Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” have achieved a breakthrough: They created a completely new type of plasma by combining state-of-the-art technologies using ultrashort laser pulses and ultracold atomic gases. They report on a novel electron cooling mechanism occurring in such...

Electrons in solids can have only certain energies, called bands. In recent years, it was shown experimentally that the range of energies allowed for electrons can be tuned by twisting two layers of graphene relative to each other. Under appropriate conditions, the range of allowed energies is very narrow, leading to a...

Scientists from the Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics at Universität Hamburg have invented a new experimental method for high-contrast imaging of atomic spin structures. The study appeared in the journal Science Advances this week.

Scientists dramatically enhance the achievable resolution at free-electron lasers with a new technique, which has been published in Nature Physics. Hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses for over a decade. One of the most promising applications of XFELs is in biology, where...

A new X-ray technique can be used to produce high resolution images of nanocrystals in real time as they are growing, something that has not been done before. To this end, a team from DESY and Universität Hamburg has created three-dimensional cross-sectional images of nanostructures from two-dimensional projections taken...