Research Highlights (2020)12 August 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsCoupled nanoscale antennas pave the way for lightwave electronicsPhoto: Yujia YangA research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY and Universität Hamburg has succeeded for the first time in building...7 August 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsMissing link in replication process of coronaviruses identifiedPhoto: Georg Wolff / Montse BarcenaCoronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 drastically remodel infected cells by building special membrane structures that accommodate virus replication. It is...Contribution from the news channel MIN-en30 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsRecord in light-matter couplingPhoto: AG Lange, CUI / AG ReichA research cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), has realized a new concept...9 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA "breath of nothing" provides a new perspective on superconductivityPhoto: Electron Studios, UHH, MoritzZero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power...2 July 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTwisted WSe2 as a highly tunable platform for the study of exotic phenomenaPhoto: Jörg Harms/MPSDIn recent years two-dimensional quantum materials have provided a platform for the realization of novel correlated and topological phases of matter...22 June 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA structural light switch for magnetismPhoto: Jörg Harms, MPSDMagnetic materials have been a mainstay in computing technology due to their ability to permanently store information in their magnetic state. Current...18 June 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsPlaying billiards with excitons – a milestone towards quantum simulatorsPhoto: UHH/Schmelcher, MPQ MünchenSemiconductors play an important role in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solids they are quantum many-particle systems...28 May 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTwo colour technique reveals how X-ray lasers damage biomoleculesPhoto: Nass, Gorel, Abdullah et al., „Nature Communications“, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15610-4, CC BY 4.0X-ray lasers can reveal the spatial structures of biomolecules that are hard to come by with other methods. However, the intense X-ray flashes...26 May 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsAlgorithms and gold particles boost molecular diffractionPhoto: Kartik AyyerX-ray single particle imaging (SPI) is a technique where the very bright X-ray pulses produced by XFEs are used to image single particles. When the...21 May 2020|Advanced Imaging HighlightsElectrons’ ballet in real timePhoto: DESY, Andrea TrabattoniImaging the structure of a molecule and capturing its dynamics during a chemical reaction with atomic resolution and in real time is one of the holy...Previous articlesMore articles
