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Thermophotonics work receives EU funding

Exploratory research into waste-energy recovery awarded Horizon 2020 grant
Research & Art
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Photo: Aalto University

Shaking Up Tech returns, this time as a virtual open event

This year, the event that encourages young women’s interest in the field of technology is online due to covid-19. The event is open to all upper-secondary school students.
Studies
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Kuva: LUT-yliopisto.

Making Waves – New seminar series on gender balance at Aalto

New series starts October 1st
University
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Aalto logo by the the shore

Five-year ERC funding to develop the next generation of carbon-based white OLED lights

Postdoctoral Researcher Konstantinos Daskalakis aims to make OLED lighting cheaper, brighter and more efficient
Research & Art
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Photo: Mikko Raskinen.

EU grants for smart materials and next generation LEDs

Three million euros grants to Assistant Professor Jaana Vapaavuori and Postdoctoral Researcher Konstantinos Daskalakis to make environmentally friendly materials
Press releases
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Jaana Vapaavuori (left) and Konstantinos Daskalakis (right)

The Finnish Research Impact Foundation awards funding to three joint projects between Aalto researchers and startup companies

The first ever research grants of the foundation support Aalto research in quantum computers, semiconductor devices and new type of sensors with superior sensitivity
Research & Art
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Kuva: Lasse Lecklin.

Quantum-mechanical interaction between two time crystals has been experimentally demonstrated

An international team of researchers have demonstrated that a new phase of matter which has, until recently, been mere speculation, obeys basic quantum mechanics laws
Research & Art
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Interaction between two time crystals. The arrows represent are magnetic moments which in reality are continuously processing (arrow tips move over the circle around the vertical axis).

A road to frustration

Aalto University theorist part of a team that opens up a new route to design exotic frustrated
quantum magnets.
Research & Art
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Magnetic materials

Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize awarded to Professor J.C. Séamus Davis

The winner of the 2020 Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize tells us about his research in quantum materials
Cooperation, Awards and Recognition, Press releases
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The Olli V Lounasmaa Memorial Prize 2020 awarded to JC Séamus Davis

Deciphering the structure of nanosystems with machine learning

The CEST group joins forces with a team in Austria to solve a long-standing puzzle in nanoscience.
Research & Art
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Image accompanying publication that resolves the structure of TCNE films on copper

Stopping the unstoppable with atomic bricks

Aalto University theorist part of a team that developed a method for trapping elusive electrons
Research & Art
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Scanning tunneling microscope tip confining electrons in graphene

World’s fastest Bose–Einstein condensate created at Aalto University

New research published in Nature Communications can make elusive state of matter in record time
Press releases, Research & Art
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A Photon energy graph

Patrick Rinke awarded Academy of Finland funding

The LearnSolar project receives funding for machine-learning based discovery of new solar cell materials.
Research & Art
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The data is based on NREL. The image is spiced up with a background

Ten new Academy projects awarded to the School of Science

The projects will investigate questions from nuclear fusion, solar energy, bio inspired materials, and many more
Research & Art
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The professors

Quantum Technology Finland awards Bayan Karimi

PhD student wins prize for her groundbreaking research achievements
Awards and Recognition
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QTF Annual Discovery Prize

Major breakthrough in extremely water-repellent materials makes them durable enough for the real world

A new armour-plated superhydrophobic material has been developed for potential uses in medical equipment, solar panels and more
Press releases
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Super hydrophobic surfaces by Juha Juvonen

A critical cascade

New Nature Physics paper shows how quantum particles approach an elusive critical regime in a quasiperiodic structure.
Research & Art
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Schematic of a wave passing through a quasiperiodic structure

Meet our newest Academy of Finland Fellows

Our researchers who have been awarded Academy of Finland Fellowships tell us about what their projects will investigate
Research & Art
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Collage of the academy of Finland Fellow

Meet the new director of OtaNano

Anna Rissanen, the new director of OtaNano, tells us about her role in developing OtaNano for the future
Appointments
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Kuva: Anna Rissanen.

Funding boost to make quantum circuits reliable

A new EU funded project led by professor Mikko Möttönen aims to demonstrate that quantum-circuit refrigerators can be reliably manufactured
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