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Another highly interesting ACHIP collaboration meeting is behind us - this time in Stanford and with the hottest results from there and from Erlangen. Was this really the last meeting? Unfortunately, after more than seven years of generous support, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation cannot contin...

For more than ten years, we and other research groups worldwide have been working on strong-field physics on solids - which until now could only ever be observed on nanometre-sharp needle tips. In terms of the driving optical wavelength, these tips are zero-dimensional objects. We wondered if we cou...

After several Corona-related years without a public part, Philip Dienstbier was able to defend his dissertation this time - for the first time with us again - with an audience. So, finally, not only the three examiners were able to follow another outstanding defense lecture - congratulations, Dr. Di...

The Falling Walls Science Summit takes place every year around 9 November, the day then the Berlin Wall came down in 1989,  and discusses breakthroughs of all kinds - in Berlin. This year, one hour was reserved for the particle accelerator on the nanophotonic chip: Here, Dr Marija Vranic discusses w...

Recorded in the summer, broadcast on BR Alpha in October -- and only now the link is here, but research is not so fast that the content of this Campus Talk is already outdated. Without slides, without pictures and with words alone, the speakers are allowed to present their research in 13 minutes. Pr...

A highly interesting and in every respect entertaining three days at Hirschberg Castle are behind us. A series of lectures by members of the chair and two by our research partners around Dr. Martin Kozák from Prague formed the scientific framework; the castle cellar was the gathering point in the ev...

Guiding, splitting and even storing electrons with the help of novel chips, plus investigations into Smith-Purcell radiation - Michael Seidling has certainly earned his doctorate with this. Congratulations!

At the EuroNAAc4 Conferece on the beautiful island of Elba, our PhD student Stefanie Kraus received the prize for the best poster -- her topic was the acceleration of electrons using nanophotonic structures.  Congratulations!

Dr. Klaas-Jan Tielrooij has published a highly interesting commentary on our light-fast logic gate paper. In his article for Nature Materials, he discusses insights worth reading about the fundamentals of ultrafast processes, but also comments on how our light-field-based logic gate might enter opto...

Two negatively charged particles repel each other when they get too close. What is old hat in and of itself becomes highly relevant, however, when one looks at sources for ultrashort electron pulses. The best electron sources owe their excellent spatial beam properties to an emission area only nanom...

Great success for our PhD candidate Tobias Boolakee: the Center for Nanoscience at LMU Munich (CeNS) just awarded him the 1st prize of its Nano Innovation Award for strong results around "A light field-driven logic gate in a graphene heterojunction" - congratulations! More information on the CeNS we...

Strong results with deep new insights excellently presented on the poster - that's how you win the poster prize even at the top conferences. This just happened at Atto VIII in Florida to our senior PhD candidate Philip Dienstbier. Congratulations! The title of the poster was "Tracing sub-cycle elect...