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Aalto University research project on quantum technology awarded a seven-figure grant

The European Research Council has awarded Docent Mikko Möttönen the two-million-euro Consolidator Grant for a five-year research project.
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Presentation of professor: Sebastiaan van Dijken

Sebastiaan van Dijken is a Professor at the Department of Applied Physics and the leader of the Nanomagnetism and Spintronics research group.
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Maxwell’s demon as a self-contained, information-powered refrigerator

Scientists created a nano-scale device that may facilitate the design of future computers, for example.
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Autonomous Maxwell's demon

Born to be a physicist

As a child, Professor Mika Sillanpää used to devour books on particle physics and was a big fan of stars.
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Mika Sillanpää preparing a cryostat i.e. a special refrigerator for cooling the samples close to absolute zero. In addition to the list of publications, the top-level standard of Sillanpää’s research is manifested by significant funding such as the ERC Starting Grant and ERC Consolidator Grant awarded by the European Research Council.

2015 Best Physics Doctoral Dissertation and Lecturer of the Year prizes awarded

The awards for doctoral dissertations are granted in recognition of research. This year a Lecturer of the Year prize was awarded for the first time.
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Väisälä Award to Mika Sillanpää

Sillanpää was awarded for his research contributions. The award is worth 15 000 euro.
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Graphene nanoribbons get metallic

Researchers at Aalto University have succeeded in experimentally realizing metallic graphene nanoribbons that are only 5 carbon atoms wide.
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Schematic of the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope on a graphene nanoribbon. Picture: Peter Liljeroth's team.

Presentation of professor: Päivi Törmä

At the moment, her work consists of research, administrative work, and supervising master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.
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Millennium Distinction awarded to Professor Sebastiaan van Dijken

The Distinction is granted to Finnish experts whose work is connected to the research field of the winners of the preceding Millennium Prize.
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ERC Advanced Grant funding for Professor Pertti Hakonen

Aalto University also given four other ERC grants.
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When mediated by superconductivity, light pushes matter million times more

The finding paves a way for the studies of mechanical oscillations at the level of a single photon, the quantum of light.
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Mechanical oscillations mediated by superconductivity

Putting a new spin on plasmonics

Researchers at Aalto University have discovered a novel way of combining plasmonic and magneto-optical effects.
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Magnetic nanoparticles arranged in arrays put a twist on light: depending on the distance between the nanoparticles, one frequency of light (visible to the human eye by its colour) resonates in one direction; in the other direction, light (induced by quantum effects in the magnetic material) is enhanced at a different wavelength.

INFERNOS - on a way towards more energy-efficient future

Successful INFERNOS-project introduces results that weren't supposed to be possible. The findings could lead towards more energy-efficient future.
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Aalto’s first ERC Proof of Concept grant to Sebastiaan van Dijken

Professor Sebastiaan van Dijken received the grant for verification of the innovation potential of a new racetrack memory technology.
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IOP Physics World: "Graphene quantum dots split Cooper pairs"

Research on graphene shows essential advancement to enable the development of new quantum information concepts.
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Researchers observe new charge transport phenomenon

No fully corresponding phenomenon has been found in modern physics before.
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Charge transport

The Demon That Betters the World

Recent achievements at nanotechnology could lead towards a more energy-efficient future.
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Electronics from the forest

The bioeconomy offers a sustainable alternative for many of today's oil-based products.
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Ioncell cellulose fibre is a more ecological alternative to cotton.