Current news at the Department of Physics

The Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, hosts again the annual Nanoscience Days conference on 10th – 11th of October 2023 in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Newly appointed professor at the University of Jyväskylä Juha Muhonen is interested in quantum technologies, such as quantum sensors and quantum computers.

A classic movie was once promoted with the punchline: ”In space, no one can hear you scream”.

M.Sc. Marjut Hukkanen defends her doctoral dissertation ”Penning-trap mass spectrometry: commissioning of PIPERADE and measurements of neutron-rich A = 100 – 120 nuclei at JYFLTRAP”.

An experiment performed in the Accelerator Laboratory of University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has succeeded in producing a previously unknown atomic nucleus, 190-Astatine, consisting of 85 protons and 105 neutrons.

High school students and their teachers have another rare opportunity to conceive an experiment to be performed at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä.

In her thesis work, Heidi Rytkönen has investigated the physics performance of a new particle detector of the ALICE experiment (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) in CERN.

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In her dissertation, Lama Al Ayoubi presents experimental results on the beta decay of gallium-82, gallium-83 and arsenic-86 nuclei.

M.Sc. Zhuoran Geng defends his doctoral dissertation ”Piezoelectrically mediated acoustic phonon tunneling”.

M.Sc. Holly Tann defends her doctoral dissertation ”Excited states in the highly deformed proton emitter 131Eu”.

It is well known that highly energetic ions can modify the shape of embedded metallic nanoparticles while they are embedded in an amorphous insulating material.