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.

X-ray screening for Covid drugs

April 02, 2021

A team of researchers, including scientists from the MPSD, has identified several candidates for drugs against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus using the PETRA III X-ray light source at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY). They bind to an important ...

A speed limit for spins

March 30, 2021

Magnetic insulators are fascinating materials in which the electron spin can form currents without the need for any electrical current. Such ‚spin currents‘ could be used to transmit information. Now a theory research team from the MPSD, Tianjin ...

Two new Humboldt fellows announced

March 22, 2021

Two young researchers, Albert Liu and Alan Lewis, have been awarded Humboldt Fellowships to pursue their work at the MPSD. Albert Liu is based in Andrea Cavalleri's group in the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department and Alan Lewis works in Mariana ...

Seeing protein crystals in a different light

March 17, 2021

An international team of researchers from the MPSD at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, the University of Toronto (Canada), the Diamond Light Source in Oxford (UK) and the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Hamburg has found that ...

DEAL Operations website

March 15, 2021

Twistoptics: A new way to control optical nonlinearity

March 09, 2021

Researchers at Columbia University, the MPSD and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan have managed to engineer the first technique to exploit the tunable symmetry of 2D materials for nonlinear optical applications, including laser ...