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Seeing the invisible: A real life Eye of Sauron?

“That’s the idea here: an all-seeing eye that can detect hazardous aerosols against a very crowded background of other substances”

05-Apr-2024 - Picture this disaster scenario in the making: At an industrial plant, a pipe cracks, spraying a cloud of tiny droplets into the air. Workers, however, are in luck. Within minutes, a laser-based device the size of a small suitcase spots the cloud and tells safety crews what’s in it so they know ...

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First-ever X-ray attosecond experiment on liquids provides new insights into water’s molecular properties

Theorists explain how X-ray measurement freezes hydrogen motion, with implications on other areas of chemistry

19-Feb-2024 - An international team has performed an attosecond-scale experiment at an X-ray free-electron laser on liquid water for the first time, and the results may change our interpretation of water’s behaviour. The experiment team, led by scientist Linda Young from Argonne National Laboratory in the US, ...

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Intense lasers shine new light on the electron dynamics of liquids

A new spectroscopical tool to study liquids

02-Oct-2023 - The behavior of electrons in liquids determines a vast range of chemical processes and thus essential processes in organisms and the world as a whole. But electron movements are extremely hard to capture because they take place within attoseconds: the realm of quintillionths of a second. Since ...

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Experiments reveal that water can “talk” to electrons in graphene

Results could lead to applications in water purification and desalination processes and maybe even to liquid-based computers

27-Jun-2023 - Water and carbon make a quantum couple: the flow of water on a carbon surface is governed by an unusual phenomenon dubbed quantum friction.A work published in ‘Nature Nanotechnology’ experimentally demonstrates this phenomenon – which was predicted in a previous theoretical study— at the ...

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Laser technology for energy-efficient production of battery cells coupled with improved performance

Save energy in production while also making it possible to create battery cells with higher power density and a longer service life

05-Apr-2023 - High-performance battery cells are a crucial prerequisite for electrifying the mobility sector. With this in mind, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen have developed innovative laser-based technologies for producing lithium-ion batteries — which, in ...

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Laser controls ultra-fast liquid switch

Researchers unveil a brand new concept for switches with unprecedented speed

15-Dec-2022 - Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have developed an ultra-fast water-based switch. A short but powerful laser pulse converts the water into a conductive state within less than a trillionth of a second (10-12 seconds), during which time it behaves almost like a metal. This makes it ...

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Historical breakthrough for clean energy of the future

Lasers have ignited fusion: Virtually inexhaustible source of energy

14-Dec-2022 - Lasers have ignited a mini star on earth, laying the foundation for a clean energy source of the future: A historical breakthrough in inertial confinement fusion research at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and a defining moment for Photonics! One of the most ...

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Milestone for laser technology: Huge research machine much smaller and cost-effective

Research team demonstrates free-electron laser driven by plasma accelerated electron beams and seeded by additional light pulses

07-Dec-2022 - Extremely intense light pulses generated by free-electron lasers (FELs) are versatile tools in research. Particularly in the X-ray range, they can be deployed to analyze the details of atomic structures of a wide variety of materials. Until now, FELs such as the European XFEL in Germany are based ...

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Light-driven molecular swing

Scientists have used ultrashort laser pulses to make the atoms of molecules vibrate and have gained a precise understanding of the dynamics of energy transfer

20-Oct-2022 - When light impinges on molecules, it is absorbed and re-emitted. Advances in ultrafast laser technology have steadily improved the level of detail in studies of such light-matter interactions. FRS, a laser spectroscopy method in which the electric field of laser pulses repeating millions of times ...

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Making nanodiamonds out of bottle plastic

Research team uses laser flashes to simulate the interior of ice planets – and spurs a new process for producing miniscule diamonds

06-Sep-2022 - What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock and France’s École Polytechnique conducted a novel experiment. They fired a laser at a thin film of simple PET plastic and ...

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