News (2020)22 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterRegistration for the Academic Leadership programme for WomenPhoto: UHH/MIN/CUI/QUThis year’s programme and registration form for our Academic Leadership Programme for Women is out now. The event for female scientists* in their...18 September 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsIntermolecular rocking vibrations open up channels for ultrafast singlet fissionPhoto: Hong-Guang Duan, MPSDThe search for new, super-efficient materials to harvest solar energy is a major research focus around the world. Until now, silicon has been the...17 September 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsScientists propose a new technique for the investigation of quasi-particlesPhoto: UHH, AG SchmelcherThe formation and properties of polarons drastically influence the conductivity of technologically relevant materials. Examples include the organic...16 September 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsLiquid water at 170 degrees CelsiusPhoto: DESY, Britta LiebaugUsing the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were...14 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterAminoff Prize for Henry ChapmanPhoto: DESY, Gesine BornHenry Chapman, Professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY Lead Scientist, will receive the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography 2021 from the...9 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterSupport for outstanding women in sciencePhoto: L'OréalDr. Cristina Palencia Ramírez has been awarded the "For Women in Science" award by L'Oréal Germany, the German Commission for UNESCO in partnership...2 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterOnline Physics Project Days for girlsPhoto: UHH/Light&SchoolsThe physics school laboratory Light & Schools and the Physics Project Days of Universität Hamburg invite girls from the upper school level on to...1 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterMildred Dresselhaus Prize 2020 for extraordinary scientists announcedPhoto: PrivatDr. Caterina Vozzi, research director at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology (CNR-IFN) in Milan, Italy, and Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini...21 August 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterRegistration for the Women Physicists' Conference 2020Photo: DPT-TeamFemale physicists at all career levels from industry, business and research have the opportunity to exchange information about current research...12 August 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsCoupled nanoscale antennas pave the way for lightwave electronicsPhoto: Yujia YangA research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY and Universität Hamburg has succeeded for the first time in building...7 August 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsMissing link in replication process of coronaviruses identifiedPhoto: Georg Wolff / Montse BarcenaCoronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 drastically remodel infected cells by building special membrane structures that accommodate virus replication. It is...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en30 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsRecord in light-matter couplingPhoto: AG Lange, CUI / AG ReichA research cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), has realized a new concept...29 July 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterProgramming with the turtle - school laboratory offers online coursesPhoto: UHH/Light & Schools, Jan Philip DeppeThe team from Light & Schools, the physics school laboratory of Universität Hamburg and the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter"...9 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA "breath of nothing" provides a new perspective on superconductivityPhoto: Electron Studios, UHH, MoritzZero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power...8 July 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterBest Master's thesis in nanosciencePhoto: pixabayHelena Gleißner will be awarded the Jean-Marie Lehn and Klaus von Klitzing Prize 2020 for the best Master's thesis in the nanosciences program at...2 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTwisted WSe2 as a highly tunable platform for the study of exotic phenomenaPhoto: Jörg Harms/MPSDIn recent years two-dimensional quantum materials have provided a platform for the realization of novel correlated and topological phases of matter...26 June 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterExperience the "Lindau Spirit" onlinePhoto: UHH/Ohme, privatAt the "Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings" young scientists meet Nobel Prize winners. This year, two young researchers from Universität Hamburg, Dr...22 June 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA structural light switch for magnetismPhoto: Jörg Harms, MPSDMagnetic materials have been a mainstay in computing technology due to their ability to permanently store information in their magnetic state. Current...18 June 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsPlaying billiards with excitons – a milestone towards quantum simulatorsPhoto: UHH/Schmelcher, MPQ MünchenSemiconductors play an important role in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solids they are quantum many-particle systems...17 June 2020|Advanced Imaging of MatterHanding over of keys for the "Haus der Lehre - Light & Schools "Photo: UHH/CUI/SieglOn June 12, 2020, the new building "Haus der Lehre - Light & Schools" was handed over to the Department of Physics and the Cluster of Excellence "CUI...Previous articlesMore articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with