Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz visited the IEP in December. We were so proud while giving him a lab tour! This exceptional day peaked in Ferenc’s inspiring evening talk “Sub-atomic motions probe human health”. Thank you so much for coming!

Spin cycle. A new method for generating spin currents uses a linearly polarized laser pulse (red), followed by a circularly polarized probe laser (purple). Read more:

• Ultrafast Lasers Induce Spin Currents Directly
• Spin Dynamics across Metallic Layers on the Few-Femtosecond Timescale

In a two-stage process, Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt was able to prevail in the worldwide competition "Woman in Ultrafast Science Global Award" and was awarded first place with her contribution "Dual comb spectroscopy in the visible spectral region with enhanced temporal coherence".

Announcement: The Ultrafast Science Journal announces the recipients of the 2nd Women in Ultrafast Science Global Award

Can a single, vibrating molecule act like an electromagnet?
In a recent article we postulate that molecular magnetic fields, created by a concerted excitation of two degnerate vibrational modes, may be controlled by infrared light. We chose phtalocyanine as our molecular template and make predictions for NMR chemical shifts which may serve as a tool for the experimental confirmation.
Stay tuned!

Coherent Sensing: The Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology is develops a novel UV broadband spectrometer that enables continuous real-time analysis of air pollutants and their interaction with other gases and sunlight.
Broadband near-ultraviolet dual comb spectroscopy
Lukas Fürst, Adrian Kirchner, Alexander Eber, Florian Siegrist, Robert di Vora and Birgitta Bernhardt In: Optica Vol. 11, Issue 4,  2024, https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.516783

IEP visited the talk by Nobel laureate Anne l’Huillier @ÖAW in Vienna.

“Attosecond Pulses for studying ultrafast electron dynamics” Impressive talk! And thanks for taking the picture with us.

Reportage in der Kleinen Zeitung:

Am Institut für Experimentalphysik an der Technischen Universität Graz schieben junge Forscher mit komplexen versuchen die Ränder unseres Wissens weiter hinaus.

^{Das Institut für Experimentalphysik der TU Graz revolutioniert in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gruppe um F. Capasso / Harvard die Handhabung von extrem ultravioletter Strahlung um die Solarzellen und Prozessoren der Zukunft zu erforschen.}

^{Extreme Ultraviolet Metalens by Vacuum Guiding
M. Ossiander, M. L. Meretska, H. K. Hampel, S. W. D. Lim, N. Knefz, T. Jauk, F. Capasso, M. Schultze
Science Vol 379, Issue 6639 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6881}

Our manuscript „The speed limit of Optoelectronics“ was selected as one of the 2022 Physics Breakthroughs:

Here is the manuscript: https://rdcu.be/c1RLP

and the Physics World story: https://physicsworld.com/a/physics-world-reveals-its-top-10-breakthroughs-of-the-year-for-2022/