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15 June 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

White Paper of the Centre for Molecular Water Science published

Illustration of water molecules

Photo: CMWS

More than 45 institutions from Europe and across the globe have joined in an initiative for a new research centre at DESY, unveiling the many secrets...
8 June 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Team hunts down elusive phonoriton with light trapped in a cavity

Illustration of the phonoriton, a three-way hybrid particle made up of excitons, phonons and photons.

Photo: U. de Giovannini / S. Latini / J. Harms, MPSD

Scientists at the MPSD and the MIT have come up with a prediction that trapped light can be used to create a new kind of particle in a solid...
20 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A perfect gap in Majorana’s world

The image show the gap in the Manganese chain.

Photo: UHH/MIN/Schneider

Researchers from the Department of Physics and the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” have revealed how electronic bands form...
20 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Ultrafast lasers can protect a DNA building block from light-induced dissociation

Artist´s impression of the ultrafast stabilisation of adenine against dissociation

Photo: U. De Giovannini, MPSD

An international research team led by Francesca Calegari, who is a leading scientist at DESY and a Professor at Universität Hamburg, has demonstrated...
18 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New approach to calculate electron traffic jam in transition metal dichalcogenide

Three figures showing the geometry of 1T-TaS2 and the computed band structures.

Photo: Dongbin Shin, MPSD

Though they both consist only of H2O molecules, water and ice exhibit apparently distinct characters: The former is solid and the latter is the very...
21 April 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Lighting it up: Fast material manipulation by laser

Illustration of the burst of light

Photo: Samuel Beaulieu

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have found out that...
21 April 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New theory of one-dimensional anyons on an optical lattice

Quantum physics illustration of exploding flashes

Photo: pixabay

Physicists at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and Universität Hamburg were able to demonstrate theoretical and experimentally accessible...
15 April 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Nanoantennas pave the way to compact petahertz oscilloscopes

Nanoantennas on a glas chip

Photo: N. Abedzadeh, MIT

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA), DESY, the University of Hamburg and the University of...
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...
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