Department of Physical Chemistry - FHI Berlin

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

Science Advances, Vol. 7, no. 26, eabg0869 (2021)
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
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.

Nat Commun 12, 2499 (2021)
Terahertz anisotropic magnetoresistance

Measuring ultrafast electron motion in magnets reveals that anisotropic magnetoresistance not only arises from electron collisions.

Physical Review X 11, 021030 (2021)
Ultrafast dynamical Lifshitz transition

Ultrafast topological phase transition: Demonstration of light-induced modulation of a Fermi surface topology

Science Advances, Vol. 7, no. 17, eabd9275 (2021)
Ultrafast Generation & Decay of a Surface Metal

Low photon-flux excitation of ZnO surfaces creates surface metal on femtosecond timescale

Nature Communications 978 (2021)

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.

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