Research Highlights30 May 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsBiological specimens imaged with X-rays without damagePhoto: DESY/CFELA pollen grain showing the nanofoam within or a diatom with the individual geometric structures inside clearly visible: Using high-energy X-rays from...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...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...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 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...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 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...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...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...Show all news