Year: 2019

Christian Heide has received the outstanding poster award at Synthetic Carbon Allotropes in Erlangen, which took place from september 29th to october 2nd. The poster describes our new data on attosecond-fast charge transfer from a two-dimensional material (here graphene) to a bulk material (here Sil...

Recently, extremely fast charge dynamics have been revealed in photoemission from atoms or metals to vacuum, and inside of individual molecules, with charge transfer times in the 100-attosecond time range. In contrast, in purely solid state-based interfaces, the fastest charge transfer time reported...

The Collaborative Research Centre 953 "Synthetic Carbon Allotropes" may enter the third and final round, as the DFG has just decided. We are very much looking forward to further highly interesting years with our colleagues from chemistry, physics and materials science.

Our Master student Leon Brückner was selected to take part in the International School and Symposium on Nanoscale Transport and phoTonics (ISNTT) 2019, which takes place this November in Atsugi, Japan. Thanks to a generous scholarship by the Japanese telecommunications company NTT he is able to fly ...

If you are interested in a master's degree or a doctorate in photonics, apply now or by 15 December: https://www.maxplanckschools.de/23572/application We are also part of the Max Planck School for Photonics, but do currently not offer any topic there because two of our team members are already...

By carefully controlling the interaction between ultrashort laser pulses and free electrons, we show in this letter that we can create ultrashort electron packets of a duration of just 300 attoseconds. Even for physicists, 300 attosecond is an extremely short time span: it equals the time it takes l...

Dr. Peyman Yousefi won the SEM competition at Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology with a scanning electron micrograph of structure for laser-driven electron acceleration on a chip. The competition is based on intricacy, function and sheer beauty of the images. Congratulations!

As part of the extension of the Max Planck-University of Ottawa Center for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, Professor Peter Hommelhoff has been accepted as a member of the Center. Especially strong field physics in solids is an ideal starting point for joint research approaches. We are looking forward...

Together with the group of Prof. Philip Russel (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light), we have demonstrated the generation of ultrashort 4.4 fs laser pulses. These short laser pulses originate from a supercontinuum generated in a gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. We will use th...

Diamond is a highly interesting material for electron sources because it is not only mechanically robust, chemically inert and thermally conductive, but also exhibits negative electron affinity if the surface is saturated with hydrogen. Due to this special property, diamond has a low work function a...

Peyman Yousefi has successfully defended his PhD dissertation -- congratulations, Dr. Yousefi!

Our former doctoral student and postdoc Dr. Michael Krüger received one of the coveted research grants of the European Research Council (ERC) and was recently appointed assistant professor at the Technion in Haifa, the Technical University of Israel - two outstanding successes. With the 1.69 mill...