After three months of space flight, the time has finally come: The first pictures of the space telescope eROSITA, which FAU also designed components for, have arrived. Scientists were able to observe the Large Magellanic Cloud with the telescope’s seven X-ray detectors. With eROSITA, astronomers can...
Universities and major IT companies have been investigating computers that store information in quantum states rather than as binary sequences for more than two decades. A research team at Google has now successfully used a quantum computer in a computing operation that would have taken thousands of...
The Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), which also includes the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics of the Department of Physics, cordially invites all interested scientists to the SAOT International Conference on...
Transistors are needed wherever current flows, and they are an indispensable component of virtually all electronic switches. In the field of power electronics, transistors are used to switch large currents. However, one side-effect is that the components heat up and energy is lost as a result. One w...
In future, electronics will be controlled via light waves instead of voltage signals: This is the goal of physicists worldwide. The advantage: Electromagnetic waves of light oscillate at the petahertz frequency. This means that future computers could be a million times faster than the current genera...
Physicists at FAU have proven that incoming light causes the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate thus influencing the direction of the flow of electrical current. They have thus found the key to an important characteristic of these crystals, which could play an important role in the development ...
Everyone knows what happens if you drop a coffee cup – it usually shatters into several pieces. Ideally, we just smile and say ‘break a thing, mend your luck’. However, the consequences of material fracture if it occurs in aeroplanes, ships or trains are far more serious and can cost lives, such as ...
An international astronomical search has now been successful as a team of researchers has located a cosmic source of energy-rich neutrinos for the first time. The search began after a single high-energy neutrino was detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope in ice in the Antarctic on 22 September 2...
Generating more electricity from solar cells and conducting further research into so-called singlet fission. This is what scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are currently working on as part of a joint research project conducted in collaboration with Argonne-Northwe...
