News & Highlights

Here you will find current news and highlights from the areas of research.

 

Ultrafast Plasmon-Enhanced Magnetic Bit Switching at the Nanoscale

Researchers from Max Born Institute have demonstrated a successful way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits — the building blocks of…

New research unit to study the generation, transport and detection of chiral phonons

Spintronics is already widely used in data storage, sensor technology and, increasingly, in communication technology. Many of our cars and cell phones…

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in vacuum. However, in so-called…