High pressure has revealed surprising physics and created novel states in condensed matter. Exciting examples include near room temperature superconductivity (T c > 200 K) in high-pressure hydrides ...

In nature, photosynthesis powers plants and bacteria; within solar panels, photovoltaics transform light into electric energy. These processes are driven by electronic motion and imply charge transfer ...

X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful technique for probing the local electronic and geometric structure of matter with element and site specificity. By measuring the absorption of X-rays ...

Electronic spectroscopy has emerged as a fundamental method for probing the quantum mechanical behaviour of molecules upon absorption of light. By resolving the energies, lifetimes and pathways of ...

While there are a number of techniques available for profiling surface structures, like scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, the advantage Auger spectroscopy has for ...

Photoemission spectroscopy (PES) is a powerful analytical technique used to study the electronic structure and chemical composition of materials. It is based on the photoelectric effect, where ...

Transitions between different electronic energy levels in elements occur at unique energies and intensities, giving each element a distinctive emission spectrum. When the energy of an incident photon ...

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a surface-sensitive analytical technique that provides information about the elemental composition, chemical state, and electronic structure of a material's surface ...

Physicists achieve major leap in precision and accuracy at extremely low light levels. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have successfully developed a new technique for ...