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Controlling electrons with optical fields of few-cycle laser pulses opens an avenue to coherently manipulate electron trajectories inside of materials. This control gives access to rich physics such as quantum path interference and topological effects . Recently we could experimentally demonstrate ...

How do optical near-fields between two ultrasharp metal needles of femtosecond laser pulses couple at the nanometer level? This question is addressed in our manuscript just published in PRB. Together with our colleagues from the Chair of Solid State Physics, we developed a scanning tunneling microsc...

Charge separation at an interface between two materials is a fundamental process in electronic components. It determines how fast signals can be transmitted in transistors and how efficiently power is generated in solar cells. Novel material combinations of stacked two-dimensional materials, so-call...

It's out there - released December 26. What a nice Christmas present - to us as well as to our Stanford partners. Thanks PRL!

We as the Chair of Laser Physics had the privilege and pleasure to host the Christmas Lecture of the Department of Physics 2019 on December 5th. A short review with pictures is now available as a website. The corresponding video recording will follow shortly.

Timo Eckstein wins Applied Photonics Award for the best master thesis in the field of Photonics. Congratulations! The award was handed over by Physics Noble Prize Winner Gerard Mourou and Zeiss CEO Michael Kaschke. More details can be found here.

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...