Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

Quantum materials are a fascinating platform for future technologies, as they host a variety of exotic phenomena beyond the reach of classical physics. Among them, van der Waals heterostructures stand out: They are created by stacking different two-dimensional layers that can be only one atom thick. These structures are...

CUI member Prof. Henry Chapman and researchers at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL at DESY have developed a new room-temperature X‐ray crystallography technique that could significantly accelerate structure-based drug discovery—a process where drug candidates are tailored using the 3D structure of proteins.

Ferroic materials, like ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are central building blocks of modern data storage technology. Yet, current platforms face fundamental limits. Ferromagnets suffer from low switching speed, while the ferroelectric polarization is generally unstable because of the depolarizing response of the...

The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg will celebrate its twentieth anniversary with a festive ceremony followed by an academic symposium. The festivities are an excellent opportunity to review the last 2 decades of development, research, and teaching and to look ahead.

In quantum physics, many events are random. Classical determinism does apply to other areas no longer apply here, and yet these concepts form the basis of modern technologies. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has now awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to three quantum researchers.

There has been enormous progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even highly sophisticated microscope images can now be faked with ease. These manipulated images are indistinguishable from real ones, even to experts. In a recent publication in Nature Nanotechnology, an international team of nanoscientists...