2022

Jérôme Faist, Professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zürich, is to receive a Humboldt Research Award to pursue his work at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure ... His research centers on the fluctuating fields found in a vacuum and how these could be controlled. Quantum mechanics predicts that even in the absence of any irradiation with light, vacuum is ...

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Laser plasma acceleration is a disruptive technology for a new generation of particle accelerators that will not only be very compact, and therefore economical to build, but also highly versatile. ... “Andreas is one of the world leading experts in the community of laser plasma accelerators. With his deep know-how in laser technology and his sharp focus on applications, I fully expect that ...

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Patrik Vagovic, a scientist from the SPB/SFX instrument at European XFEL and CFEL/DESY has received one of the first European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder grants. The European Commission funds ... The Megahertz-Tomoscopy project centers around imaging of matter under fast motions with velocities from several meters to several kilometers per second. Patrik Vagovic is  constructing a ...

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Tais Gorkhover has been Professor of "Experimental Physics with a focus on X-ray Physics at Free-Electron Lasers" at the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg located at CFEL since ... For the development of more environmentally friendly chemicals or novel materials, it is important to be able to take high-resolution images of processes in molecules and nanoparticles. Tais ...

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Laser pulses that briefly grab hold of floating molecules and align them precisely in space – this may sound like an original but academic party trick, however the technique which the team led ... For some time now, it has been possible, in principle, to take hold of complex molecules and align them using short laser pulses. However, to do this the laser usually has to be active all the time, ...

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Exploding a photo subject in order to take its picture? An international research at the European XFEL used this "extreme" method to take pictures of complex molecules. The scientists team ... The images are an important step towards recording molecular movies, which researchers hope to use in the future to observe details of biochemical and chemical reactions or physical changes at high ...

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When mid-infrared laser pulses hit certain complex materials, their fundamental properties can change in astonishing ways. They may become magnetic, ferroelectric or begin to carry electrical ... So far, nonlinear phononics has been thought to occur only within the small region of the crystal where the mid-infrared light pulse is present. Now researchers in Hamburg have discovered that the ...

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There are very few people in the world who take a stab at watching and manipulating nuclear transitions by exploiting the surrounding electrons and tailored lasers. DESY’s Helmholtz young ... "I am very pleased that Andrea Trabattoni's joint junior professorship will bring us closer together with Leibniz Universität Hannover in a first joint appointment," says Edgar ...

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