The Wolfgang E. Ernst Festschrift on the occasion of his 70th birthday is out - a highly diverse collection of PCCP articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dear Wolfgang, congratulations and all the best wishes! With your broad interest in all sorts of topics and your personal motivation you have been an inspiration to many generations of scientists.

TU Graz hosted the Roadshow of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on June 13, 2023.

The IEP was there with two contributions.

^{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/

How to make 2D materials with tailored holes: Scientists discover new open network structures in a combined helium scattering and DFT study, during on-surface synthesis of hexagonal boron nitride.

Nanoscale Horizons

With the Austrian Science Fund’s (FWF) science prize endowed with 1.2 million euros, Marcus Ossiander is designing new nano-optics with the aim of building a microscope that can measure ultra-short chemical reactions with extreme precision.

TUG Pressemeldung | FWF

Together with colleagues from MPQ/ Garching & TU Vienna we have explored how fast (opto-)electronic information technology can possibly get. Good news, there is still a few orders of magnitude processing speed we can make use of in the future.

Nature Communications 13, 1620 (2022)

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Gruppe um F. Capasso / Harvard ist es gelungen ein neuartiges Schema zur Verkürzung ultrakurzer Laserimpulse zu demonstrieren. Congratulations Marcus!

Slow light nanocoatings for ultrashort pulse compression
M. Ossiander, Y.-W. Huang, W. T. Chen, Z. Wang, X. Yin, Y. A. Ibrahim, M. Schultze & F. Capasso
Nature Communications 12, 6518 (2021)

We have recently discovered that free electrons solvated in superfluid helium can be accelerated with ultrashort laser pulses by means of laser-assisted electron scattering.

Nature Communications 12, 4204 (2021) | TUG press release

She receives the renowned prize for her project to investigate the interaction between UV light and matter in spectral ranges that have not yet been extensively researched

TUG Pressemeldung | ERC

With her project Electronic Fingerprint Spectroscopy, Birgitta Bernhardt will develop a novel spectrometer that enables a closer look onto electron dynamics in molecules

TUG Pressemeldung | FWF