Archive of 2012

Dec. 14, 2012
Novel experimental concept provides structural insights

From blood vessels to cement mixers – information about how substances flow is key knowledge for a wide variety of systems. The viscosity and elasticity of fluids are routinely ...

Dec. 01, 2012
X-ray analysis deciphers master regulator important for skin cancer

Promising target for the development of novel drugs

Nov. 29, 2012
First new biological structure solved by a free-electron laser

Using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have exposed a possible Achilles' heel of the sleeping sickness parasite that threatens more than 60 million people in ...

Nov. 13, 2012
DESYs X-ray laser FLASH observes molecular explosion

Using DESY’s X-ray laser FLASH, a team of scientists from Hamburg has traced the ultrafast explosion of iodine molecules. The group headed by Markus Drescher from the Center for ...

Nov. 19, 2012
Physicists demonstrate crucial method for monitoring ultra short X-ray pulses

With their ultra short X-ray flashes, free-electron lasers offer the opportunity to film chemical reactions or atoms in motion. However, for this super slow motion the arrival time and the ...

Sep. 23, 2012
WAXD measurements at PETRA III: the kinetics of strain-induced crystallization in natural rubber (Sep. 2012)

Reasearchers from Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden and DESY studied the strain-induced crystallization in cross-linked natural rubber by using ...

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Free-electron laser FLASH reveals fast optical demagnetisation process (Oct. 2012)

Scientists from TU Berlin, DESY and the University of Paris discovered a surprising effect in the demagnetisation of ferromagnetic materials at DESY’s free-electron laser FLASH. The team of ...

Jul. 10, 2012
How to shoot ultrafast electrons (July 2012)

X-rays are used to probe the atomic-level structure of complex molecules, and methods for that tasks have been developed to more and more perfection, for instance at light sources like the PETRA III ...

Jun. 22, 2012
Coherent X-Ray scanning microscopy at PETRA III reached 10 nm resolution (June 2012)

A team of scientists from Technische Universität Dresden and DESY Photon Science recorded hard X-ray micrographs with a record spatial resolution of 10 nm, by using the hard X-ray scanning ...

Jun. 20, 2012
Watching the quantum race of electrons at FLASH (June 2012)

A team of physicists in Germany led by Markus Drescher (Hamburg University) and Michael Bonitz (Kiel University) and scientists from DESY has, for the first time, observed a special race of two ...

May. 03, 2012
First seeding at FLASH (May 2012)

There is a worldwide search of methods for initiating the process of producing laser light in free-electron lasers (FEL) with a well-defined radiation pulse, generated by an external laser source and ...

Mar. 20, 2012
Flower still life by Vincent van Gogh rediscovered thanks to new research technique at DORIS III (Mar. 2012)

After lengthy research the Kröller-Müller Museum has another Van Gogh painting to its name: Still life with meadow flowers and roses. Its authenticity had been in doubt ever since it was added to ...

Feb. 09, 2012
Scientists make iron transparent at PETRA III (Feb 2012)

For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent

Mar. 20, 2012
Flower still life by Vincent van Gogh rediscovered thanks to new research technique at DORIS III (Mar. 2012)

After lengthy research the Kröller-Müller Museum has another Van Gogh painting to its name: Still life with meadow flowers and roses. Its authenticity had been in doubt ever since it was added to ...

Feb. 09, 2012
Scientists make iron transparent at PETRA III (Feb 2012)

For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent

Mar. 11, 2012
Snapshots of Firework in Nanoparticles at FLASH: Beyond Conventional Ultrafast Spectroscopy (Mar.2012)

A Holy Grail of ultrafast science and technology is to image the changing structure of matter at the nanoscale during the interaction with light. An international collaboration including DESY photon ...

Jan. 30, 2012
About 680 participants at the joint Users' Meeting at DESY (Jan. 2012)

About 680 participants from 28 countries attended the European XFEL/HASYLAB Users' Meeting on 25–27 January 2012 in Hamburg. In a 3-day programme that was jointly organized by DESY and the European ...