Month: November 2018

On the 18th of October, our chair used the golden October weather to explore the numerous caves and hills on the southern edge of Franconian Switzerland around Neukirchen near Sulzbach-Rosenberg. The highlight of our hike was a guided tour through the 16 meter deep Easter Cave. The dripstone cave im...

How fast can electrons be controlled in a conductive material? This is a fundamental question that could boost up the speed of modern electronics. It determines how fast data and signals and thus information can be transmitted. In our article, which recently appeared in Physical Review Letters, we g...

Our chair and FAU Erlangen are founding members of the Max Planck Graduate School of Photonics. Apply here and until December 15th, if you are interested in a master's degree or doctoral training at one of the world's leading working groups in the broad field of photonics.

Under the leadership of our theory partners at TU Darmstadt (working group of Prof. Dr. Boine-Frankenheim), a contribution to Phys. Rev. Lett. has just been published. We show theoretically that electrons can be accelerated with the help of nanophotonic structures and laser pulses without losing a l...