News (2021)15 October 2021|SFB925Review on ultrafast control of quantum materialsPhoto: MPSDA review involving a team of MPSD scientists, just published as a colloquium in the prestigious Reviews of Modern Physics, explores how light can...8 October 2021|SFB925A highly simplified way to predict quantum light-matter interactionsPhoto: Jörg Harms, MPSDWhen light interacts with matter, for example when a laser beam hits a two-dimensional material like graphene, it can substantially change the...24 September 2021|SFB925Twisted layers of MoS2 enable the engineering of novel states of matterPhoto: Martin ClaassenA team of researchers from Germany, China and the United States has discovered that two twisted layers of MoS2 can be used to control kinetic energy...14 September 2021|SFB925Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in materialsPhoto: Jörg Harms, MPSDTheoreticians at the MPSD predict that a unique laser source could produce highly controllable electric currents in any bulk material. The team’s...21 June 2021|SFB925Ultrafast lasers can protect a DNA building block from light-induced dissociationPhoto: U. De Giovannini MPSDAn international research team led by CFEL researcher Francesca Calegari and with the key participation of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure...18 May 2021|SFB925New approach to calculate electron traffic jam in transition metal dichalcogenidePhoto: Dongbin Shin, MPSDThough they both consist only of H2O molecules, water and ice exhibit apparently distinct characters: The former is solid and the latter is the very...21 April 2021|SFB925Lighting it up: Fast material manipulation by laserPhoto: Samuel BeaulieuResearchers from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and the MPSD have found out that ultrafast switches in material properties can be prompted by...20 January 2021|SFB925A new natural platform for realizing flat-band quantum phenomena and topological statesPhoto: Carmen Rubio-VerdúElectrons in solids can have only certain energies, called bands. In recent years, it was shown experimentally that the range of energies allowed for...14 January 2021|SFB925'Moiré metrology' - a new tool to map the interaction between atomically thin layersPhoto: Dorri HalbertalWhen two atomically thin layers of a material are stacked and twisted slightly on top of one another, they can develop radically different properties...6 January 2021|SFB925Kicking atoms induces transparency in CuGeO3Photo: University of Trieste / INSRLAll photo-electronic devices work on the basis that the materials inside them absorb, transmit and reflect light. Understanding the photo properties...