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15 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in materials

A bi-chromatic intense laser field of red and blue spirals irradiated onto a solid in the form of a lattice excites electrons and generates transverse photocurrents shown as green lines.

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

Theoreticians at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) predict that a unique laser source could produce highly...
14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Filming antibiotic resistance in Slow-Motion

Der im Experiment verwendete Detektor

Photo: European XFEL

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL an international team of researchers, including scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg, has successfully...
14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Magnetic field turns handed superconductor into liquid crystal-like nematic state

On the left is a blossom-like structure, on the right a Bloch sphere which looks like a ball

Photo: Tao Yu, MPSD Hamburg

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg and RWTH Aachen University have suggested a...
23 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Structure of membrane protein opens up possibilities for antibiotics

Membrane protein FoxB of the hospital pathogen P. aeruginosa as spirals in different colors.

Photo: MIN/UHH/Tidow

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg has studied the membrane protein FoxB in the hospital germ "Pseudomonas...
14 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Table-top electron camera catches ultrafast dynamics of matter

The system fits on a lab table. It is adjusted with the help of an optical laser which is visible as a green line.

Photo: DESY, Timm Rohwer

Scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have built a compact electron camera that can capture the inner, ultrafast dynamics of matter. The system...
13 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Overview of Floquet engineering of quantum gases

Illustration of the modification of the properties of a lattice via periodic shaking as example for Floquet engineering.

Photo: UHH/Weitenberg, Simonet

How can we control a system and induce new properties at will? One important technique is periodic driving of the system, also known as Floquet...
12 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Ultracold atoms spontaneously set into superfluid rotation

Illustration of the rotating order: whirls are indicated by circles with arrows illustrating the sense of spinning. Colours illustrate the local phase of the order parameter

Photo: AG Hemmerich

Ultracold bosonic atoms filled into the second Bloch band of a hexagonal optical lattice made of three interfering laser beams can form intriguing...
5 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Astonishing diversity: Semiconductor nanoparticles form numerous structures

The microscopic picture shows that the nanoparticles initially arrange themselves into a layer with hexagonal symmetry.

Photo: UHH, Stefan Werner

The structure adopted by lead sulphide nanoparticles changes surprisingly often as they assemble to form ordered superlattices. This is revealed by an...
28 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Trapped photons make strontium titanate ferroelectric

Illustration of a crystal embedded in an optical cavity

Photo: S. Latini / U. de Giovannini

Photons trapped in a cavity can cause a crystal known as strontium titanate (SrTiO3) to become ferroelectric, according to a new study by the MPSD’s...
20 July 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

X-ray view of self-organisation nanostructures

Die Illustration zeigt, wie man alle Schritte vom Ausgangsstoff bis zu den fertig assemblierten Nanostrukturen entschlüsseln kann, wenn man Röntgenabsorption und Röntgenstreuung kombiniert.

Photo: Nature Communications, Grote/Zito/Frank et al. [Source see below] CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

For many applications, materials can be made a great deal more efficient by giving them a specific nanoscale structure. Materials that organise...
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