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ThALES. Photo: R. Cubitt, ILL Electrons and magnetismIn modern physics of the past century, understanding the electronic properties and interactions between electrons inside matter has been a major challenge. Electrons are responsible for the chemical link between …

The crystal structure of bismuth vanadate is made up of two types of sub-lattice: the Bi-O sub-lattice (depicted in yellow) and the V-O sub-lattice (depicted in brown). 23 July 2019Given the ever-increasing need for cleaner, more efficient energy sources, materia…

On 15th July Switzerland’s Scientific Membership of the ILL was officially renewed for another 5 years.

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Newly discovered multiferroic nano-clusters might help to enable the next generation of processor and memory devices 24.06.2016A team of scientists from England, Germany and France recently discovered novel so-called multiferroic clusters. Results were published as a featured article in the journa…

The wax surface on the leaves of plants, such as barley and wheat crops, acts as a protective barrier against environmental attacks including pests, and water and nutrient loss. The wax surface is also involved in the uptake and transportation of water and nutrients across the plant surface for pl…

On the International Day of LGBTQ+ People in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM), the EIROforum DGs pay a special tribute to the indispensable contributions of LGBTQ+ colleagues in the STEM fields.

The inaugural Oed prize has been awarded to Rui de Oliveira of CERN for his major contribution in the development of micro-pattern gas detectors.

Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser setup used for the determination of the ionization potential of promethium at Mainz University. 26 June 2019Timely for the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's…

Photo of the PERKEO III spectrometer during tests at Heidelberg University. Credit: Hartmut Abele. The to date most accurate measurement of the weak axial vector coupling constant gA has just been published as Editors' suggestion in PRL [1]. This fundamental consta…

Anton Oed, a passionate inventor and a source of inspiration for many of us today, passed away on 30 September 2018. His introduction of micro-strip gas chambers (MSGCs) at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in 1988 was a decisive breakthrough in the field of radiation detectors. It demonstrated a s…

An observation of oscillations of neutrons into antineutrons, occurring even with a vanishingly small probability, would violate the law of conservation of baryon number and would constitute a scientific discovery of fundamental importance for physics and cosmology. A strong hint that this law mig…