Aktuelles (2020)

17 December 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Two scientists from the MIN faculty appointed Humboldt Scouts

Photo: gemeinfrei

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert from the Department of Mathematics and Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger from the Department of Physics and the Cluster of...

10 December 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Changes in molecules interacting with quantum light

Photo: Enrico Ronca, Jörg Harms / MPSD

A team of researchers from Italy, Norway, and Germany has demonstrated that the properties of molecules undergo significant changes when interacting...

10 December 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Femtochip: paving the way to innovative lasers

A coin placed on the laser gives an impression of the size

Photo: CFEL / Neetesh Singh

Femtosecond lasers have become indispensable in research. They can be used to study ultra-fast processes in materials and molecules and have great...

25 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

FLASH reveals ultrafast dynamics of photocatalysis

The illustration shows that between 1.2 and 2.8 picoseconds after triggering, the carbon monoxide oxidised to carbon dioxide (picture: DESY Nanolab).

Photo: DESY Nanolab

An international team of scientists have studied, for the first time, the light induced oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide (CO2) on...

24 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Cluster implements focused promotion of young talent

Dr. Fank Schlawin, Dr. Aaran Kelly, Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

Photo: private

Three further researchers will complete the group of Young Investigator Group Leaders at the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter"...

20 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Research team at Universität Hamburg works on new COVID-19 rapid test

A plastic element with micro- and nano-channels, which scientists use to detect biomolecules such as DNA.

Photo: UHH/Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

An interdisciplinary research team from Universität Hamburg and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron wants to develop a new test for the screening of...

18 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Again: Highly Cited Researchers

The scientists Henry Chapman und Wolfgang Parak

Photo: DESY, privat

Two scientists from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg have made it onto Clarivate's "Highly Cited Researchers" list published today...

17 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Time for a new state of matter in high-temperature superconductors

Photo: Mathey group

Scientists at Universität Hamburg open up a new direction of material design. The research group led by Prof. Ludwig Mathey from the Institute of...

17 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A single molecular switch reveals atomic-scale light dynamics

llustration of the atomic arrangement to measure the light dynamics on the nanoscale

Photo: Franco Bonafé, MPSD

Since the 17th century, researchers have explored tiny objects in their most fundamental detail using light and optical microscopes. However, because...

11 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Valery Rubakov awarded with the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020

Photo: Valery Rubakov

The Russian Valery Rubakov received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020, endowed with 137,036 euros. Rubakov is chief researcher at the...

Contribution from the news channel MIN-en

11 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Photons in a can: a new way to design materials

The illustration shows what happens when light is confined between mirrors.

Photo: Jörg Harms / MPSD

Crystal symmetry is one of the decisive physical attributes that determines the properties of a material. In particular, the behaviour of an electron...

10 November 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Molecular film among the Guinness World Records

Illustration of the steps of molecular rotation

Photo: DESY, Evangelos Karamatskos

Prof. Jochen Küpper's team made it into the Guinness World Records with the film of a molecular rotation: it is the first time that ultra-fast...

10 November 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Supermicroscope for Protein Crystals

Photo: Cheng, Q., Chung, H., Schubert, R. et al., Commun Biol

A novel kind of microscope is able to detect tiny protein crystals, which are beyond the imaging power of even modern light microscopes. The...

29 October 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Start of the dynaMENT round 2020

Flip chart with statements about mentoring

Photo: dynaMENT

The new round of the dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences has started. 15 female doctoral students will be intensively supported in the...

28 October 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

DESY Innovation Factory – Kick-off for integrated technology and start-up centre

Photo: photomontage, DESY/R. Schaaf, Atelier Disko

Science as a driver for innovation: DESY is building a technology and start-up centre in the heart of the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld site...

27 October 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Science Senator Katharina Fegebank takes over patronage for the Women Physicists' Conference 2020

Photo: UHH

Women physicists of all career levels from research, industry, and business will meet in virtual space from 5 to 7 November 2020. Katharina Fegebank...

20 October 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Annual Meeting: Two outstanding researchers honored with Mildred Dresselhaus Prize

Announcement of the ceremony including a picture of the young Mildred Dresselhaus

Photo: CUI

Dr. Caterina Vozzi and Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini have been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2020 at the annual meeting of the Cluster of...

13 October 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Awarded as “Trusted Reviewer”

Photo: DESY, Lars Berg

Dr. Philipp Wessels-Staarmann from the Center for Optical Quantum Technologies at Universität Hamburg has been appointed “Trusted Reviewer” of the...

25 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Individual support for outstanding young researchers

Photo: CUI, v.l. privat; UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz; Cleo Moison; privat

Four Young Investigator Group Leaders have started their research at the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" in the past weeks...

24 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

ERC Starting Grant: Quantum technology project begins

Photo: Cleo Moisan

Supporting outstanding young scientists with innovative projects in basic research - that is the goal of the so-called Starting Grants of the European...

22 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Registration for the Academic Leadership programme for Women

Photo: UHH/MIN/CUI/QU

This year’s programme and registration form for our Academic Leadership Programme for Women is out now. The event for female scientists* in their...

18 September 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Intermolecular rocking vibrations open up channels for ultrafast singlet fission

The illustration shows how quantum vibrational coherences drive ultrafast singlet fission.

Photo: Hong-Guang Duan, MPSD

The search for new, super-efficient materials to harvest solar energy is a major research focus around the world. Until now, silicon has been the...

17 September 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Scientists propose a new technique for the investigation of quasi-particles

The top row figures provide a schematic description of the proposed pump-probe spectroscopy scheme. The lower left figure demonstrates a typical spectrum for small dark times, where sharp peaks at a positive frequency shift emerge, capturing the pres

Photo: UHH, AG Schmelcher

The formation and properties of polarons drastically influence the conductivity of technologically relevant materials. Examples include the organic...

16 September 2020|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Liquid water at 170 degrees Celsius

$The X-ray flashes of the European XFEL (violet) do not only heat the water (red and white molecules), but also produce a diffraction pattern of the sample (background) from which the state of the water can be determined after each flash. This gives a$

Photo: DESY, Britta Liebaug

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were...

14 September 2020|Advanced Imaging of Matter