In July 2026, record wireless data rates have been transmitted across the city of Zurich within the framework of EU project ECO-eNET. Researchers from ETH Zurich succeeded in transmitting data across a distance of 5.5 km from the Uetliberg mountain to the campus of ETH Zurich to at data rates of 138.6 Gigabits per second. That is a speed usually associated with optical fiber cables. The link ran through ordinary summer weather, over city terrain, rivers and forest.
Joep Van den Eijnden has been awarded first prize in the Jan Evetts Award for the paper “A Multiscale Modeling Framework for Accelerator Magnets Accounting for Fabrication-Induced Deformation and Operational Strain in Nb₃Sn Rutherford Cables.” Selected as the best paper in this years Jan Evetts collection of Superconductor Science and Technology, the work presents a multiscale analysis of Nb₃Sn cables including the fabrication-induced deformation and operational strain in accelerator magnets.
The artwork created by Dr. Stefan Köpfli, senior researcher at the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), has been featured on the front cover of "ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces", a distinctive honour for both image and the associated paper "Ambient to Cryogenic High-Frequency Response of Zero-Bias".
