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.

Clocking electron movements in atoms

January 18, 2021

Hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses for over a decade. One of the most promising applications of XFELs is in biology, where researchers can capture images down to the atomic scale even before the ...

Moiré tool shows how layers interact

January 14, 2021

When two atomically thin layers of a material are stacked and twisted slightly on top of one another, they can develop radically different properties. They may become superconducting, like famously demonstrated for twisted bilayer graphene (TBL), or ...

'Kicking' atoms for transparent state

January 06, 2021

All photo-electronic devices work on the basis that the materials inside them absorb, transmit and reflect light. Understanding the photo properties of a specific material at the atomic level not only helps to decide what material to choose for a ...

Highly resolved gold nanoparticles

January 04, 2021

An international team of scientists, led by Kartik Ayyer from the MPSD, has obtained some of the sharpest possible 3D images of gold nanoparticles. The results lay the foundation for obtaining high resolution images of macromolecules. The study was ...

Group leaderships for MPSD scientists at Excellence Cluster

December 14, 2020

The MPSD is welcoming two new researchers who have been selected by the University of Hamburg for its new Young Investigator Group Leader programme. Frank Schlawin and Aaron Kelly are currently visiting scientists at the MPSD and will take part in ...

Molecules in confined spaces

December 09, 2020

A team of researchers from Italy, Norway, and Germany has demonstrated that the properties of molecules undergo significant changes when interacting with quantized electromagnetic fields in optical cavities. Using novel theoretical methodologies and ...