Marie Curie Fellow Christian Schäfer spent five days at the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting - together with 650 other junior scientists. The exchanges with Nobel Laureates like Serge Haroche and Donna Strickland left him deeply inspired.more
The multiferroic NiI2 has greater magnetoelectric coupling than any known material of its kind, making it a prime candidate for technology advances, an international research team reports in Nature. more
A theory team from the MPSD collaborating with researchers in the United States and Switzerland has explained the key mechanism leading to terahertz amplification in the excitonic insulator candidate Ta2NiSe5. The work has been published in Nature Communications.more
