DEPARTMENT OF
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Director: Martin Wolf
Emeritus: Gerhard Ertl
Research Groups
Atomic-Scale Microscopy & Spectroscopy
Akitoshi Shiotari
Nanoscale Surface Chemistry
Takashi Kumagai
THz Structural Dynamics
Sebastian Maehrlein
Ultrafast Scanning Probe Microscopy
Melanie Müller
Lattice Dynamics
Alex Paarmann
Nonlinear Interfacial Spectroscopy
Martin Thämer
Emmy Noether Group
Dynamics of Correlated Materials
Laurenz Rettig
Associated Groups
Electron Dynamiχ
A. Julia Stähler (also at HU-Berlin)
Structural & Electronic Surface Dynamics
Ralph Ernstorfer (also at TU-Berlin)
Terahertz Physics
Tobias Kampfrath (also at FU-Berlin)
Support Group
Technicians Group
Marcel Krenz
Former Groups
link to Former Groups
Events & Seminars
Mon., 24 Jan. 2022, 11:00 am - Seminar Link - Department Online Seminar
Dr. Joshua Caldwell
(Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Strong Coupling and Extreme Anisotropy in Infrared Polaritonic Media
Mon., 24 Jan. 2022, 11:00 am - Seminar Link - Department Online Seminar
Strong Coupling and Extreme Anisotropy in Infrared Polaritonic Media
Dr. Joshua Caldwell 
(Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
News
  • Happy birthday Gerhard Ertl
    The department congratulates our emeritus, Prof. Gerhard Ertl, Nobel laureate in chemistry, on his 85th birthday
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    Nuclear dynamics of singlet exciton fission in pentacene single crystals
    Femtosecond electron diffraction experiments probe the molecular motions accompanying singlet exciton fission in single crystal pentacene
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    Ralph Ernstorfer becomes Professor at Technische Universität Berlin
    He has been appointed as Professor at the Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik of the Technische Universität Berlin on June 1st 2021
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    Nonequilibrium Charge-Density-Wave Order Beyond the Thermal Limit
    Coherent charge density wave dynamics unravel the underlying transient energy landscape and a stabilization of order in the nonthermal system.
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    Terahertz anisotropic magnetoresistance
    Measuring ultrafast electron motion in magnets reveals that anisotropic magnetoresistance not only arises from electron collisions.
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    Ultrafast dynamical Lifshitz transition
    Ultrafast topological phase transition: Demonstration of light-induced modulation of a Fermi surface topology
    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., 24 Jan. 2022, 11:00 am - Seminar Link - Department Online Seminar
    Dr. Joshua Caldwell
    (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
    Strong Coupling and Extreme Anisotropy in Infrared Polaritonic Media
    Mon., 24 Jan. 2022, 11:00 am - Seminar Link - Department Online Seminar
    Strong Coupling and Extreme Anisotropy in Infrared Polaritonic Media
    Dr. Joshua Caldwell 
    (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
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