Latest research news
Atomic structure of metal-halide perovskites from first principles: The chicken-and-egg paradox of the organic-inorganic interaction
Jingrui's paper about the atomic structure of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications just appeared as Physical Review B 94, 045201 (2016)
Systems researcher makes life easier
Thanks to Professor Yu Xiao and her colleagues, getting lost at airports and shopping centres may soon be history.
Enforcing the linear behavior of the total energy with hybrid functionals: Implications for charge transfer, interaction energies, and the random-phase approximation
Our paper "Enforcing the linear behavior of the total energy with hybrid functionals" has been published in Physical Review B.
Researchers printed energy producing photographs
With the method developed in Aalto University, any picture or text could be inkjet-printed as a solar cell.
Wave-function inspired density functional applied to the H2/H+2 challenge
Our paper "Wave-function inspired density functional applied to the H2/H+2 challenge" is now published in the New Journal of Physics.
Aalto-2 satellite is ready for space
The design and construction of the satellite have utilised technology and experience from Aalto-1.
A paper by marketing scholars from Aalto University appears in Journal of Marketing
A study by former and current researchers from the Aalto University School of Business appears in the latest (May) issue of Journal of Marketing.
Two computer science articles have been made into videos
The videos have been made for the cross disciplinary Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD 2016.
Restaurant Day turns the logic of retail successfully on its head
Retail is not only economic exchange, but also an important part of social interaction.
ERC Proof of Concept to Mikko Möttönen
The Proof of Concept grant will be used to develop commercial applications.
New record in microwave detection
Aalto University researchers have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection.
Potential for distributed photovoltaics in urban Chile
Aalto-Chile collaboration addresses Chile's solar potential: Photovoltaics in cities could satisfy 22% of Chile’s electricity demand.
The CQE funding to Sillanpää, Hakonen and Paraoanu
5 applications were submitted by the deadline in May.
Baker's yeast to help in fight against blue-green algal toxins
A team of students from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki will take part in the iGEM competition a world-wide, synthetic biology event.
Surgify technology to make cranial surgery safer and faster
An innovation refined at Aalto may aid physicians and patients in just over a year.
Professor of Practice Antti Suhonen's paper accepted in the Journal of Portfolio Management
"Quantifying Backtest Overfitting in Alternative Beta Strategies", forthcoming in the Journal of Portfolio Management.
Matthijs Lof appointed as Assistant Professor in Finance (2. term)
Assistant Professor of Finance Matthijs Lof has been appointed for a second term at the Department of Finance.
Skype data of 500 million people reveals the real patterns of social adoption
Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades.
Economics research increasingly of interest also to women
The Department of Economics has seen around a dozen women defending their doctoral theses over the last two years.
Researchers implemented a prototype for Narrowband Internet-of-Things system
This is among the first standalonemode NB-IoT, Narrowband Internet-of-Things, implementations in the world.
