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Daniel’s “Research Update”, a form of mini review, summarizes the progress made in the field, and in particular the work performed in the Fauster and Niesner group in recent years. The article has been published and designated “Editor’s Pick” by APL Materials. Open access via https://doi.org/10.1... Continue

Please be advised that currently all levels of staff of the Chair of Solid State Physics can only be contacted by email. This is due to the measures taken against the spread of the coronavirus which require that employees work from home. The addresses can be found here: https://www.fkp.physik.nat.fa... Continue

Next week is the big week for Feifei and Sebastian. Both are going to defend their theses.   Sebastian Otto will take the lead on Thursday. He will defend his thesis about "Two-photon photoelectron spectroscopy on topological insulators" on Thursday 14:00,  lecture hall F. The public ta... Continue

Last week three bachelor students finished their theses at our chair successfully: Felix Trunk Kevin Vestner Tobias Kirschbaum Congratulations! We wish you much success in your studies and hope to see you from time to time! Felix and Tobias have the chance to present their results o... Continue

Last weekend the annual FKP-Skiing event took place in Maishofen (Saalbach, Austria) for the 31st time, or maybe 32nd time, who cares it is already tradition for a long time. For three days active, former and associated members of the chair were skiing together and had a great time. Continue

With the beginning of the new year 2020, the SFB953: "Synthetic Carbon allotropes" is going to enter into its third funding period. For the first time, Daniel Niesner is going to be part of the collaborative research center and investigate the excited-state dynamics in synthetic carbon allotropes. W... Continue

Only a few days left: Daniel Niesner is excited to present the groups' results on the electron and spin dynamics in lead halide perovskites at the fourth edition of the "Next Generation Solar Cells" conference at the Energy Campus Nürnberg. https://www.ngse.info/ Continue

Molecules cannot "decide" which partner they want to bind to. Therefore it is an enticing problem to understand how chemical reactions become selective, in our case stereoselective. By carefully analyzing STM data and combining them with extensive DFT calculations we unraveled the reason why parti... Continue

The second Edition of the textbook "Oberflächenphysik" (surface science) by Prof. Thomas Fauster, Dr. Lutz Hammer, Prof. Klaus Heinz, and Prof. M. Alexander Schneider is available from today on. The textbook gives a compact overview about surface science and its experimental methods. For now, the bo... Continue

The structural analysis of TaS2 is published as editors' suggestion in PRB today. This record-breaking LEED-I(V) analysis includes 128 inequivalent beams of diffracted electrons to determine the positions of 78 atoms in the two outmost trilayers. Fun fact: PRB announced it next to the Nobel Prize... Continue