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Congratulations to Margherita Melegari for her outstanding performance at the 2025 Université de Genève final of Ma Thèse en 180 Secondes - Suisse !Margherita Melegari, PhD candidate at the DQMP, Section de physique, UNIGE, supervised by Prof. Alberto Morpurgo, was awarded the 2nd Prize by the ...

Researchers reveal signatures of supersymmetry that could open new doors to quantum computing and our understanding of the universe.

Materials known as multiferroics exhibit more than one primary ferroic order in a given phase. The coexistence of multiple physical phases is highly interesting as by coupling these orders, we can deterministically control and understand the origins of states of matter. CrPS4, a two-dimensional...

The 2024 edition of the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar includes an invited contribution on superconductivity and its applications (here is the link) by Prof. Carmine Senatore. This piece emphasizes the transformative role of superconductor technology in revolutionizing energy efficiency,...

Ferroelectrics are materials that maintain an electric dipole in the absence of an electric field. Applying an electric field to a ferroelectric can switch the direction of the electric dipole or even change their shape, and this has made them pivotal as sensors, transducers, or memories for...

Prof. Carmine Senatore was invited to give a plenary lecture entitled “Advancing Superconductor Technology for High-Field Applications: Current State and Emerging Trends” at the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference, ICEC29-ICMC 2024.

How can a structure hold together when its individual components repel each other ? An international research team has answered this question demonstrating an example of such a highly excited exotic quantum state of the matter. Researchers from the universities of Geneva, Augsburg, Bonn and...

A marking technology developed by PHASIS, a spin-off of the DQMP, was nominated among the 5 best innovations at the EPHJ 2024 fair (PALEXPO, Geneva).

An international research team from Innsbruck and Geneva has, for the first time, probed the dimensional crossover for ultracold quantum matter. In the regime between one and two dimensions, the quantum particles perceive their world as being 1D or 2D depending on the length scale on which they...

The scientific community has long been fascinated by the mysterious behavior of charge density waves (CDWs) in certain metals, particularly those based on vanadium in the kagome structure. A recent breakthrough, outlined in the paper titled "Phonon Promoted Charge Density Wave in Topological...

A UNIGE team is developing new alloys with bactericidal properties to combat antibiotic-resistant germs.

It is known since 2004 that a boundary (interface) between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3, which are both insulating oxide materials, hosts an electrically conducting two-dimensional electron system (2DES). It is also known that two-dimensional electron systems support plasmon-polaritons, which are peculiar...

150,000 CHF for faster, easier analysis of spectroscopic data in materials science.

Quantum breakthroughs are opening up enormous horizons. In this race between science and diplomacy, Geneva holds a key role.

John Letzing, a journalist at the World Economic Forum, recently sat down with Prof. Carmine Senatore to discuss the fascinating realm of superconducting technologies. While the scientific community initially buzzed with excitement over claims of achieving room-temperature superconductivity,...

The combination of a high-precision marking technique, developed by a UNIGE spin-off, and a tamper-proof digital certification system enables any valuable object to be authenticated and tracked.

The Executive Committee (ExCo) of the International Energy Agency’s Technology Collaboration Program on High Temperature Superconductors (IEA HTS TCP) convened in Geneva, Switzerland for a three-day meeting from Monday, September 18th, to Wednesday, September 20th. The HTS TCP’s mission is to...

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carmine Senatore is the first UNIGE expert to collaborate with the World Economic Forum on a "transformation map". His mission: to raise the profile of superconducting technologies in economic and political circles.