The combination of magnetic images from surface sensitive PEEM and bulk sensitive transmission X-ray microscopy supported by micromagnetic simulations, provided experimental evidence of the existence of the stabilization magnetic hopfion quasiparticles in magnetic multilayers.
A team of scientists has shown that Bromine (Br) incorporation in polycrystalline cesium lead triiodide (CsPbI3) thin films, with composition CsPbI3-xBrx, modifies the crystal structure by changing the symmetry of the lattice. This change, in turn, governs the formation of the different, energetically favored textures within the thin film. Controlling grain orientations within polycrystalline all‐inorganic halide perovskite solar cells can help increase conversion efficiencies, which would represent great progress in the field of renewable energies. This discovery comes directly from synchrotron X‐ray diffraction experiments carried out at the ALBA Synchrotron and the European Radiation Facility in Grenoble.
A CSIC project reveals a new pharmacological site of the protein that is part of the roads that carry viruses and spread them in infected cells. The XALOC beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron contributed in determining the structure of this protein. Its discovery, thanks to the use of a new natural compound from cyanobacteria, opens the door to new drugs against viral infections or cancer.
Researchers from the Sapienza University in Rome, in collaboration with the ALBA Synchrotron, have demonstrated a further pathway to tune the magnetic response of a metal-organic semiconductor molecule interfaced with a graphene-covered cobalt film. Organic molecules with a spin, coupled to a magnetic substrate, can be a key element in the development of future organic-spintronic applications.
Cadmium is a heavy metal considered one of the most toxic elements to which humans can be exposed. The present study identifies the processes that control the mobility of cadmium in soil-rice system, by means of isotope and X-rays absorption spectroscopy speciation analyses performed at Soleil and ALBA synchrotrons, at the CLAESS beamline.
