By peter [dot] kjallkvist [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Peter Kjällkvist) - published 16 April 2025 An international consortium led by the Sociology of Law Department has received the equivalent of 61.5 million SEK to establish a PhD programme exploring social and legal structures in authoritarian countries in Central Asia.The programme will involve 17 doctoral researchers doing their PhDs at the co

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/eu55-million-grant-establish-international-phd-programme-coordinated-lund-university - 2025-07-11

By peter [dot] kjallkvist [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Peter Kjällkvist) - published 23 April 2025 Getting external funds for your research project is often what makes or breaks it at an early stage, but finding one that suits is a challenge, as is finding one that accepts applications at the right time. Welcome to the jungle! On LUSEM’s “Research grants” page you will find a lengthy list of funder

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/funds-grants - 2025-07-11

By peter [dot] kjallkvist [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Peter Kjällkvist) - published 24 April 2025 Linn recently nailed her thesis to the wall here at LUSEM, as is tradition. She has been doing her research at the Department of Economic History and her work is called " Garment Workers and the Labour Issue in Development". She is now preparing the defense of the dissertation, which will take place o

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/new-thesis-three-questions-linn-ternsjo - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 27 May 2025 Ulrika Lindstrand, president of Engineers of Sweden, with aerosol researchers Malin Alsved and Jakob Löndahl – this year’s Levi Prize winners. Aerosol researchers Malin Alsved and Jakob Löndahl are awarded the Levi Prize 2025 from the Engineers of Sweden. They receive the prize for their research on how covid-19

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/work-environment-prize-malin-alsved-and-jakob-londahl - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 5 June 2025 Lars-Erik Wernersson is on his way up to his new office at The Loop in Science Village. Photo: Jessika Sellergren Science Village will now be the focal point for semiconductor research in Lund after Lars-Erik Wernersson’s research group moved to The Loop. The move is expected to provide new opportunities for coll

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-semiconductor-research-moves-science-village - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 11 June 2025 Lund Nano Lab has been awarded one of the highest levels of certifications by My Green Lab, a non-profit organisation with a mission to build a global culture of sustainability in science. Last year, Sarah McKibbin received funding from the Lund University Sustainability Fund for a project aimed at making the Lund N

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-awarded-platinum-certification-my-green-lab - 2025-07-11

Published 12 June 2025 “This investment strengthens Lund University’s position as a leading research university, both nationally and internationally,” says Erik Renström Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Two positions in the NanoLund research environment are available with

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-part-lund-universitys-largest-ever-recruitment-drive - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 17 June 2025 The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-15) takes place in July at Malmö Live. Consumer electronics, radar and mobile antennas, quantum technology, lasers, and lighting. These are just some of the applications that can benefit from Nitride semiconductors – a research field that plays an imp

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/detailed-program-icns-15-published - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 17 June 2025 Read all about our successful year – highlighting our research, grants, awards, and publications, paving the way to new frontiers and constantly growing, thanks to the hard work of our scientific community and all those who support us. We are fortunate to work in areas with extreme attention worldwide, as they are c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-latest-annual-report-out - 2025-07-11

Published 18 June 2025 Three-dimensional three-particle GHZ state by Path Identity. A new study has recently been published in Nature Communications: “Observation of Genuine High-dimensional Multi-partite Non-locality in Entangled Photon States”. This work marks a significant advancement in high-dimensional quantum technologies, demonstrating, for the first time, genuine multi-partite non-locality

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-more-complex-quantum-computing-and-communication-protocols - 2025-07-11

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 26 June 2025 Elsa Thelander, Ingrid Frostgård and Albin Johannesson are getting supervision from PhD student Emelie Zhu at the NanoLund Summer Scholarship for high school students. Photo: Evelina Lindén “A good way to see the daily life of science.” That is one of the conclusions from the summer scholarship holders from high sch

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/they-went-nanoscientific-summer-school - 2025-07-11

Published 26 June 2025 Armin Tavakoli and Anne-Lise Viotti are two of the new Research Leaders of the Future, according to the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF. Photo: Johan Lindskoug and Kumri Altunkaynak “Novel nonlinear optical platforms for advanced materials” – and ”Beyond binary quantum communication”. Those are the two projects that brought associate senior lecturers Anne-Lise

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lise-viotti-and-armin-tavakoli-are-appointed-research-leaders-future - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11

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 - 2025-07-11