2024

Mariana Rossi, head of a Lise-Meitner Excellence group in MPSD located at CFEL, has been awarded a ... Nuclear motion lies at the heart of chemical reactions and charge transport in molecular materials. Take the example of water splitting: An excitation of specific vibrational motions coupled to the ...

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On November 25, CFEL employees showed their colors in a stand against violence against women. One in three women experience violence in their lifetimes. The most unsafe place should be the place of ...      

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MPSD and CFEL Director Angel Rubio along with an elite team of world-renowned scientists— Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv ... An ERC Synergy Grant is one of the most prestigious and competitive awards given by the European Research Council (ERC) and is evaluated on the sole ...

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An international team of scientists lead by CFEL researchers has used extremely short X-ray flashes to understand the first steps in the light-induced breaking of disulfide bridges - the natural ... An international research team led by the University of Hamburg in collaboration with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (

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The Attosecond Science group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) has developed a novel light source capable of producing extremely short pulses for the investigation of UV-induced ... Ultraviolet (UV) radiation penetrating our atmosphere triggers many photochemical and photobiological process in molecules, such as DNA damage. However, the absence of extremely short UV pulses has ...

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Philip Moll, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at CFEL in Hamburg, Germany, has been elected a Fellow of ... "I am truly moved by the recognition of my department’s work in pushing the size and scale boundaries of quantum materials,” says Philip Moll. “This is just the beginning of an ...

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The importance of disorder in physics is only matched by the difficulty to study it. For example, the remarkable properties of high-temperature superconductors are greatly affected by variations in ... Superconductivity, a quantum phenomenon that allows for electrical current to flow without resistance, is among the most important phenomena in condensed matter physics due to its transformative ...

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Chunyu Guo, group leader in the Department for Microstructured Quantum Matter at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at ... The atomic structure of Kagome materials resembles the pattern of the Japanese basket weaving method which they are named after. A non-trivial electronic order may occur upon this lattice – a ...

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Antibiotic resistance is a major and particularly in recent years a growing challenge in medicine. Scientists around the world are searching for new and efficient compounds to treat bacterial ... Among antibiotics, beta-lactams are the classics. Penicillin, the first commercially produced antibiotic, and the related derivatives from penicillin belong to this class of pharmaceuticals. At the ...

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DESY and CFEL scientist Andrea Trabattoni has accepted an appointment as Associate Professor in ... In his research, Trabattoni investigates the photo-induced electron dynamics in matter, with particular emphasis on atoms, molecules, and nanosystems. During his doctorate in physics at Politecnico ...

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For decades, scientists have been studying a group of unusual materials called multiferroics that could be useful for a range of applications including computer memory, chemical sensors and quantum ... “Unveiling these effects at the scale of atomically thin nickel iodide flakes was a formidable challenge,” said Frank Gao, a postdoctoral fellow in physics at

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Superconductivity is a fascinating phenomenon, which allows a material to sustain an electrical current without any loss. This collective quantum behavior of matter only appears in certain conductors ... Besides being capable of transporting electrical currents without loss, superconductors are also known to expel magnetic fields from their interior. This phenomenon, known in equilibrium conditions ...

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Andrea Cavalleri, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at CFEL in Hamburg, Germany, is to be honored with the 2024 EPS Europhysics Prize by ... At the MPSD, Andrea Cavalleri leads the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department. In the past two decades, he has pursued the development of new techniques to coherently control quantum materials with ...

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A new experimental approach provides the long-awaited tools to understand the role of electrons in the molecular chiral reactivity and offers a way to control physical and chemical properties that ...   Molecular chirality is of paramount importance in nature: two molecules that are mirror images of each other and that cannot be superimposed form a pair of enantiomers, each of which is ...

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Robin Santra, CFEL Director, Lead Scientist at DESY, professor of physics at Universität Hamburg and expert in ultrafast processes in intense radiation fields, has received one of the highest ... Robin Santra, who heads the theory group at CFEL, investigates how to better understand microscopic processes in the interaction of X-rays with matter in order to further improve the use of modern ...

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Angel Rubio, director of the Theory Department and managing director of the MPSD at CFEL, has been awarded the prestigious Spanish National Research Prize for his work on computational solid-state ... He receives the Premio Nacional de Investigación Blas Cabrera for his achievements in predicting new properties of nanoscale materials and non-equilibrium phases of matter. The King ...

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Beata Ziaja-Motyka, group leader at CFEL and professor at the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ-PAN) in Krakow, received the prestigious ... The award ceremony took place at the annual Polish Science Gala on 18 February 2024, where Ziaja-Motyka was honored for her groundbreaking scientific achievements in recent years. The award ...

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What does it take to build a scientific career? What skills do I need beyond scientific excellence? To mark the tenth anniversary of the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program, the Cluster ... 14 award winners are expected to attend the anniversary celebration. They will present their research and speak on career topics. “It was an honor to get the Mildred Dresselhaus Award; she ...

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Mid-infrared and terahertz frequency laser pulses are powerful tools to manipulate the properties of quantum materials through tailored modifications of their crystal structure. Light-induced ... Ferroelectric materials are characterized by the spontaneous parallel alignment of electric dipoles, leading to a macroscopic polarization that can point in two opposite directions. The pointing ...

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