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26 January 2021|Internal

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Das Hauptgebäude der Universtität Hamburg.

Photo: UHH/Schell

In 2021, the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect processes at Universität Hamburg, whether digital studies, travel abroad, or working from home...

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26 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Electron refrigerator: Ultrafast cooling mechanism discovered in novel plasma

Photo: Mario Großmann

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” have achieved a breakthrough: They created a completely new type of...

22 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A new natural platform for realizing flat-band quantum phenomena and topological states

Photo: Carmen Rubio-Verdú

Electrons in solids can have only certain energies, called bands. In recent years, it was shown experimentally that the range of energies allowed for...

21 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New method for atomic-scale mapping of magnetic nanostructures

STM tip and rendered view of a scanning tunneling microscopy image

Photo: UHH, Lucas Schneider

Scientists from the Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics at Universität Hamburg have invented a new experimental method for...

18 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Clocking the movement of electrons inside an atom

Photo: Daniel Haynes / Jörg Harms

Scientists dramatically enhance the achievable resolution at free-electron lasers with a new technique, which has been published in Nature Physics...

15 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Nanomaterials from a 3D X-ray perspective

Photo: DESY/Seyrich

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...

14 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

'Moiré metrology' - a new tool to map the interaction between atomically thin layers

Illustration of the "Moiré-Metrology" with STM topography and modelling

Photo: Dorri Halbertal

When two atomically thin layers of a material are stacked and twisted slightly on top of one another, they can develop radically different properties...

13 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Kicking atoms induces transparency

Artistic impression of vibrationally-induced transparency

Photo: © University of Trieste / INSRL

All photo-electronic devices work on the basis that the materials inside them absorb, transmit and reflect light. Understanding the photo properties...

5 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A clear path to better insights into biomolecules

$Illustration of the 3D diffraction pattern of octahedral nanoparticles$

Photo: Kartik Ayyer / Jörg Harms

An international team of scientists, led by Kartik Ayyer from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter has obtained some of...

17 December 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Two scientists from the MIN faculty appointed Humboldt Scouts

Photo: gemeinfrei

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert from the Department of Mathematics and Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger from the Department of Physics and the Cluster of...

10 December 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Femtochip: paving the way to innovative lasers

A coin placed on the laser gives an impression of the size

Photo: CFEL / Neetesh Singh

Femtosecond lasers have become indispensable in research. They can be used to study ultra-fast processes in materials and molecules and have great...

10 December 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Changes in molecules interacting with quantum light

Photo: Enrico Ronca, Jörg Harms / MPSD

A team of researchers from Italy, Norway, and Germany has demonstrated that the properties of molecules undergo significant changes when interacting...

25 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

FLASH reveals ultrafast dynamics of photocatalysis

The illustration shows that between 1.2 and 2.8 picoseconds after triggering, the carbon monoxide oxidised to carbon dioxide (picture: DESY Nanolab).

Photo: DESY Nanolab

An international team of scientists have studied, for the first time, the light induced oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide (CO2) on...

24 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Cluster implements focused promotion of young talent

Dr. Fank Schlawin, Dr. Aaran Kelly, Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

Photo: private

Three further researchers will complete the group of Young Investigator Group Leaders at the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter"...

20 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Research team at Universität Hamburg works on new COVID-19 rapid test

A plastic element with micro- and nano-channels, which scientists use to detect biomolecules such as DNA.

Photo: UHH/Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

An interdisciplinary research team from Universität Hamburg and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron wants to develop a new test for the screening of...

18 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Again: Highly Cited Researchers

The scientists Henry Chapman und Wolfgang Parak

Photo: DESY, privat

Two scientists from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg have made it onto Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researchers" list published today...

17 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A single molecular switch reveals atomic-scale light dynamics

llustration of the atomic arrangement to measure the light dynamics on the nanoscale

Photo: Franco Bonafé, MPSD

Since the 17th century, researchers have explored tiny objects in their most fundamental detail using light and optical microscopes. However, because...

17 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Time for a new state of matter in high-temperature superconductors

Photo: Mathey group

Scientists at Universität Hamburg open up a new direction of material design. The research group led by Prof. Ludwig Mathey from the Institute of...

11 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Valery Rubakov awarded with the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020

Photo: Valery Rubakov

The Russian Valery Rubakov received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020, endowed with 137,036 euros. Rubakov is chief researcher at the...

Contribution from the news channel MIN-en

11 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Photons in a can: a new way to design materials

The illustration shows what happens when light is confined between mirrors.

Photo: Jörg Harms / MPSD

Crystal symmetry is one of the decisive physical attributes that determines the properties of a material. In particular, the behaviour of an electron...

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