News

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...

As in 2018, the DPG Annual Meeting will be held in Erlangen in conjunction with the Spring Meeting of the SAMOP section. We have taken over the organization of the meeting at short notice and hope to welcome as many interested participants as possible from March 14-18, 2022 in the Erlangen city cent...

Great success for Dr. Christian Heide: for his dissertation "Attosecond-fast electron dynamics in graphene and graphene-based interfaces" he recently won two dissertation awards, namely the one of the Solid State Physics Section of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the one of the German Society ...

From September 27 to 30, the twice-annual conference of the ACHIP (Accelerator on a Chip International Program) collaboration took place in Erlangen, Germany. After 1.5 years, the conference could finally be held in a hybrid format again, so that at least a large part of our colleagues from differen...

Using optical near-fields generated by ultrashort laser pulses on a silicon nanostructure, free electron pulses can be selectively manipulated and accelerated on optical time scales. This acceleration technology is known as dielectric laser acceleration (DLA) - colloquially called acceleration onto ...

The Department of Physics at FAU awards its Ohm Prizes for outstanding theses. Already decided last year, but due to circumstances only handed over this year, Dr. Christian Heide and Urs Haeusler each received an Ohm Prize for their dissertation and master's thesis, respectively. Both were online at...