Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

Inauguration of newly-founded MPSD

February 27, 2013

Managing Director Andrea Cavalleri inaugurates the newly founded Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter with a spontaneous reception.

Trapped photons turn SrTiO₃ ferroelectric

July 28, 2021

Photons trapped in a cavity can cause a crystal known as strontium titanate (SrTiO₃) to become ferroelectric, according to a new study by the MPSD’s theory group. The photons that are randomly created and destructed in the vacuum of a cavity – as ...

View of molecular motions in SEF

June 25, 2021

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) in Berlin, the MPSD and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg have provided important new insights into a key process for the development of more efficient solar cells and other light-based ...

Philip Moll joins MPSD as new director

June 24, 2021

Professor Philip Moll, from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been appointed as a new director at the MPSD. He joins managing director Andrea Cavalleri, who leads the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department, and the director of the Theory ...

Trapped light can reveal phonoriton

June 04, 2021

Scientists at the MPSD and the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a prediction that trapped light can be used to create a new kind of particle in a solid, consisting of three components at once: Light (photons), electronic ...

Prineha Narang begins research stay at MPSD

June 01, 2021

Prineha Narang, an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science at Harvard University, is coming to the MPSD for an extended research stay. She has been granted a Max Planck Sabbatical Award for her work in Germany. In addition, she ...

James McIver accepts Columbia assistant professor position

May 25, 2021

James McIver, the leader of the Non-Equilibrium Transport in Quantum Materials group, has accepted an assistant professor position with the Physics Department at Columbia University. James’ group, which is currently based at the MPSD, is part of the ...