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Our new paper is out! We demonstrate an approach to track in real time the dynamics of a normally invisible excited state in an atomically thin material. In single-layer WS2, electrons and holes bind into excitons. Some exciton states are “bright” and emit light, while others are “dark” and usual...

At this years Long Night of the Sciences (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) we presented our work to the general public. Hannah, Isabella, Alexander, and Eric showed and explained not only how LEED and STM produce scientific data but also presented real instruments. Video animations, 3D models and pos...

The so-called 'Perovskite solar cells' have achieved remarkable efficiency improvements over the past twenty years, reaching up to 25%. This progress is largely attributed to the discovery and optimization of functional layers that interface the perovskite light absorber with the external environmen...

It may sound counterintuitive, but sometimes noise can actually improve a measurement. In the quantum world, the chaotic nature of noise is not just a disturbance, but it carries valuable statistical information about a system’s behavior. Our team has developed a technique that harnesses the intrins...

On 9-10th January, a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral network has kicked off: SPARKLE is a cutting-edge European research initiative with the aim of exploring polaritonics and light-matter hybrid systems. The project – funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation progr...

The Chair of Solid State Physics is pleased to announce an internal symposium to be held on Monday 9th of December 2024 with the title "Prospectives for designing and controlling functionalities in quantum materials".  The meeting will take place in room 308 in the Physics Building with the purpose ...

Please find here our latest paper. If this was a romance, it would be a story about how the life of two friends (phonon and photon), who are forced to have many interactions because they share a tight room (the cavity), changes dramatically when a visitor comes (the "free" electron). As it is a scie...

It is a pleasure to announce that the 10th Gordon Research Conference (GRC) of the series "Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems" will take place on February 4 - 9, 2024 at the beautiful location Renaissance Tuscany, Il Ciocco Resort, in Lucca, Italy. The conference - organized by Daniele Fa...

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) Supports Groundbreaking Research at the Chair of Solid State Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg (FAU). We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Fausti's group has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the Gordon and ...

In a collaborative effort with the group of Prof. F. Reinert and Dr. H. Bentmann at University Würzburg the electronic structure of a tellurium (Te) adsorbate structure was investigated by angle resolved photoemission (ARPES, U Würzburg) and structure determination (U Erlangen). It turned out, that ...