The Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award recognizes young researchers for their outstanding talent and research in surface science. The award has been sponsored since 2010 by Elsevier and is awarded to the winner of a competition between 5 selected nominees, which present their work with an invited talk in a special session at the DPG Spring Meeting of the Surface Science Division. Niclas S. Müller wins the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award 2025 with a talk entitled “Imaging Infrared [more...]

Terahertz cavity electrodynamics is an emerging research area, offering exciting new opportunities for research of light-matter interactions. In a new experimental work, researchers leverage electro-optic sampling to directly measure electromagnetic fields inside of a macroscopic planar cavity for the first time.
Unlike conventional cavities, which rely on external substrates that introduce interferences and dispersive effects, the cavities in this work are produced by depositing mirrors directly onto [more...]