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 important role in sustainable development. On July 6, the 15th International Conferenc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/detailed-program-icns-15-published - 2025-08-21

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 central to solving the many challenges facing our society. As a result, we collabora

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/our-latest-annual-report-out - 2025-08-21

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 in entangled photon st

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/important-step-more-complex-quantum-computing-and-communication-protocols - 2025-08-21

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 schools in Skåne – a programme offering teenagers a way to dive into how it is to work

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/they-went-nanoscientific-summer-school - 2025-08-21

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 Viotti and Armin Tavak

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lise-viotti-and-armin-tavakoli-are-appointed-research-leaders-future - 2025-08-21

How do you challenge the struggles with your PhD? How do you explain nanoscience to pupils in elementary school? And how do you maintain the balance between science and social activities? These are topics discussed in a podcast where Areej Al-Sabban from Lund University Global Engagement talks to Adam Burke, Patrik Nilsson, and Pratik Bhagwat. In a recent podcast made by Areej Al-Sabban from Lund

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-international-podcast-visited-nanolund - 2025-08-21

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–zinc-blende–GaAs interfac

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-thickness-alters-gaas-band-structure - 2025-08-21

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 visits to ESS,MAX IV and nCHREM

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-tailored-surfaces - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 membership totals appr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-joins-national-academy-sciences-usa - 2025-08-21

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 processing, contains many d

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/when-semiconductors-meets-insulating-layers - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 Invest. Sarah is member

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-board-members-swednanotech - 2025-08-21

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 as part of our user faci

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/donation-equipment-led-research - 2025-08-21

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 Chemistry in 2014. Proj

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/visit-crafoord-foundation - 2025-08-21

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 belöningen 2018) or in Sydsvenskan (

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prizes-kimberly-dick-thelander - 2025-08-21

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 Institute of Biochemistry, Marti

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-superresolution-techniques-2018 - 2025-08-21

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 radiation, are explained by exc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-nanowire-long-wavelength-infrared-photodetector-realized - 2025-08-21