News and Events
Welcome to our News and Events section. The subcategories provide latest news, an overview of upcoming and past events and conferences, and articles published in the press about the Materials Chain network.
Latest News
Pushing the frontier of photonic quantum hardware
The project team aims to lay the foundation for future scalable photonic quantum technologies.
Scalable quantum information technology that processes information according to the laws of quantum mechanics is one of the main goals of current quantum physics research. Such quantum technologies can solve problems, which are impossible with the technology of today. In a new project, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum will join forces... read more
Light switch for electrons
Researchers create conductive interface in nickelate materials
UV light can be used to switch an extremely conductive state on and off at the interface between two oxide materials - in a matter of seconds. This newly discovered "light switch for electrons" marks a milestone on the way to light-controlled electronics and could also be used in superconductivity in the future. The journal Nature Materials reports. Part of the international team are Materials Chain... read more
Quantum noise tamed in the tunnel effect
When disruptions become useful
What is usually considered a disturbance can be surprisingly useful under certain conditions: noise. Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen have shown how the random noise caused by the quantum mechanical tunnel effect - a phenomenon that is also the focus of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics - can be specifically influenced. The results, which have now been published in Communications Physics,... read more
Upcoming Events
- 20Nov
2025 The sustainability crisis and the role of the scientist
Prof Jürgen Rödel, TU Darmstadt
RUB, ZGH seminar room 03-121 - 20Nov
2025 The sustainability crisis and the role of the scientist
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, ZGH 03-121 - more
