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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03

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 - 2025-07-03