Pint of Science

May 24, 2023 | MPQ, QITE, SQUAP, STM, TELEM

Several of our researchers are participating in the Pint of Science festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It is one of the largest science festivals in the world. Until May 24th, researchers and the general public come together over a drink in...

Ivan Favero is awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant

May 21, 2023 | LIME, MPQ

Ivan Favero, CNRS senior researcher at the MPQ laboratory, has just been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. Ivan Favero The project, entitled TUPHO (TUning of PHOtonic resonators) aims to improve the reproducibility of micro and nanophotonic devices, which remains...

Neutralization of nanoparticles in lung cells

Apr 22, 2023 | MEANS, MPQ

How does the body react to inhaled nanoparticles? In a collaboration involving researchers from the MEANS team at the MPQ laboratory, the evolution of molybdenum disulfide nanosheets in mouse lungs has been monitored for up to one month after inhalation....

Excitonic insulator: when electrons decouple from the crystal lattice

Mar 29, 2023 | MPQ, SQUAP

Many-body interactions in quantum materials are one of the main drivers of exotic ground states, such as Mott insulators, superconductors, and density waves. Figure:Two-color polarization resolved time resolved Raman scattering set-up. The pump pulse at 1030 nm drive...

Revealing the electronic profile of a p-n junction in doped graphene.

Oct 12, 2022 | MPQ, STM

Graphene, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, possesses unique and promising physical properties in various fields, particularly in electronics. Figure :Diagram (left) representing a cluster of C60 molecules used as a mask to protect graphene during doping by...