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2 April 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Scientists X-ray coronavirus proteins

Green ball with spikes against red background

Photo: Pete Linforth/Pixabay

Research groups worldwide are intensively searching for starting points for active substances against SARS-CoV-2, as the corona virus was named by the...

24 March 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Tiny double accelerator recycles energy

A partially transparent tube provides a view of a wave-shaped beam inside

Photo: DESY, Science Communication Lab

A team of scientists has built a miniature double particle accelerator that can recycle some of the laser energy fed into the system to boost the...

12 March 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Shaking off the correlated-electron traffic jam

Several layers of blue and grey squares. The area in the middle is overlayd by a green laser and changes its position and color to light and dark grey

Photo: Jörg Harms / MPSD

An international team of researchers from Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Great Britain has uncovered an anomalous metallic behavior in an otherwise...

26 February 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Sneaking up on tiny crystals with electron diffraction

$scheme of protein diffraction$

Photo: Robert Bücker

Understanding the structure of proteins is essential to obtain insight into their biological function. Due to their minute size and extreme fragility...

25 February 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Electrons in motion

orbitals and laser light on black background

Photo: Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg

An international team of scientists, with the participation of DESY, has succeeded in observing ultra-fast quantum interferences between electrons in...

25 February 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A step towards controlling spin-dependent petahertz electronics by material defects

green and gray lattice with colored spots

Photo: M.S. Mrudul, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

The operational speed of semiconductors in various electronic and optoelectronic devices is limited to several gigahertz (a billion oscillations per...

30 January 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Research team finds possible new approach for sleeping sickness drugs

Photo: University of Lübeck/DESY, Lars Redecke

Using ultra-bright X-ray flashes, a team of researchers has tracked down a potential target for new drugs against sleeping sickness: The scientists...

28 January 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Towards a non-carbon future

Photo: Lange group

A group of scientists led by Holger Lange from the Universität Hamburg has analyzed the different effects underlying plasmon-enhanced catalysis. The...

9 January 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights