News (2023)17 May 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsResearchers combine techniques to analyze glass transitionPhoto: DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00631, Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY)During the transition from the liquid to the solid glass state, a special state forms at the atomic level between a disordered liquid and a...16 May 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterFrancesca Calegari is new CUI spokespersonPhoto: DESY, Gesine BornProf. Franscesca Calegari is a new spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter". Together with Prof. Henry Chapman and...11 May 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsRole of structural symmetry revealedPhoto: Jörg Harms, MPSDAn international research team has demonstrated unambiguously that the bulk crystal Ta2NiSe5 is not an excitonic insulator, settling the debate around...11 May 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterAward ceremony for the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2022Photo: Bente Stachowske/UHH/CUIThe Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" awarded Prof. Dr. Olga Smirnova from the Max Born Institute, Berlin, and Dr. Benedetta...4 May 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsCondensate formation in a dark statePhoto: AG HemmerichIn a research work recently published on the cover of Physical Review Letters, scientists from the department of physics at Universität Hamburg showed...3 May 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterTaking Stock in the Excellence Strategy—CUIPhoto: UHH/GartenSince 2019 Universität Hamburg has been a University of Excellence. A year earlier, 4 clusters of excellence received grants. What has been...Contribution from the university's newsroom3 May 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsLaser pulses triple transition temperature for ferromagnetism in YTiO3Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSDResearchers in Germany and the U.S.A. have shown for the first time that terahertz (THz) light pulses can stabilize ferromagnetism in a crystal at...2 May 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterResearchers quench thirst for knowledge in Hamburg's bars on 11 MayPhoto: DESYAre climate negotiations just hot air? Can artificial trees generate electricity? And can artificial intelligence actually cook? On 11 May 2023 at 8...26 April 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsNew imaging technique opens a new pathPhoto: Fabian TrostAn international research team has succeeded for the first time in using X-rays for an imaging technique that exploits a particular quantum property...17 April 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsDynamics of water molecules on a titanium dioxide surfacePhoto: Authors, DESYEfficient photocatalysts for solar-driven water splitting are very important for the green hydrogen-based economy. A full understanding of...12 April 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterAngel Rubio is elected as Leopoldina memberPhoto: MPSDMPSD Director Angel Rubio has been elected as a member of Germany’s National Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina. His membership will be officially...12 April 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsIntense lasers magnetize solids within attosecondsPhoto: J. Harms, MPSDIntense laser light can induce magnetism in solids on the attosecond scale – the fastest magnetic response to date. That is the finding reached by...11 April 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterMildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2023: call for applications and nominationsPhoto: Columbia University, Collage Jana BackhausApplications and nominations are now open for the "Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2023". The aim of the program is to promote...30 March 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterPictures from the Micro WorldPhoto: Esmek, Fernandez-Cuesta/UHHColorful images from the micro world of basic research that only reveal themselves at second glance: From April 4 to 24, 2023, the Cluster of...30 March 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterFuture day for girls and boys: experiment, ask questions, find orientationPhoto: kompetenzz | lichtweiszWhat role do nanoparticles play in future technologies? What does a biochemist do? How does programming work? On Girls' and Boys' Day on 27 April...23 March 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsAnother step in the fight against Alzheimer's diseasePhoto: AG BetzelThe course of Alzheimer's dementia can be positively influenced by various drugs - but the brain disease cannot yet be stopped or cured. In the...22 March 2023|Advanced Imaging of Matter"We have to stay on it permanently"Photo: UHH/CUI, Peter GartenIt is a topic that stirs things up: For three weeks, the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" at Universität Hamburg presented the...20 March 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsImaging exotic dimersPhoto: AG HemmerichResearchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have for the first time succeeded in forming and imaging bosonic Feshbach...1 March 2023|Advanced Imaging of MatterSupport for outstanding talentsPhoto: privateAntonia Freibert has been awarded a scholarship from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation. Freibert is conducting research as a doctoral student...22 February 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsSolvent affects structure of nano-coatingsPhoto: DESY, Arno JerominThe choice of solvent used can control the specific structure of nanoparticle coatings, as has been demonstrated in a study headed by DESY NanoLab...Previous articlesMore articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with