Research Highlights (2023)2 October 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsLasers deflected using airPhoto: Science Communication Lab for DESYUsing a novel method, beams of laser light can be deflected using air alone. An invisible grating made only of air is not only immune to damage from...28 September 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsIntense lasers shine new light on the electron dynamics of liquidsPhoto: Joerg M. Harms / MPSDThe behavior of electrons in liquids determines a vast range of chemical processes, and thus essential processes in organisms and the world as a...17 August 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsPairing of electrons in artificial atoms discoveredPhoto: Lucas SchneiderResearchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg observed a quantum state that was theoretically predicted more than 50 years ago by...31 July 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsAbsence of universal topological signatures in high harmonic generationPhoto: J.M. Harms/MPSDTopology plays an enormous role in modern condensed matter physics and beyond. It describes how solid materials can combine two very different and...5 July 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsDisplaced electrons drive nanoparticle oscillationsPhoto: UHH/H. LangePhotocatalysis, sensors, solar cells: Plasmons promise a variety of applications if the processes triggered by optical excitation in the nanoparticles...28 June 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsNew experiment reveals how ultrafast conversion of urea progressesPhoto: DESY, Ludger InhesterUsing a special X-ray source, a research team has succeeded in unraveling the first, extremely fast steps of the light-induced urea conversion. With...8 June 2023|Advanced Imaging HighlightsX-rays visualize how one of nature’s strongest bonds breaksPhoto: Raphael JayThe use of short flashes of X-ray light brings scientists one big step closer toward developing better catalysts to transform the greenhouse gas...30 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...Previous articlesMore articles
