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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish Radio has made a feature on nanosafety - Hur farlig är nanotekniken? (in Swedish, 19 min) - involving NanoLund scientists Christina Isaxon, Knut Deppert, Maria Hedmer and Tommy Cedervall.A short version was also brought in the Science news program Vetandets värld: Säkerhetsforskningen kring nanomaterial går lå

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanosafety-featured-swedish-radio - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We congratulate our alumni Pyry Kivisaari on winning the highly prestigious Academy Postdoc funding from the Academy of Finland.  Pyry was at NanoLund during 2014-2017 as a postdoc, working on modelling of NW LEDs and solar cells, and funded by the Nokia Foundation.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/pyry-kivisaari-wins-academy-postdoc-funding - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund scientist Martin Hjort is one of the 2017 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients in the category Engineering and Applied Sciences. The annual award acknowledges papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. It is given annually to six papers published in PNAS. Read more here.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-hjort-one-2017-cozzarelli-prize-recipients - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We congratulate Anne L'Huillier for beeing elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Members are elected to the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-joins-national-academy-sciences-usa - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Understanding interface formation between InAs semiconductors and hafnium dioxide insulating layers Most semiconductor devices are still based on silicon, even though other semiconductor materials such as InAs have superior electrical properties. The problem with these materials is that their interface towards thin in

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/when-semiconductors-meets-insulating-layers - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The new Environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM) was inagurated April 12 with a full day symposium. The microscope will be used firstly by researchers enabling nanowire growth research. Read the Lund University press release (in Swedish) or the article by Ny teknik (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/live-monitoring-nanowiregrowth - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SwedNanoTech reports that six new board members entered the Board at the Annual Meeting on April 4, 2018. New to the board is NanoLund member and founder Lars Samuelson. Lars Montelius, Director General för International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal and a NanoLund Affiliated member was reelecte

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/new-board-members-swednanotech - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that the foundation LMK Stiftelsen has decided to support NanoLund with a donation of 5 MSEK for equipment for fabrication and characterisation of nanostructures. The donation is specifically motivated by research led by Lars Samuelson on light emitting diodes (LEDs) for energy-efficient,

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/donation-equipment-led-research - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund was very happy to host a visit by the Board of the Crafoord Foundation on March 14. The Foundation has supported as many as 24 grants to researchers within NanoLund supporting research projects and equipment over the last four years, most notably a 5 MSEK donation for a super-high resolution STED microscope i

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/visit-crafoord-foundation - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Kimberly Dick Thelander from the Department of Physics has been awarded the 2018 Edlund Prize and the Lindbomska award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for her cutting ­edge research on new semiconductor crystal phases in nanowires.Read more on the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' homepage (in S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/prizes-kimberly-dick-thelander - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. May 28-29 NanoLund researchers are organizing a Workshop on Superresolution Techniques at AF-borgen, Sandgatan 2 in Lund. Confirmed invited speakers are:Dr. Francisco Balzarotti, Department of NanoBio Photonics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, GermanyProf. Ralf Jungmann, Research Group "Mole

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/workshop-superresolution-techniques-2018 - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A group of NanoLund researchers recently reported on the first nanowire photodetector sensitive to long-wavelength infrared radiation. The infrared response from 3 to 20 μm is enabled by intersubband transitions in InAsP quantum discs synthesized axially within InP nanowires. The intriguing optical characteristics, in

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/first-nanowire-long-wavelength-infrared-photodetector-realized - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. June 11-14 2018 are the dates of the Marcus Wallenberg symposium Tailored surfaces in operando conditions. The meeting will take place in Ystad, Sweden, and is devoted to recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The aim of the workshop is to

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/conference-tailored-surfaces-operando-conditions - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has announced their Materials for Energy (EM16) grants. We congratulate NanoLund member Kenneth Wärnmark, who is coordinator for the projects "Iron-Based Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Processes" which is granted 34,9 MSEK. Another project on "Low-defect-density III

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/materials-energy-grants - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant Fellows for 2017 were announced and Jesper Wallentin is one of the three new fellows. The grant is given for  one year at a time and awards the amount applied for from the ERC up to 1,5 M EUR over five years.Jesper will develop ultra-high resolution X-ray detectors based on semicond

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/jesper-wallentin-gets-starting-grant-fellowship - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund Nano Lab is one of the six laboratories at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), which is part of LTH’s Open Door project. The LTH Open Door initiative, officially inagurated on January 18, 2018, aims at providing access to LTH’s state-of-the-art equipment, facilities and networks for start-ups or established compani

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/lund-nano-lab-member-lths-open-door-initiative - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Chris Palmstrøm from UC Santa Barbara has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University.Chris Palmstrøm's research group focuses on heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/chris-palmstrom-named-honorary-doctor - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As part of cooperation between Scandinavian cleanrooms, Lund Nano Lab (LNL) organised a joint meeting of experts in Dry Etching and Thin Films on November 16-17, 2017. Such meetings arranges on a regular basis within the Nordic Nanolab Expert Network (NNEN) – a Scandinavia-wide discussion platform of experts and lab s

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nnen-meeting-dry-etch-and-thin-films-lund-nano-lab - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anne Borg from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science at Lund University.Anne Borg is a physicist focusing om materials science and surface science and she has a long history of collaborating with Lund University and researching at MAX-lab. She is

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/anne-borg-named-honorary-doctor - 2026-04-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On November 15-16, 2017 Lund Nano Lab (LNL) hosted a second joint LNL-Plasma-Therm Plasma Processing workshop. The Workshop focused on the fundamentals of plasma reactors, mechanisms of etching and deposition as applied to nanofabrication and covered state-of-the-art etching and deposition techniques. Dr. David Lishan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plasma-processing-workshop-lund-nano-lab - 2026-04-21