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22 September 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Terahertz light from superconducting stripes

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Photo: MPSD/Harms

MPSD scientists discover anomalous emission of terahertz radiation from copper oxides in which superconductivity coexists with charge-stripe order.
29 August 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Rare insights into growing nanoparticles

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How exactly do nanoparticles form in solution? Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg and DESY have now been able to...
18 August 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Researchers discover natural compounds against coronavirus

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Photo: UHH/Gevorgyan

Scientists at Universität Hamburg and DESY have identified three compounds that are promising candidates for drug development against coronavirus. All...
15 August 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

This is what the Corona Virus really looks like

A ball with spikes

Photo: UHH/Thorn

At the start of the Corona pandemic, there was little firm data on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with representations based on low-resolution electron...
26 July 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Seamless shift from red to blue: new light sources based on quantum dots

Above is a ball without shell, with one shell and with two shells. Below is the photo of an orange-colored shell.

Photo: Hannes Van Avermaet

Semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots are outstanding luminescent materials. An international research team led by Prof. Zeger Hens of Ghent...
12 July 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

When light and electrons spin together

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Photo: Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean / Jörg Harms, MPSD

Theoreticians at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have demonstrated how the coupling between...
5 July 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

High harmonics illuminate the movement of atoms and electrons

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Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

Laser light can radically change the properties of solid materials, making them superconducting or magnetic within millionths of a billionth of a...
1 July 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Characterizing the Materials for Next-Generation Quantum Computers with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

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Researchers at the Department of Physics and the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” of Universität Hamburg and the University of...
10 June 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Researchers observe continuous time crystal

View through a tube on spirals on the right and left, two bubbles are stuck in between at the top and bottom, a yellow light shines in the middle.

Photo: AG Hemmerich

Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that...
2 June 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Electronic quantum dance in molecules

On the left are sticks with blue lobes in front of a white flah, on the right sticks with blue and red lobes in front of a wihite flash.

Photo: DESY, David Schwickert

An international research team led by DESY scientist Tim Laarmann, who is a researcher in the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter"...
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