Published 17 September 2018 At the 10th International Aerosol Conference in Saint Louis, USA in September 2018, NanoLund PhD students Malin Alsved and Louise Green from Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at Lund University won poster prizes - ”Overall top poster contest winner” - as they both finished in the top 5 after votation among the conference participants. Malins Alsved's poster was entitled

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-awards-m-alsved-and-l-gren - 2025-03-08

Published 3 September 2018 Irene Geijselaers won the best student poster award at the 34th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) in Montpellier, France this summer. The poster was entitled “Determination of the band offsets in Wurtzite-Zinc-blende InP nanowires by means of photoluminescence spectroscopy”.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-student-poster-award-irene-geijselaers - 2025-03-08

Published 24 August 2018 NanoLund scientists are successful in more than “just” nanosience: our warmest congratulations to our Board member and scientist Sara Snogerup Linse for winning gold over both the Middle and the Long distance in her age group in the  World Masters Orienteering Championships this summer. It’s great to see great science balanced by great sports!

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-wins-world-championships - 2025-03-08

Published 13 August 2018 A recent article in Nature Nanotechnology by NanoLund researchers show that a quantum dot-based heat engine can convert heat into work with an efficiency similar to that of similar machines with moving parts. As quantum dot-based engine has no moving parts it may be useful in applications such as nanotechnology and remote sensing. To Chemistry World, Heiner Linke explains:

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/quantum-dot-heat-engine-works-without-moving-parts - 2025-03-08

Published 2 July 2018 Calle Preger was awarded with ”Best Poster Award” at the conference Aerosol Technology in Bilbao for his poster “Using COMSOL Multiphysics as a Tool to Predict Aerosol Deposition Spot Size of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP)”

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-award-calle-preger - 2025-03-08

Published 2 July 2018 NanoLund PhD student Mohammad Karimi has been selected to receive the SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, an educational not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based science, engineering, and technolog

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/mohammad-karimi-receives-spie-scholarship - 2025-03-08

Published 24 August 2018 NanoLund researcher Jesper Wallentin has been granted an ERC starting grant. His project will investigate whether semiconductor nanowires can be used as high resolution X-ray detectors. Wallentins group have some initial results that show that they can get a measurable electric current from single nanowires that are exposed to X-rays. Long term, the hope is that nanostruct

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-erc-starting-grant - 2025-03-08

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 25 February 2025 The Boards of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and the Faculty of Science have decided to aim for a more modest establishment in Science Village, i.e. the area between Max IV and ESS. They justify the decision by the fact that the Departments of Physics and Chemistry would incur high rental costs if both research an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/establishment-operations-underway-it-will-be-smaller-scale-and-first-and-second-cycle-studies-will - 2025-03-08

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 6 March 2025 Vanya Darakchieva and Andri Dhora work on the PLD apparatus. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors-0 - 2025-03-08

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 February 2025 From the abstract: Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for optoelectronic applications due to their strongly bound excitons. Dark excitons are material excitations not visible under light illumination. Some acquire intrinsic momentum and become inherently mobil

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/dark-excitons-may-be-suitable-charge-transport-future-solar-cell-technologies - 2025-03-08

Published 25 July 2018 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–zi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-thickness-alters-gaas-band-structure - 2025-03-08

Published 19 February 2018 Photo: Emilie Hilner 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 visi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-tailored-surfaces - 2025-03-08

Published 30 May 2018 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 - 2025-03-08

Published 21 May 2018 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 - 2025-03-08

Published 14 May 2018 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 - 2025-03-08

Published 8 May 2018 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 m

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-joins-national-academy-sciences-usa - 2025-03-08

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 - 2025-03-08

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 - 2025-03-08

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 - 2025-03-08

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 - 2025-03-08