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26 January 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Electron refrigerator: Ultrafast cooling mechanism discovered in novel plasma

Visualization of an ultracold 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

Illustration

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

Artistic depiction of the experiment.

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

View into a reaction chamber

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...
10 December 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Changes in molecules interacting with quantum light

Illustration of a quantum vakuum field

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...
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