06 February 2025 · Research Highlight
PETRA III delivers novel approach to determine melting at high pressures
An international team of scientists from DESY Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S.), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (Germany) has developed a novel approach to accurately determine the melting temperature of opaque materials using X-ray phase contrast imaging and X-ray diffraction in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell at up to ...04 February 2025 · Research Highlight
Femtosecond insights into laser-assisted photoemission from metal surfaces
The recent advancements in high-intensity ultrafast X-ray science have paved the way for a new era of time-resolved pump-probe experiments: They have the potential to reveal previously inaccessible information about the interactions of photons with surfaces and the electronic dynamics they induce. This study presents an innovative investigation of the laser-assisted photoelectric effect (LAPE) ...31 January 2025
Vincent Wanie was honoured with the ‘Photonics Early Career Award 2024’
Vincent Wanie, scientist at DESY Photon Science, was awarded the ‘JPhys Photonics Early Career Award 2024’. Every year, the Journal of Physics: Photonics (JPhys Photonics) brings together the best early-career researchers in photonics and publish their exceptional work in an annual collection dedicated to 'Emerging leaders'. According to the publisher, these are top researchers in their field ...28 January 2025
A Global Vision for Helical X-Ray-Laser Pulses to Unveil Life’s Fastest Movements
Over the past years, scientists worldwide have collaborated extensively to develop cutting-edge approaches with helical free-electron laser (FEL) pulses. These advancements aim to capture some of the fastest motions in nature, exploring them at the level of specific elements with a special ‘twist’. In Physical Review Research, leading experts from institutions such as the University of ...24 January 2025
'Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship' for Andrea Trabattoni
Andrea Trabattoni, scientist at DESY Photon Science, CFEL and W2 professor for Ultrafast Photoelectron Research at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), has been awarded a 'Niedersachsen-Impuls-Professur'. This prestigious funding is aimed at advancing his career by expanding his expertise, refining his professional profile and preparing him for future leadership roles in science. Additionally, the ...24 January 2025
The 2025 DESY Photon Science User Award goes to Yongjae Lee
On the occasion of the DESY Photon Science Users’ meeting 2025, Yongjae Lee was honoured with the second 'DESY Photon Science User Award'. This award is given to a user or group of users of FLASH and/or PETRA III and acknowledges singular and exceptional contributions to the general advancement of science using DESY’s large-scale photon science facilities.Yongjae Lee is ...
23 January 2025
Over 1100 participants registered for users’ meetings of DESY and European XFEL
High level of participation once again at the users' meetings 2025 of the Hamburg X-ray light sources. More than 1100 scientists have registered to discuss latest research performed at the DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and free-electron laser FLASH as well as at the X-ray laser European XFEL and to inform themselves about new developments and future prospects over the course of the ...17 January 2025 · Research Highlight
Developing irradiation-insensitive glasses through yielding
How do photons interact with amorphous materials? A collaboration between scientists from the group of ‘Disordered Systems’ at the University of Padua and DESY Photon Science has unveiled how glasses prepared using different methods respond to irradiation with hard X-rays. The simultaneous study of the structural, dynamic and thermodynamic modifications induced by photons suggests that X-rays ...16 January 2025 · Research Highlight
Discovery of a new class of bacterial enzymes
Researchers at DESY Photon Science, together with international colleagues, have discovered a new class of enzymes that can be used to uncover previously unknown biological processes. The researchers suspect that these bacterial “diDNases” - the technical term - could play an important role in the immune defense of bacteria. The team recently published their findings in the renowned journal ...08 January 2025 · Research Highlight
A high-performance optical amplifier for microdevices
Researchers at DESY Photon Science have developed a millimeter-sized high-power amplifier with an output power of more than one watt on silicon-based optical microchips. This output power is a many times higher than what was previously achievable on this tiny scale and enables the use of high-power on-chip amplifiers in the field of integrated photonics instead of external amplifiers. This would ...20 December 2024
DESY Photon Science distinction for exceptional achievements of employees
On the occasion of the DESY Photon Science divisional meeting on 16 December 2024, Olof Gutowski was honoured with the 'DESY Photon Science Instrumentation and Methods Award 2024'.Olof Gutowski, engineer at DESY Photon Science, received this award for his contribution to the development of the X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomoography (XRD-CT) programme at the PETRA III beamline P07. ...
