Institute of Physics @TUChemnitz

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🔊 This week, we'll be hosting Rouwen Cañal Bruland in our Physics Colloquium. Rouwen will present his latest insights into embodied decision making and anticipation.
Join us for the presentation on Thursday and why not catch up with some colleagues during ☕ coffee, tea, and biscuits from 3.15pm!?

🌿 Next GEMS session – Nov 19, 4:30pm CET!

Hear from Luis Huerta Hernandez (KAUST) & Kai Brinkmann (BUW) on ionic transport + crystallization in perovskites ⚡

🔗Join us → syddanskuni.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Perovskites #SolarCells #GEMS

Ready for kick-off ⌚ of the Winter Term Physics Colloquium!? We'll be starting this Thursday with the ever fascinating topics of black holes, gravitation, and relativity brought to us by Harald Pfeiffer of the MPI in Potsdam.
Join us for coffee, tea, and biscuits from 3.15pm outsite the lecture hall

Don't miss the start of this season's
@gem-series.bsky.social
! We'll be starting tomorrow with a new mode: once a month 📅 but double the science! 🥼🧪

Kicking things off, we'll be hosting Matteo Degani &
@philipschulz.bsky.social
with a lot of new info on halide perovskites.

Although it is a very grey morning here in Chemnitz, we wish everyone a very good start into the lecture period 25/26! 🧑‍🏫📖🔬

Led by our colleague Robert Magerle, a group of researchers has unravelled the role of Triacylglycerols in the mechanical properties of collagen fibrils - the main component of connective tissue. More info: doi.org/10.1039/D5SM...

The KahmannLab has been growing quite a bit over the past weeks and it was about time that we get a new group picture/gif -- meet the KahmannLab 2025!

Forschen am kältesten Punkt von Chemnitz Bei minus 269 Grad Celsius wird an der TU Chemnitz experimentiert – Eine neue Heliumverflüssigungsanlage ist dafür die Voraussetzung

Our new helium liquefier started operation yeterday! Liquid He can cool experiments down to a few Kelvin 🧊 but is both expensive and scarce. Replacing a 30-year old device, the liquefier contributes to a more sustainable way of doing science by recycling used He♻️
www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/presseste...

Note that our starting time is shifted to 2.30 this time. In addition to coffee, tea, and biscuits before the talk, we'll be gathering for the IoP summer fest with a BBQ 🥩🍻🥕 at the physics building afterwards.

We have a big lineup in our colloquium this week. Our colleague Ulrich Schwarz went all in and assembled a set of speakers on a wide range of topics related to his reserch over the years. We'll be hearing about optical stimulation, short-wavelength laser diodes, and surface emitting lasers...

A night in Stralsund and lunch in Greifswald made the 6-hour journey more than worth it. ✨
More info: www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/MAGFUN/

This year's physics tutorial trip from took us all the way to Greifswald — with stops at the Lubmin nuclear power plant and the #Wendelstein7-X fusion reactor! From past fission tech to the future of fusion, we got a glimpse of both worlds. ⚛️

This Thursday, in a joint colloqium with the HYPMOL research group, we'll be hosting Shuxia Tao from TU Eindhoven to hear all about the interesting and intricate aspects of halide perovskites. Surely, lots about metal halide octahedra in this one ;)
Joins us for tea and biscuits from 3.15 pm.

A fascinating seminar for our students and postdocs by Sarah Polter from Gymnasium Einsiedel, providing insight into the life of a teacher and informing about the career perspectives in teaching when teachers are desparately needed. Part of our Computational Science Seminar at @tucphys.bsky.social.

This Thursday, we'll be hosting Hélène Seiler who will be speaking about microscopic interactions in nanomaterials -- be prepared for some cool experiments and deeper insights into electron-phonon interactions. Join us from 3.15pm for coffee and biscuits! www.tu-chemnitz.de/physik/physi...

📢 In tomorrow's Physics Colloquium, we'll be hosting Hermann Kahle from University of New Mexico, who will be speaking on external-cavity surface-emitting lasers - join us for some insights into this exciting technology! Pew, pew!
Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be served from 3.15pm. ⏰

After our joint colloquium last week, we enjoyed a delicious BBQ with a great atmosphere with our friends from the Institute of Chemistry. Thanks to all the organisers and everyone contributing!

At our physics colloquium the Chemnitzer Förderverein für Physik e. V. (represented by Prof Ulrich Schwarz) handed out awards for the best BA degrees in Physics and Sensors & Cognitive Psychology to Dorothee Boesler and Michaela Schreiber, respectively. Congratulations!

Photoluminescence microscopy of optoelectronic materials - Nature Reviews Methods Primers Photoluminescence microscopy can give information on the electronic properties of optoelectronic materials and thus the performance of optoelectronic devices. In this Primer, Wei et al. cover experime...

If you want to get an overview about all the different flavours of PL microscopy and important aspects relevant for the study of optoelectronic materials, check out our new work www.nature.com/articles/s43... - great collaboration with the Cambridge crew driven by Zimu & @samstranks.bsky.social

This Thursday we'll be hosting Arno Ehresmann who will be talking about anisotropy enigineering in magnetic thin film systems in a joined colloquium with our friends in the Institute of Chemistry. Join us at 3.30pm or for tea and biscuits at 3.15pm! #CHEMnitz

Water based recycling of perovskite solar cells!? If that sounds weird to you, how about joining us for the last presentation of our @gem-series.bsky.social spring speakers?

Tomorrow we'll start at 11am CET to host Xun Xiaofrom Peking University. More info: greenenergymaterials-series.com

We have another great talk in the @gem-series.bsky.social on offer! Join us tomorrow for Maurizio's presentation on the realm of coating techniques to scale up the fabrication of #perovskite solar cells and modules!

Come join us in culture capital @chemnitz.de

In this week's colloquium, we'll be needing a lot of Fingerspitzengefühl - János Horváth will talk on foce measurements and action representations. Join us for tea and biscuits from 3.15pm outside the lecture hall.

Jan Anton gave a wonderful talk on doping of organic semiconductors and thermoelectrics during our colloquium.

Great introduction on pushing NMR to its limits! Last week, Dieter Suter (TU Dortmund) was our guest in a joint colloquium of the IoP and the #HYPMOL consortium. Dieter taught us the benefits of optical pumping for increased sensitivity and selectivity in #NMR of extremely small sample volumes.

📢📢📢 GEMS speakers for the month of May are here! Join us for the talks by Junia and Maurizio and hear more about the new exciting deposition techniques for halide perovskites. Spin-coating is so last year.. @gem-series.bsky.social #perovskites

The pupils also had the chance to solder their own blinking LED circuits 💡– a hands-on introduction to electronics in our student lab.

We explored our labs together, experimented, and most importantly, had a great time learning through discovery!

Read more: www.stiftungjohanneum.de/aktuell/71-w...

This year, we collaborated with the Johanneum Stiftung in Chemnitz to spark enthusiasm for the #MINT area among the next generation of researchers. Together, we assembled robots and created programs to automate their movements 🤖.