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Funding for four new Academy Research Fellow and 14 Postdoctoral Researcher posts
The funding for the five-year Academy Research Fellow and the three-year Postdoctoral Researcher posts was awarded by the Academy of Finland's Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering.
When nothing is impossible: technology sector offers a variety of career paths
The message of Aalto Junior’s Women’s Day event was that, in the field of technology, nothing is impossible for women. More than 100 participants from schools in Greater Helsinki had an opportunity to visit, among others, Aalto's space laboratory.
Low Temperature Laboratory receives over one million euros in funding, opening more widely to European researchers
The Low Temperature Laboratory develops quantum sensors needed in nanoelectronics research, among other core activities
Quantum physicists succeed in controlling energy losses and shifts
Achievement can be applied to speed up quantum computers and design new quantum technological devices
Outstanding referee 2019 award ɫɫ University physicists
Professors Päivi Törmä and Sergei A. Tretyakov named Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society.
Faster method to read quantum memory
Scientists at Aalto University and VTT have developed a faster way to read information out of qubits, the basic building blocks of a quantum computer
2.5 million euros for Aalto SCI research infrastructures
Both equipment and technical support personnel receive funding.
Research infrastructures received 4.7 million euros from the Academy of Finland
Aalto University's research infrastructures receiving funding focus on, for instance, new materials, bioeconomy and quantum technologies, as well as the development of maritime research technology and future wireless networks.
Breakthrough in photonics: data-transmitting light signal gets power boost from nanosized amplifier
An international team of researchers from Aalto University and Université Paris-Sud has significantly improved the propagation of data inside a microchip
Secrets of our universe live in a big blue cylinder
There isn’t much on Earth but you can find it just about everywhere else — how a type of helium might tell us how everything we know got its start.
First confirmation of a Wigner crystal in graphene paves the way for a new kind of quantum computing
Using graphene, exotic arrangements of electrons can be studied, with possible applications including quantum computing.
Take advantage of the lowered threshold to use OtaNano experimental facilities!
OtaNano offers a wide variety of fabrication processes and equipment for micro- and nanostructures for Aalto users.
Quantum physics and technology research receives billion-euro funding from the EU — Aalto University involved in three projects
Aalto University research groups will study and develop technology for quantum communication, ultra-sensitive magnetic sensors based on quantum optics, and photon-emitting quantum chips. The Quantum Flagship launched by the European Union will provide funding for ten years and for over 5000 researchers with one billion euros. The flagship will consolidate the best quantum physics research in Europe and transfer quantum technology from the lab to the market.
Cryocourse 2018 on low-temperature technology at Aalto
This international school provides training on fundamental and industrial issues on cryogenics 21-26 September 2018.
Qubits as valves: controlling quantum heat engines
Researchers from Aalto University are designing nano-sized quantum heat engines to explore whether they may be able to outperform classical heat engines in terms of power and efficiency.
Ultimate precision for sensor technology using qubits and machine learning
Extracting information quickly from quantum states is necessary for future quantum processors and super-sensitive detectors in existing technologies.
Time crystals may hold secret to coherence in quantum computing
New experimental evidence also lays groundwork for new ways of studying time
Peter Liljeroth appointed as Academy Professor
The Academy of Finland has granted funding for ten new Academy Professors in different fields of science. Aalto University has recently also received Academy funding for seven Academy Fellows and eight Postdoctoral Researchers.
Ultrafast laser pulse created by golden nanoparticles
The creation of a fast, tunable and stable nanoparticle-array laser is a stepping stone to affordable and efficient sensing and switching.
Einstein’s “spooky action” goes massive!
The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size. Results published in Nature show how two vibrating drumheads, the width of a human hair, can display the spooky action.
