Nov. 16, 2010
Henry Chapman is awarded the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize (November 2010)
On 15 November, Henry Chapman received the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2010. The 43-year-old physicist and Professor at the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY is awarded the prize for his ...
Nov. 07, 2010
PETRA III runs with a beam current of 100 mA (Nov. 2010)
Last week, PETRA III was running with a positron beam current of 100 milliamperes (mA) during user operation for the first time. With this, the brilliant synchrotron radiation source has reached the ...
Sep. 03, 2010
First 480m of the European XFEL tunnel system are completed (Sep. 2010)
After less than two months, the tunnel boring machine TULA broke through the wall of its reception shaft and reached the first milestone - 480 meters of the tunnel system for the European XFEL are ...
Sep. 03, 2010
PETRA III takes up research operation - first external users welcomed (Sep. 2010)
DESY’s new X-ray source PETRA III has taken up operation for the international science community. At the 2.3-kilometres long synchrotron source of the third generation, the first external users ...
Jul. 26, 2010
Topping-out ceremony for CFEL (July 2010)
Vis-à-vis the PETRA III experimental hall at DESY, a very special new building celebrated its topping-out ceremony: the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) – a centre of excellence for ...
Jun. 30, 2010
Start of tunnel construction for the European XFEL (June 2010)
The traditional tunnel and borer christening celebration on 30 June 2010 marked the start of construction of the tunnel system for the X-ray laser European XFEL. On 31 June 2010 the first of the two ...
Jun. 17, 2010
Record wavelength at FLASH – First lasing below 4.5 nanometres (Jun. 2010)
For the first time, FLASH produced laser light with a wavelength of 4.45 nanometres; thus, DESY’s free-electron laser for soft X-ray light considerably beat its previous record of 6.5 nanometres. ...
May. 20, 2010
HASYLAB annual users reports 2009 available online (May 2010)
A deeper insight into the photon science activities is provided by the several hundred annual user experiment and development reports of research activities in 2009. These are now only available ...
May. 17, 2010
DESY scientists observe the collective Lamb shift for the first time (May 2010)
An ensemble of identical atoms submitted to irradiation of light behaves differently than a single atom. Jointly, the atoms emit light at a lower frequency than a single atom would do. This effect, ...
Apr. 26, 2010
Röntgen Medal for Helmut Dosch (Apr. 2010)
The Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, Professor Helmut Dosch, has been awarded the Röntgen Medal 2010 of the city of Remscheid. He received the medal for his ground-breaking work in the field ...
Feb. 25, 2010
Avian magnetometer system of birds (Feb. 2010)
- new study of iron containing sensory dendrites
A team of scientists from HASYLAB/DESY, University of Oldenburg, and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin led by Frankfurt University ...
Jan. 22, 2010
HASYLAB annual users reports available online (May 2010)
A deeper insight into the photon science activities is provided by the several hundred annual user experiment and development reports of research activities in 2008. These were formerly published in ...
