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CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter
Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

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Research Highlights (2021)

24 November 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New microscopy technique for quantum simulation

Illustration of a magnifying glass magnifying a hexagonal lattice structure

Photo: UHH/Felix Herbort

Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have developed a new technique for quantum gas microscopy that now allows...
3 November 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Quantum Physics in Proteins

Illustration eines Quantenwellenpakets in unmittelbarer Nähe einer konischen Durchschneidung zweier Quantenzustände.

Photo: DESY, Niels Breckwoldt

A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of...
15 October 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Review on ultrafast control of quantum materials

A red cloud hits a grid clamped between two contacts.

Photo: MPSD

A review involving a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), just published as a colloquium...
11 October 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Simplified way to predict quantum light-matter interactions

A stylized Berlin Wall made of red stones, in front of it a small copy in blue. Both cast equally large gray shadows on the wall.

Photo: Jörg Harms

When light interacts with matter, for example when a laser beam hits a two-dimensional material like graphene, it can substantially change the...
27 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Twisted layers of MoS2 enable the engineering of novel states of matter

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Photo: Martin Claassen

A team of researchers from Germany, China and the United States has discovered that two twisted layers of MoS2 can be used to control kinetic energy...
15 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in materials

A bi-chromatic intense laser field of red and blue spirals irradiated onto a solid in the form of a lattice excites electrons and generates transverse photocurrents shown as green lines.

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

Theoreticians at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) predict that a unique laser source could produce highly...
14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Filming antibiotic resistance in Slow-Motion

Der im Experiment verwendete Detektor

Photo: European XFEL

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL an international team of researchers, including scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg, has successfully...
14 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Magnetic field turns handed superconductor into liquid crystal-like nematic state

On the left is a blossom-like structure, on the right a Bloch sphere which looks like a ball

Photo: Tao Yu, MPSD Hamburg

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg and RWTH Aachen University have suggested a...
23 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Structure of membrane protein opens up possibilities for antibiotics

Membrane protein FoxB of the hospital pathogen P. aeruginosa as spirals in different colors.

Photo: MIN/UHH/Tidow

A research team from the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg has studied the membrane protein FoxB in the hospital germ "Pseudomonas...
14 August 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Table-top electron camera catches ultrafast dynamics of matter

The system fits on a lab table. It is adjusted with the help of an optical laser which is visible as a green line.

Photo: DESY, Timm Rohwer

Scientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have built a compact electron camera that can capture the inner, ultrafast dynamics of matter. The system...