Physics Department News Archive
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Whether in vehicle transmissions, hip replacements, or tiny sensors for triggering airbags: The respective components must slide against each other with minimum friction to prevent loss of energy and material wear. Investigating the friction behavior of nanosystems, scientists from the Physik-Department of Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have discovered a previously unknown type of friction that sheds new light on some previously unexplainable phenomena.
In fossil remnants of iron-loving bacteria, researchers of Physik-Department found a radioactive iron isotope that they trace back to a supernova in our cosmic neighborhood. This is the first proven biological signature of a starburst on our earth.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) supports the development of high-precision experiments with ultra-cold neutrons. The funding is provided for the measurement of the electric dipole moment of the neutron.
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Finley takes over the Chair for Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Systems at the Walter Schottky Institut, succeeding from Prof. Dr. Gerhard Abstreiter.
„DNA ist einfach Wahnsinn“, sagt der Biophysiker Hendrik Dietz. Das neue Wissenschaftsportal „Arte Future“ zeigt zukunftsweisende Forschungsprojekte mit der Doppelhelix. Dabei schaut Arte auch ins Physik-Department: Hendrik Dietz will aus den Molekülen Nano-Roboter bauen – „Stricken“ mit DNA.
Prof. Dr. Norbert Kaiser wurde heute von Wissenschaftsminister Heubisch mit dem bayerischen “Preis für gute Lehre” ausgezeichnet.
Prof. Elisa Resconi (Hochenergie-Neutrinoastrophysik) und Prof. Lothar Oberauer (Niederenergie-Neutrinoastrophysik) wurden im Komitee für Astroteilchenphysik in Deutschland (KAT) als Representanten ihrer jeweiligen Forschungsgebiete gewählt.
Der Biophysiker Dr. Volker Schaller wurde mit einem Promotionspreis 2013 der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) ausgezeichnet. Den Preis der Sektion "Kondensierte Materie" erhielt er für seine Doktorarbeit und den Vortrag über das Thema "Structure Formation in Reconstituted Active Systems".
Prof. Gerhard Abstreiter has been named new director of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study. He is a renowned physicist in the fields of semiconductor research and nanotechnology and has been founding director of both the Walter Schottky Institute and the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials.
Physicists at the Physik-Department of TUM have developed a new concept for a quantum computer. Their approach is based on vibrations of carbon nanotubes, which could reduce the sensitivity on electro-magnetic disturbances.
The particle physicist Jacopo Ghiglieri has received the dissertation prize 2013 of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG). The three DPG divisions Gravitation and Relativity, Hadronic, Nuclear and Particle Physics award the dissertation prize for outstanding research in the framework of a PhD work and for excellent verbal and written presentation of the results.
The flow behavior of polymeric liquids poses a major challange to theory and experiment due to the inherently large number of degrees of freedom. Physicists present a new approach to determine the configurational dynamics of individual actin filaments in shear flow
and derive an analytical model for the dynamic flow.
When a crystal is hit by an intense ultrashort light pulse, its atomic structure is set in motion.
A team of physicists observed this motion on the femto second time scale.
Prof. Peter Ring, extraordinary professor emeritus for theoretical nuclear physics at Physik-Department, is among the 142 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals.
Bereits zum dritten Mal fand am 31. Januar 2013 am Physik-Department der Tag der Physikerin statt.
Das Physik-Department trauert um seinen emeritierten Professor Paul Kienle.
Paul Kienle war ein Physiker von internationaler Bedeutung und Strahlkraft.
Seine Leidenschaft galt der Teilchen-, Kern- und Atomphysik,
die er mit maßgeblich von ihm
gebauten Beschleunigern in Garching und Darmstadt zu neuen Erkenntnissen brachte.
X-ray microscopy requires radiation of extremely high quality. In order to obtain sharp images instrument and sample must stay absolutely immobile even at the nanometer scale during the recording.
A new method developed at TUM and PSI relaxes these hard restrictions.
Microwaves travel at the speed of light.
Physicists in Garching and Lausanne couple superconducting microwave circuits
with nanomechanical oscillators in order to control the propagation of microwaves.
They achieve a dramatic slowing down.
Physikerinnen und Physiker informieren am Donnerstag, den 7. Februar über das Physikstudium und die Forschung am Physik-Department.
Bei Laborführungen und Vorträgen erfahren die Schülerinnen und Schüler, dass die moderne Physik spannend ist und Spass macht!
