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18 May 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New paths for surface research

Three blue squares with different colorful clouds on gray yellow background

Photo: UHH, Marvin Reuner und Daria Gorelova

Researchers from Universität Hamburg, the European XFEL and DESY have succeeded in establishing time-resolved orbital tomography at the free-electron...
16 May 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Machine learning enables counting of magnetic skyrmions

The photo shows three gray boxes, each with a white cloud. In two clouds there are five black dots each, in the third box the dots are blurred and no longer clearly visible.

Photo: UHH, Tim Matthies

Researchers from the Department of Physics have succeeded in training artificial neural networks to reconstruct the skyrmion number in confined...
17 March 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Biomolecular building blocks gripped by laser

On the left is the lattice-like structure of the biomolecule in two orientations, next to it are circles, inside of which are upright oval structures again with circles.

Photo: DESY, J. Küpper/C. Lopez Gonzalez

Laser pulses that briefly grab hold of floating molecules and align them precisely in space – this may sound like an original but academic party...
10 March 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A remote control for functional materials

Red and blue wave bands hover over gray pyramids with red ball on the ends and purple balls on the top

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

When mid-infrared laser pulses hit certain complex materials, their fundamental properties can change in astonishing ways. They may become magnetic...
7 March 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Topological bands by design

The illustration shows single orange balls and a spiral on which the same balls are arranged, at each end a ball shines blue

Photo: UHH/MIN/Schneider

Linear magnetic chains on the surface of an elemental superconductor can host topologically non-trivial bands in their bulk and, as a result, the...
22 February 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Molecule snapshot by explosion

Illustration of the momentum if individual atoms in bright circles

Photo: European XFEL, Rebecca Boll/Till Jahnke

Exploding a photo subject in order to take its picture? An international research team at the world's largest X-ray laser, the European XFEL, used...
9 February 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Lightweight, stable, and functional - 3D printing of a nanoparticle-based aerogel

On the left is a sponge-like structure on the flower of an orchid, on the right a weight on such a structure.

Photo: Matthias Rebber

A research team from Universität Hamburg and DESY has developed a new method to 3D print colloidal nanomaterials in the form of a so-called aerogel...
25 January 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Cosmic chemistry in the lab

Illustration of molecules on a dark background covered with stars

Photo: DESY, Bastian Manschwetus (background NASA/Hubble)

An international team of scientists has recreated some of the harsh environment of interstellar space in the lab and analyzed the reaction of...
13 January 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Watching the charge move in photoexcited molecules

Illustration in front of the experimental setup

Photo: Rolf Treusch (DESY), David Picconi und Markus Gühr (UP)

An international research team led by Markus Gühr’s group at the University of Potsdam performed laser experiments at DESY's free-electron laser FLASH...
13 January 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A quantum inspired perspective on turbulence

Four simulations of the turbulent collapse of a vortex visualized at five different points in time (time increases from left-to-right).

Photo: Nikita Gourianov

An international team of scientists describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. The work by researchers from the...
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