's leading senior researchers. It was implemented because researchers need long-term funding without the distraction of pressure to secure external gran

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anders-johansen-has-been-chosen-be-wallenberg-scholar - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 25 January 2021 Photo by Unsplash Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a so-called “island of stability” far beyond the element uranium. However, a new study, led by nuclear physicists at Lund University, shows that

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/nuclear-physicists-voyage-towards-mythical-island - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 11 June 2021 Researchers Birger Schmitz (left) and Fredrik Terfelt (right) dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. Photo by Johan Joelsson. For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-01-29

By webmaster [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Webmaster) - published 17 October 2019 Martin Leijsne. Photo: Kennet Ruona Martin Leijnse, researcher in solid state physics at Lund University in Sweden, has received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) synergy grant worth EUR 1.5 million. He shares the total grant amount of EUR 10 million with three researchers from the University of Copenhage

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-research-unusual-quantum-state - 2025-01-29