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Experimental research is performed in the domains of </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/56"><span style="font-size: small;">Laser Spectroscopy</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/53"><span style="font-size: small;">X-ray Spectroscopy</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/54"><span style="font-size: small;">Soft Matter and Photonics</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/52/"><span style="font-size: small;">Magnetism & Superconductivity</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/87/"><span style="font-size: small;">Electron Spectroscopy</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. Theoretical research is focused on </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/533"><span style="font-size: small;">Computational Physics</span></a></span>, <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/466"><span style="font-size: small;">Soft Matter</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/105"><span style="font-size: small;">Interdisciplinary Physics</span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/104"><span style="font-size: small;">Hard Condensed Matter</span></a></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and</span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/111"><span style="font-size: small;">Quantum Dynamics.</span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">We have students at both </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/393"><span style="font-size: small;">Master</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/393"><span style="font-size: small;">Bachelor</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> level, as well as </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/398"><span style="font-size: small;">Doctoral</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> students working within the research groups. In addition, we provide lectures and </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/406"><span style="font-size: small;">labs</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> for students from the other departments of the </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/science/fr/"><span style="font-size: small;">Science Faculty</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. Courses at the bachelor level are given in either of the two official languages, French or German. Masters courses, and in particular </span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/index.php/physics/49"><span style="font-size: small;">colloquia and research seminars</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, are given in English.  At the postgraduate level we offer a </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.cuso.ch/3e-cycle/physique.html"><span style="font-size: small;">coordinated teaching program</span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> in collaboration with the physics departments at other Swiss universities.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Our groups maintain a very active collaborative research program, for example, with the Adolphe Merkle Institut for Nanosciences (</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.am-institute.ch/"><span style="font-size: small;">AMI</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">), within the Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials (</span><a style="" href="/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/frimat"><span style="font-size: small;">FriMat</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">) and the Light and Matter project (</span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.lightandmatter.ch/"><span style="font-size: small;">LiMAT</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">) or with the Institute of Applied Physics (</span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.iap.unibe.ch/"><span style="font-size: small;">IAP</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">) from the </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unibe.ch/"><span style="font-size: small;">University of Bern</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. We also collaborate with several national and international research institutes such as </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.psi.ch/"><span style="font-size: small;">PSI</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> in Villigen</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.esrf.eu/"><span style="font-size: small;">ESRF</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> in Grenoble, and in several </span><a style="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/"><span style="font-size: small;">FP7</span></a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> projects (7th Framework Programme of the European Commission for Future and Emerging Technologies).</span></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="menu"> <div id="login"> <form action="" method="post" onsubmit="return authenticateUser()"> <input type="text" class="textfield inactive" name="username" id="username" value="<login>" onfocus="setLoginActive (this)"/><input type="password" class="textfield inactive" name="passwd" id="passwd" value="<pwd>" onfocus="setLoginActive (this)"/><input type="submit" class="button" value="Login" name="authenticate"/> </form> </div> <div class="menuwrapper"></div> <div class="menuwrapper"> <div class="box001"> <h3>IN COLLABORATION WITH</h3> <div class="box001_content"><ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/" target="_blank">University of Fribourg</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/science/fr" target="_blank">Faculty of Science</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/frimat/en" target="_blank">Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials - FriMat</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.am-institute.ch/" target="_blank">Adolphe Merkle Institute - AMI</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.bioinspired-materials.ch/" target="_blank">NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials</a></li></ul></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="sidebarcontent"><div class="box003"><div style="width: inherit; overflow: auto;"> <h1>Hot off the press!</h1> <h1>June 29, 2015</h1> <p>Dispersion forces between small objects are ubiquitous in nature and play a key role in the behavior observed in biological fluids such as proteins and blood cells. In an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150622/ncomms8460/abs/ncomms8460.html">article</a> in Nature Communications, the group of Prof. Frank Scheffold at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/en/page/54/">University of Fribourg</a> and colleagues from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid show for the first time that it is possible to induce and control this type of dispersion force at the nanoscale with external laser fields. See also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/news/fr/14465/">press release</a>.</p> </div> <p><img align="middle" width="160" height="119" alt="" src="/web/20150928044603im_/http://physics.unifr.ch/admin/dbproxy.php?table=fuman_filepool&column=content&id=1537"/></p></div></div> <div class="sidebarcontent"><div class="box003"><h1>Hot off the press!</h1> <h1>August 18, 2014</h1> <p>The group of Prof. Philipp Aebi published a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.197001">PRL article</a> on the structural and doping nature of native defects in TiSe2, a compound that can be superconducting under certain conditions and also presents a phase transition to a charge density wave (CDW) state. The dominant native single atom dopants were precisely identified here for the first time.<br/> Coverage by UNIFR: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/news/de/12817/">de</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.unifr.ch/news/fr/12817/">fr</a> and a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.freiburger-nachrichten.ch/nachrichten-kanton/forscher-entdecken-schwaechen-bei-supraleiter">newspaper</a> article.</p></div></div> <div class="sidebarcontent"><div class="box003"><h1>PHOTON</h1> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://physics.unifr.ch/en/page/433/">Life at the Department</a></p></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer">University of Fribourg, Department of Physics, Chemin du Mus茅e 3, 1700 Fribourg. Tel:(+41)26/300-9060, Fax:(+41)26/300-9747<br/> last update: 29.06.2015 16:19  -   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150928044603/http://www.swissuniversity.ch/"><img src="/web/20150928044603im_/http://physics.unifr.ch/img/su.gif" alt="Swiss University" width="103" height="10" border="0" align="middle" longdesc="http://www.swissuniversity.ch/"/></a>   </div> </div> </body> </html>