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Trillionths of a second

Physicists at the University of Konstanz generate one of the shortest signals ever produced by humans: Using paired laser pulses, they succeeded in compressing a series of electron pulses to a numerically analyzed duration of only 0.000000000000000005 seconds.

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The world's fastest electron microscope

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have succeeded for the first time in filming the interactions of light and matter in an electron microscope with attosecond time resolution.

Transfer zum gegenseitigen Nutzen

Alfred Leitenstorfer und sein Team erhalten gemeinsam mit TOPTICA Photonics den Technologietransferpreis der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft

Two-dimensional nanoparticles with great potential

A German-Chinese research team with participants from the University of Konstanz has discovered how catalysts and many other nanoplatelets can be produced in an environmentally friendly way from readily available materials and in sufficient quantities.

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Why selfishness can lead to fairness

Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds.

The thermodynamics of quantum computing

In research on quantum computers, one aspect that has been mostly neglected until now is the generation of heat. Physicists from Konstanz, Grenoble and Helsinki now focus their attention on heat as an interference factor – and have developed a method to experimentally measure the heat generated by a superconducting quantum system.

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Nicholas Kurti Science Prize

Konstanz physicist Angelo di Bernardo receives prize for research on the coupling effects of superconductors with other materials.

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Moving furniture in the micro-world

An international research team led by physicists from Konstanz discovers a state of ultra-low static friction when rotating microscopic objects on crystalline surfaces.