PHOTON SCIENCE

Using corkscrew-shaped laser pulses, scientists at DESY have devised a sophisticated optical centrifuge that can make molecules rotate rapidly about a desired molecular axis. The innovative method opens ...

In a way of “quantum boiling” with intense X-ray flashes, scientists have stripped xenon atoms of most of their electrons. The international team around DESY researcher Sang-Kil Son and Robin ...

A German-French research team. including scientists from DESY, has identified surprising properties of nano-holes in semiconductor materials produced by a promising technique: In their experiments, hot ...

An international collaboration led by DESY and consisting of over 120 researchers has announced the results of the first scientific experiments at Europe's new X-ray laser European XFEL. The ...