Year: 2024

With results that would have been enough for two dissertations, Jonas Heimerl has defended his thesis with flying colors. Congratulations, Dr. Heimerl!

Once again this year, we withdrew for two and a half days to discuss our projects in depth through presentations - and to listen to three more excellent presentations by invited guests. This year's guests were Jacob Pettine from MIT, Clarisse Woodahl from Stanford University and Ron Ruimy from the T...

Our former Master's student, PhD student and postdoc Christian Heide has now been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando after further successful years as a postdoc at Stanford - congratulations on this great success! He is now looking for new team members. Her...

Our Bachelor student and chair employee Hodabalo Kondo-Feou has won the DAAD prize - congratulations! This is what FAU President Professor Hornegger wrote about it on LinkedIn: "Celebrating Excellence: Hodabalo Kondo-Feou's Remarkable Journey of Resilience and Dedication With great pleasure...

Great success for our former Master's student, PhD student and postdoc Christian Heide: very soon he will take up his first professorship, at the University of Central Florida. Congratulations and best wishes for continued successful research!

After around 35 highly successful years at FAU, Professor Dr. Jürgen Ristein will soon be taking his well-deserved retirement. To mark his farewell, the Chair organized a surprise symposium for him, which took place last Friday in beautiful summer weather in the FAU Water Hall of the Orangerie. Jürg...

Dr. Tobias Weitz has been awarded a 5,000€ 2nd prize from the Körber Foundation for his dissertation, perhaps the most visible doctoral prize in the whole of Germany. Theses are awarded for their social relevance, in Dr. Weitz's case this was the fundamental importance of his work for future light-b...

The Shoulders-Gray-Spindt (SGS) Prize is awarded in the name of the founders of the International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC) to promote young scientists in the field of vacuum nanoelectronics. We are delighted that Leon Brückner has received the endowed prize for a publication on “Cohe...

Dielectric laser accelerators have so far been operated with lasers in the near-infrared range. Using a longer wavelength should allow higher electron transmission and a higher damage threshold. In a cooperation with the university and the Fraunhofer Institute in Jena, we are demonstrating accelerat...

Our postdoc Zhexin Zhao received a highly prestigous Humboldt Research Scholarship to continue her work as a postdoc here with us -- warmest congratulations! Well deserved.

CERN Courier published an article covering the history of on-chip accelerators using silicon-based structures illuminated by lasers. These dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) promise powerful, high-energy, high-repetition-rate particle sources suitable for applications in medical facilities and qua...

With the help of a delay-line detector and microstructured electrode layouts, a resonator for electrons is realized for the first time in which up to 7 orbits could be detected. In addition to a beam splitter and a beam guide, such an electron-optical element is essential for enabling efficient inte...