For the first time, a German-American research team has determined the three-dimensional shape of free-flying silver nanoparticles, using DESY's X-ray laser FLASH. The tiny particles, hundreds of times smaller than the width ...
Nanophysics
Feb 4, 2015
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Scientists at DESY have developed and implemented an optical synchronisation system for the soft X-ray free-electron laser FLASH, achieving facility-wide synchronisation with femtosecond precision. The performance of the ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 30, 2015
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An international team, including scientists from DESY, has caught a light sensitive biomolecule at work with an X-ray laser. The study proves that X-ray lasers can capture the fast dynamics of biomolecules in ultra slow-motion, ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 4, 2014
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Using DESY's ultrabright X-ray source PETRA III, researchers have observed in real-time how football-shaped carbon molecules arrange themselves into ultra-smooth layers. Together with theoretical simulations, the investigation ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 5, 2014
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Researchers from Göttingen in collaboration with colleagues from Augsburg have 'filmed' the movement of lipid molecules using an X-ray stroboscope at DESY. In the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, researchers ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 10, 2014
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IBM today announced it is collaborating with Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a leading national research center in Germany, to speed up management and storage of massive volumes of x-ray data. The planned Big Data ...
Hardware
Aug 22, 2014
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Following the intensive commissioning phase of the largest Cherenkov telescope worldwide (H.E.S.S. CT5), the H.E.S.S. collaboration has announced the detection of cosmic gamma rays of 30 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). The High ...
Astronomy
Jul 8, 2014
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A Swedish-German research team has successfully tested a new method for the production of ultra-strong cellulose fibres at DESY's research light source PETRA III. The novel procedure spins extremely tough filaments from tiny ...
Materials Science
Jun 2, 2014
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An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science ...
General Physics
Feb 28, 2014
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At DESY, scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the universities of Hamburg and Lübeck created new analysis possibilities for delicate biomolecules. ...
General Physics
Feb 13, 2014
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