Topological phases of matter exhibit remarkable electronic properties that offer unique possibilities for applications. A prominent example is the robust quantization of the Hall conductivity in quantum Hall insulators. A widespread technique for gener…
In 2009 Photonics was named by the European Commission as one of five European key enabling technologies due to its potential to offer innovations across a wide range of fields, including medicine, energy conversion and conservation, lighting and high-…
Pizza Lunch and Movie: “The Wife”
13h, ICFO Blue Lecture Room
Why not do something different for lunch today? Join us for a pizza lunch while we watch this 2017 movie based on the novel “The Wife” by Meg Wolitzer. In it we are presented th…
Photonics has proven to be an essential ingredient in our modern world. Due to its unique properties, light has emerged as a core element of daily products and technologies such as smartphones, laptops, the Internet, medical instruments, industrial pr…
Ten years ago, the newspaper La Vanguardia, with the support of Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, launched the “Vanguard of Science“ (La Vanguardia de la Ciencia) awards, aimed at giving visibility to frontier scientific research in Spain. The 2020 editio…
In 2018, thirty-one ICFO PhD students defended their theses at the institute. From this pool, the PhD Committee launched an in-depth deliberation to determine the recipients of the PhD Thesis Awards, granting the prizes in a special ceremony in the fra…
Time-resolved electron imaging, diffraction and spectroscopy are exceptional laboratory-based tools to trace non-equilibrium dynamics in materials with a sensitivity to structural, electronic and electromagnetic degrees of freedom. The capabilities of …
The ‘strange metal’, a state of matter formed by electrons in many modern materials, including the compounds which exhibit high temperature superconductivity. In this state, electrons quantum entangle with each other and conduct electric current colle…
The project Adaptive Retinal Implant Technology for Vision Restoration (i-VISION), which began in 2017 as a collaborative project between BIST centers funded through BIST IGNITE program, has been awarded a “la Caixa” Health Research Grant. This is the …
ICFO announces the new Light Seminar Series, merging the Light for Health and Graphene Seminar series, while expanding to include new seminars on Quantum Technologies.
The goal of these seminars is to invite scientists and experts at the global fr…
Four hundred and eight early-career researchers have been awarded European Research Council grants in this year’s first completed ERC call for proposals. The highly-coveted funding will help individual scientists and scholars to build their own teams a…
Understanding strong electronic correlations and how to make useful devices from that (such as a room temperature superconductor or a protected quantum computer) is considered by many as one of the most important unsolved issues in condensed matter phy…