Highlights
Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines
Electronically controlled molecular machines would be faster as well as easier to manufacture, as they would not need to rely on sophisticated chemical synthesis.
New professor Laure Mercier de Lépinay: It is important to stay flexible in our understanding of the world
Laure Mercier de Lépinay I continue to study microwave optomechanics which can allow us to uncover new fundamental physics.
Researchers will use the world’s most accurate radiation detector in quantum computers
Professor Mikko Möttönen’s team and their partners have acquired funding to refine the bolometer technology for use not only in quantum computers but also in ultralow-temperature (ULT) freezers and terahertz cameras. The funding is from the Future Makers Funding Program by Technology Industries Finland Centennial Foundation and by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. This would be the first time ever that this bolometer is utilized for practical applications.
Groundbreaking light sources can increase effectiveness and security of transferring quantum information
Researchers at Aalto University plan to build a revolutionary LED light source to generate entangled photon pairs. The research group led by Professor Pertti Hakonen has received three-year funding from the Future Makers Funding Program of Technologies Finland Centennial Foundation and Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
A major project brings together Finnish industry and research for quantum technology development
A new research project has been launched to accelerate the progress of Finnish quantum technology. The QuTI project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, will develop new components, manufacturing and testing solutions, and algorithms for the needs of quantum technology. The QuTI consortium, partly financed by Business Finland, consists of 12 partners and has a total budget of around EUR 10 million.
Using magnets to toggle nanolasers leads to better photonics
Controlling nanolasers with magnets lays the groundwork for more robust optical signalling
Moments of silence point the way towards better superconductors
Together with researchers from Lund University and VTT, the team at Aalto set up an experiment to detect smalls number of quasiparticles in real-time.
A fascination with light and its possibilities drives Professor Zhipei Sun’s research
Aalto University's Professor Zhipei Sun is on the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for the third time – congratulations!
Aalto researchers awarded Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for macroscopic quantum entanglement
Aalto University Professor Mika A. Sillanpää, his team and collaborators at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, have won the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year. The prize was awarded for establishing quantum entanglement between a pair of macroscopic drumheads – two mechanical resonators that were tiny but still much larger than the subatomic particles that are usually entangled. The award has previously been given for the first direct observation of a black hole and for the detection of gravitational waves, which also received a Nobel Prize.
A new super-cooled microwave source boosts the scale-up of quantum computers
Researchers in Finland have developed a circuit that produces the high-quality microwave signals required to control quantum computers while operating at temperatures near absolute zero. This is a key step towards moving the control system closer to the quantum processor, which may make it possible to greatly increase the number of qubits in the processor.
A new layer-by-layer built inorganic-organic material enables optical switching of magnetic properties
Materials chemists have developed a facile process for piling ultrathin inorganic and organic layers in a pre-designed manner into flexible room-temperature thin-film magnets, whose magnetic properties can be controlled with successive external light illuminations.
Material can be trained like a Pavlov dog – Professor Olli Ikkala and his team develop new materials
The sharpest tip of materials science is coming up with answers to questions such as can materials ‘learn’ new properties or how to keep a cancerous tumour alive outside the body.
Safer and more efficient rechargeable lithium batteries – Aalto is taking part in new corporate cooperation projects
International projects aim to develop new more environmentally friendly materials and production methods for rechargeable lithium batteries
Finland continues to lead battery metals and recycling research
As demand for batteries increases, the need to find solutions is urgent.
New Academy of Finland postdoctoral researchers explore new materials, mathematical modelling, and computer security
8 postdoctoral research grants were awarded to the School of Science
Aalto School of Science celebrates five new Academy Research Fellows
Manohar Kumar studies quantum information, Ivan Lomakin 3D atomic data reconstruction, Kezilebieke Shawulienu exotic materials, Arno Solin probabilistic principles and neural network models and Marijn van Vliet the visual and auditory language systems in the brain
New Academy projects will investigate drug development, superconductivity and emotional game experience
There are altogether 12 new Academy of Finland projects at the Aalto School of Science. Funding was received from all the three Academy of Finland Research Councils: Biosciences, Health and the Environment, Culture and Society and Natural Sciences and Engineering.
A story on battery recycling in HS Vision
Our professor Tanja Kallio was interviewed as an expert in HS Vision.
Aalto Mathematics professor wins Outstanding Teacher of the Year from the Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion's
This year the Outstanding Teacher of the Year is Fabricio Oliveira, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Operations Research. Aalto alumni Joonas Govenius won the Young Researcher of the Year
Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics
New technique gets around 100-year-old rule of quantum physics for the first time