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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...

For several years now, we have understood ultrafast coherent electron dynamics in graphene very well. Now we have looked at how ultrafast coherent electron dynamics behaves at graphene-gold junctions. We were able to work out how virtual and real carrier excitations affect currents, and how the resp...

In a wonderful collaboration with our partners from Switzerland, we have recently been able to show that the ideas and capabilities we use to accelerate electrons, namely inverse photonic design, are also excellent for generating terahertz radiation from highly relativistic electron beams. For this ...

Last year, Johannes Illmer defended his dissertation with Corona restrictions but with no less success! Congratulations, Dr. Illmer!

Our (already former) postdoc Dr. Yuya Morimoto prevailed in an extremely competitive process and was allowed to start his own independent Hakubi research group at the Japanese Center for Physical and Chemical Research, the world famous RIKEN. Congratulations and all the best for a successful start! ...

Are you thinking about a master's degree or a doctoral thesis in the broad field of photonics? Until 1.12. you can still apply for one of the coveted places in the Max Planck School for Photonics. We are also participating, which means that as a member of this graduate school you can also join us, b...