The physicist Bernadette Rosati investigates how salt particles from the sea influence the weather and climate. The Schrödinger fellow has found the perfect conditions for her research at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. The chemistry is just right – not only at sea, but also within the team and across all the faculties. Continue reading “The atmospheric group”
One of the elements modern diesel engines require to become energy-efficient and clean are precisely controllable injection nozzles using piezo crystals. How exactly these crystals work has not been fully understood to date. A group of researchers from Leoben has now managed to make this technology more reliable and efficient. Their results are also of […] Continue reading “Better injection systems for diesel engines”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the physicist Serdar Sarıçiftçi investigates possible uses in electronics of the semiconductor properties of indigo pigment. Continue reading “Denim-coloured transistors”
The experimental physicist Siegfried Bauer talks about thinking outside the box and “old guys”, and about how he became an internationally renowned scholar with the help of toy bricks, plastic film and a fondness for flexible electronics. Continue reading ““Only those who fail can progress””
In Berkeley, Schrödinger Fellow Philipp Haslinger pursues the phenomenon of dark energy. His research team has published on this topic in journals such as Science. In his spare time, the physicist translates his expertise into photographic projects. – And thereby attracts international attention. Continue reading “Hotel California”
The stability of a very efficient and cheap material for solar cells has now been enhanced by up to two orders of magnitude. The material manipulations that enabled this enhancement were developed in a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF – and their “secret” was recently published in Nano Letters. Continue reading “Stability of cheap solar cells improved”
The interactions between graphene and its environment have a significant influence on the use of this promising material by the semiconductor industry. Thanks to the comprehensive findings of an international research project, these interactions are now better understood and can be controlled as a result. Continue reading “New insights concerning miracle material graphene”
The physicist Stefan Janecek spent his Erwin Schrödinger Programme in Barcelona and Madrid. There he did a big step forward in finding the solution to a fundamental physics problem. Continue reading “On the Road in Barcelona and Madrid”
In the context of his Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship, the physicist Michael Ruggenthaler does research in Finland. From the far north he reports about nature governing life’s rhythms and the freedoms found in daily research routine. Continue reading “Itävallasta Jyväskylään – from Austria to Jyväskylä”