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CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter

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Research Highlights

2 April 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Researchers identify promising candidates for COVID drugs

Illustration of the virus

Photo: DESY/SciComLab

An international team of researchers, which on behalf of Universität Hamburg is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel and Prof. Dr. Arwen...

17 March 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Seeing protein crystals in a different light

Illustration of light sources

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

An international team of researchers among others from the Max Planck institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, the University of...

10 March 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Perspectives of synchrotron radiation in biology

Illustration of X-ray-based analytics

Photo: American Chemical Society

What could be done with X-rays, in particular synchrotron radiation, for biologically motivated experiments? What are the opportunities and...

10 February 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Quantum beats for zeptosecond timing

View of the experiment

Photo: L. Bocklage/DESY

Quantum systems will be crucial to future technologies. However, in order to use such systems in practical applications, it is necessary to control...

9 February 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Switching nanolight on and off

Illustration of an optically excited gas

Photo: Ella Maru Studio

An international research team involving the Theory department of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter has developed a...

9 February 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Long live superconductivity! Short flashes of light with sustaining impact

Illustration of superconductivity

Photo: Jörg Harms / MPSD

Superconductivity – the ability of a material to transmit an electric current without loss – is a quantum effect that, despite years of research, is...

2 February 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Twisted van der Waals materials as a new platform to realize exotic matter

Visualisierung verdrehter Van der Waals-Materialien.

Photo: Jörg Harms / MPSD

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, the RWTH Aachen University and the Flatiron Institute, Columbia...

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

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...