Current news at the Department of Physics

Our body and the matter around us is composed of chemical elements mainly created in stars via nuclear reactions and complex nuclear reaction networks.

One of the most used methods in condensed matter theory and quantum chemistry for the description of matter properties is Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT), an alternative formalism to wave function methods which uses the time-dependent...

Research in education at the University of Jyväskylä did well in the QS World University Rankings by Subject:  As in previous years, it was ranked 101–150.

Graphene is a material made of a single layer of carbon atoms.

A new ion source known as HIISI has been developed in the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä (JYFL-ACCLAB).

The recent doctoral thesis in physics focuses on the study of the hottest matter ever created in laboratory, the quark-gluon plasma and a detector upgrade that would enhance the future research.

Academy Professor Hannu Häkkinen has been named as one of the most-cited researchers in the world in 2018 by Clarivate Analytics in its annual “highly cited researchers” list. The 2018 list includes 35 researchers from Finland.

The Accelerator Laboratory (JYFL) is the northernmost large-scale facility for accelerator-based nuclear structure studies in the world, located at the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

University of Jyväskylä’s Laser laboratory of the Nanoscience Center (Laserlab-NSC) became a full member of Laserlab-Europe in the general assembly of the consortium at Salamanca, Spain.

Experts in superconductivity and ultrasensitive detectors of electromagnetic radiation meet 25.-26.9.2018 in Jyväskylä, marking the start of the four-year EU FET Open project SUPERTED.

Understanding plasma behaviour is of utmost importance for amongst others possible future energy generation exploiting the process of nuclear fusion and for ion extraction from laboratory plasmas.

Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and University of Tampere (Finland) together with BioNavis Ltd (Finland) have developed a novel nanoactuator system, where conformation of biomolecule can be tuned by electric field and probed using...