2023

FWF Cluster of Excellence: Highly competitive funding for TU Wien, opens an external URL in a new window: Funded by the FWF, a Cluster of Excellence led by TU Wien is being created for research into materials for the energy transition. TU Wien is also involved in two other clusters.

A Motion Freezer for Particles, opens an external URL in a new window: Tailor-made laser light fields can be used to slow down the motion of several particles and thus cool them down to extremely low temperatures - as demonstrated by a team from TU Wien.

ERC Grant for Andreas Grüneis, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Prof. Andreas Grüneis from TU Wien is developing new methods to calculate the properties of materials. He has now received an ERC Consolidator Grant for this work.

Several FWF Grants for TU Vienna, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Seven ESPRIT grants and an Elise Richter Fellowship go to researchers at TU Vienna.

2022

Physics: TU Vienna Twice Among the Top 10, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): "Physics World" selected the ten greatest scientific breakthroughs in physics in 2022 - the TU Vienna is represented twice.

Chaos Gives the Quantum World a Temperature, opens an external URL in a new window: Two seemingly completely different areas of physics are subtly connected: Quantum theory and thermodynamics. How chaos theory mediates between them has now been investigated at the TU Vienna.

Excellent Students at TU Vienna, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Walter Kuba and Ayse Nur Koyun received awards for their outstanding dissertations, Florian Lindenbauer was honored for his master's thesis. ...

A Doctoral College for 2D Materials, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Completely new phenomena are becoming possible with 2D materials - they are the central topic of the doctoral college "TU-D" at TU Vienna, which is now being continued with funding from the FWF.

How to Shoot Through Materials Without Breaking Anything, opens an external URL in a new window: When you shoot charged particles through ultrathin layers of material, sometimes spectacular micro-explosions occur, sometimes the material remains almost intact. This has now been explained at the Vienna University of Technology.

A Perfect Trap for Light, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): At TU Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a "light trap" was developed in which a beam of light prevents itself from escaping. This allows light to be perfectly absorbed.

Waves in the Maze of no Return, opens an external URL in a new window: From mobile phones to cloudy glass panes: annoying reflections often interfere with the unhindered propagation of waves. TU Vienna and the University of Rennes present an amazing solution to this problem in the journal "Nature".

A Black Hole as a Silver Coin, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): In cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology, the Austrian Mint has produced a very special silver coin. Two public lectures in July provide insight into the physics of black holes.

How Best to Bend Spacetime, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Has relativity been formulated in an unnecessarily complicated way so far? New calculations from the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna underscore the importance of one of Roger Penrose's ideas.

The Maximum Speed of Quanta, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Semiconductor electronics is getting faster and faster - but at some point, physics no longer allows any increase. The shortest possible time scale of optoelectronic phenomena has now been investigated.

Donuts and Laser Beams, opens an external URL in a new window: In materials research, great success is achieved by using insights from topology. Similar tools can now be applied to lasers.

Artificial Intelligence for Particle Physics, opens an external URL in a new window (German only): Can machine learning be used to uncover the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma? Yes - but only with sophisticated new methods.