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Between crystals, cats and quantum

Yiwen Chu in the forest

ETH Professor Yiwen Chu is investigating how to apply quantum states to ever larger objects. This should help to gain new insights into physics and develop more efficient technologies. She has now been awarded the ETH Zurich Latsis Prize for her outstanding research.

Record-breaking laser pulses

A close-up of the record-breaking laser

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a laser that produces the strongest ultra-short laser pulses to date. In the future, such high power pulses could be used for precision measurements or materials processing.

FIRST Lab Information

Cleanroom Facilities

Working in a cleanroom

FIRST-Lab provides with its cleanroom about 400 square meters of processing environment with controlled parameters for micro- and nanoscience experiments. Young scientists have the opportunity to work in the field of photo- and nanolithography, to carry out thin film deposition processes, to analyze and characterize their processed samples and to learn about epitaxy of semiconductors.

Access to FIRST

FIRST-Lab is open to all institutes at ETH and to external research laboratories, which require a cleanroom environment for their research work. We are an user lab focusing on the education and training of PhD students and Post Docs.

In order to work within FIRST, a project must be proposed to and approved by the FOT. Larger projects require approval by the FMT.

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