How fast can a transparent solid be transformed into a metal through illumination with intense light? In a current collaboration of the SNP team and an international group of scientists, this question has now been answered for glas nanospheres. The study, which has just been published in ACS Photonics, describes the experimental observation of this process along with the theoretical analysis of the underlying physics. 

Study on generating low order harmonics via tunneling currents published in Nature Physics.

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The XFEL Annual Report 2019 with preliminary results of scattering experiments on superfluid helium droplets has been published. The studies were carried out at the SQS instrument of XFEL with participation of the group Strong-Field Nanophysics.

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Study on diffractive imaging of quatum coherent electron dynamics published in J. Phys. Photonics.

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We cordially welcome team assistant Cathleen Lawrenz as a new SNP group member!  

The German Science Foundation (DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has approved the second funding period of the Heisenberg-Professorship "Strong-Field Nanophysics" for the group of Prof. Thomas Fennel.

MNF invites you to attend the inaugural lecture by Prof. Thomas Fennel on February 6th 2020 at 5 pm.

Topic of this lecture: "Nonlinear electron dynamics in optical near-fields - perspectives for light-driven switches, high-precision material modification and single-shot holographic imaging in the nanoworld"

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