Organisation : Département Physique et sciences des matériaux
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Chercheurs à l’école 2023: researchers went back to school
En savoir plusFrom 13 to 17 March 2023, 24 researchers from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) participated in the 12th edition of « Chercheurs à l’école » organised by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). They shared their passion and experience as researchers with secondary school students in Luxembourg.
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Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2022 in science
En savoir plusThe Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded 13 doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. Their research covers a wide variety of topics, tackling important issues and providing innovative solutions. They now continue their career in both academia and industry.
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Prof. Siebentritt receives honorary doctorate from Uppsala University
En savoir plusProf. Susanne Siebentritt from the Department of Physics at the University of Luxembourg has recently been awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. This distinction marks her impressive work on the development of thin film solar cells and research on complex material systems used in them, like chalcopyrites and kesterites. She has…
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Significant advances in nonequilibrium physics
En savoir plusPhase transitions are ubiquitous in Nature and manifest in the sudden changes in the state of matter when the external conditions are varied. Cooling a piece of iron can turn it into a ferromagnet and make a gas of alkali atoms form a Bose-Einstein condensate. The driving of phase transition leads to the formation of…
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(post)Modern Thermodynamics School and Workshop
En savoir plusOrganized by members of the Department of Physics and Materials Science and co-funded by the FNR and by the University of Luxembourg, the event (post)Modern Thermodynamics consisted of a school and a workshop that took place at the University of Luxembourg during the second week of December 2022. Approximately 30 members from the University of…
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Physics department workshop: community building & synergy development
En savoir plusThe annual workshop of the Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPhyMS) was held on December 5th, 2022, at the Maison des Arts et des Etudiants on the Belval Campus. This event is a great opportunity for academic members of the Department and bachelor/master students in physics to discuss with colleagues and fellow scientists and…
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Physics Seminar: From single cells to filaments: a dance of geometry and motion
En savoir plusFrom single cells to filaments: a dance of geometry and motionIn recent years, biological motile cells like bacteria and microalgae have attracted considerable interestnot only among biologists but also in the physics community and related fields. Understanding theirmotion has immense biological and ecological implications. The possibility to harness their motion topower microdevices is a topic…
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Colour-changing fibres for smart clothes
En savoir plusWhen we think about clothing, we usually think of it as something we wear to cover our body, convey our style and protect us from the environment. What if the cloth changes its visual appearance when you stretch your hand?… such mechanoresponsive material has enormous potential in a large range of transformative applications in the…