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05 November 2025 · Research Highlight

Preventing dangerous short circuits in lithium batteries

Dendrites are considered the most dangerous destroyers of lithium batteries — tiny metal structures that can cause short circuits. In the worst case, they can cause batteries to burn or explode. An ...

04 November 2025

FLASH welcomes first user groups after shutdown

A new round of user experiments is starting this week at DESY's free-electron laser FLASH. During a long FLASH2020+ shutdown, ...

30 October 2025 · Research Highlight

New quasi-particle discovered in rare earth material

Electrons determine the properties of all materials: They decide whether a metal conducts electricity, how a semiconductor operates or which magnetic effects occur. In some materials, electrons behave in a ...

29 October 2025 · Research Highlight

Nanoscale under gigapressure

Sometimes a change of perspective can make a world of difference. A team of scientists from DESY and MAX IV as well as University of Bayreuth has rearranged the method in which one can use an X-ray beam to ...

Seminars

 07 Nov. 2025 - 14:00
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Frustrated Quantum Devices: Pathways to Leverage Complexity
Speaker: James Analytis (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Location: CFEL, Bldg. 99
Room: SemR I-III
14 Nov. 2025 - 14:00
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Quantum-based, magnetoreception in the bird retina
Speaker: Henrik Mouritsen (University Oldenburg, Germany)
Location: CFEL, Bldg. 99
Room: SemR I-III
21 Nov. 2025 - 14:00
Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Imaging at SLS2.0: The tomcat2.0 upgrade and beyond
Speaker: Marco Stampanoni (ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institut Villigen, Switzerland)
Location: CFEL, Bldg. 99
Room: SemR I-III
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Workshops

 05 Nov. 2025 to 07 Nov. 2025
ROCK-IT Bluesky Workshop
Location: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Room: CFEL (Building 99)
17 Nov. 2025 to 18 Nov. 2025
Soft X-ray Science at PETRA
Location: CFEL
Room: SemR I-III
25 Nov. 2025 - 13:00
PIER Day 2025 | Special focus: AI & Data Science
Location: CFEL (Sem. R. I-III)
26 Nov. 2025 to 28 Nov. 2025
Theory meets XFELs 2025
Location: European XFEL / CFEL DESY
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