DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Director: Martin Wolf
Emeritus: Gerhard Ertl
Research Groups
Atomic-Scale Microscopy & Spectroscopy
Akitoshi Shiotari
Lattice Dynamics
Alex Paarmann
Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy
Martin Thämer
Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy
Melanie Müller
Emmy Noether Groups
Dynamics of Correlated Materials
Laurenz Rettig
THz Structural Dynamics
Sebastian Maehrlein
Max Planck Fellow
Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics
Ralph Ernstorfer (also at TU-Berlin)
Associated & Former Groups
Nanoscale Surface Chemistry (IMS)
Takashi Kumagai (former website)
Electron Dynamiχ (HU Berlin)
A. Julia Stähler
Terahertz Physics (FU Berlin)
Tobias Kampfrath (former website)
... further Former Groups
Support Group
Technicians Group
Marcel Krenz
Events & Seminars
Mon., 4 Dec. 2023, 9:15 am  -  Joint Workshop  -  Room G 2.06
Joint Workshop on Emerging Techniques of Nanospectroscopy Based on Scanning Probe Microscopy, 09.15am - 3.45pm
Mon., 4 Dec. 2023, 9:15 am  -  Joint Workshop  -  Room G 2.06
Joint Workshop on Emerging Techniques of Nanospectroscopy Based on Scanning Probe Microscopy, 09.15am - 3.45pm
 
Thu., 7 Dec. 2023, 3:00 pm  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Pranoti Kshirsagar
(The Science Talk)
Under the Microscope - Spotlighting Materials & Nano Science
Thu., 7 Dec. 2023, 3:00 pm  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Under the Microscope - Spotlighting Materials & Nano Science
Pranoti Kshirsagar 
(The Science Talk)
Mon., 22 Jan. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Francesco Grandi
(Technische Hochschule Aachen)
Ultrafast Dynamics in a Photo-induced Symmetry-breaking Transition
Mon., 22 Jan. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Ultrafast Dynamics in a Photo-induced Symmetry-breaking Transition
Francesco Grandi 
(Technische Hochschule Aachen)
Mon., 12 Feb. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Clara Saraceno
(Ruhr University Bochum)
Department Seminar - tba
Mon., 12 Feb. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
Department Seminar - tba
Clara Saraceno 
(Ruhr University Bochum)
News
  • Coherent Light Control of a
    Metastable Hidden State
    New insights into a complex phase transition
  •
    Nonlinear THz Control of the Lead Halide Perovskite Lattice
    Twisting Under the Stroboscope
  •
    Orbital-resolved Observation of Singlet Fission by Momentum Microscopy
    One photon in, two electrons out…
  •
    Ralph Ernstorfer
    Ralph Ernstorfer was appointed as a Max Planck Fellow in November 2022
  •
    Imaging Coherent Lattice Vibrations
    on the Nanoscale
    Coherent phonons in ZnO films probed by ultrafast time-resolved STM
  •
    Sebastian Maehrlein receives prestigious
    Emmy Noether grant
    His research group will investigate actively steering of lattice angular momentum for ultrafast control of material properties.
    Research
    Research in the Department of Physical Chemistry focusses on the dynamics of elementary processes in solids and at surfaces, in particular, ultrafast dynamics of electronic excitations, electron-phonon coupling and interfacial charge transfer, surface reactions and molecular processes at interfaces as well as light-matter interaction at the nanoscale.
    Events & Seminars
    Mon., 4 Dec. 2023, 9:15 am  -  Joint Workshop  -  Room G 2.06
    Joint Workshop on Emerging Techniques of Nanospectroscopy Based on Scanning Probe Microscopy, 09.15am - 3.45pm
    Mon., 4 Dec. 2023, 9:15 am  -  Joint Workshop  -  Room G 2.06
    Joint Workshop on Emerging Techniques of Nanospectroscopy Based on Scanning Probe Microscopy, 09.15am - 3.45pm
     
    Thu., 7 Dec. 2023, 3:00 pm  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Pranoti Kshirsagar
    (The Science Talk)
    Under the Microscope - Spotlighting Materials & Nano Science
    Thu., 7 Dec. 2023, 3:00 pm  -  Special Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Under the Microscope - Spotlighting Materials & Nano Science
    Pranoti Kshirsagar 
    (The Science Talk)
    Mon., 22 Jan. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Francesco Grandi
    (Technische Hochschule Aachen)
    Ultrafast Dynamics in a Photo-induced Symmetry-breaking Transition
    Mon., 22 Jan. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Ultrafast Dynamics in a Photo-induced Symmetry-breaking Transition
    Francesco Grandi 
    (Technische Hochschule Aachen)
    Mon., 12 Feb. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Clara Saraceno
    (Ruhr University Bochum)
    Department Seminar - tba
    Mon., 12 Feb. 2024, 11:00 am  -  Department Seminar  -  Room G 2.06
    Department Seminar - tba
    Clara Saraceno 
    (Ruhr University Bochum)
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