A team at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels has developed a process for providing sensitive semiconductors for solar water splitting (‘artificial leaves’) with an organic, transparent protective layer. The extremely thin protective layer made of carbon chains is stable, conductive, and covered with catalyzing nanoparticles of metal oxides. These accelerate the splitting of water […]
Metal Oxide Sandwiches: New Option to Manipulate Properties of Interfaces
A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for instance the amount of charge transferred from one layer to the other or the emergence of ferromagnetism. Their insights might help to create […]
Scientists Demonstrate How to Improve Ultrathin CIGSe Solar Cells by Nanoparticles
Light Tsunami in a Superconductor
In their latest experiment, Prof. Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg-based Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and Dr. Michael Gensch from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) investigated together with other colleagues from the HZDR, the United Kingdom, and Japan if and how superconductivity can […]