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Ultra short laser pulses: Audrius Pugzlys in the Laser Lab of the Photonics Institute

At the Vienna University of Technology, a very special kind of bright coherent x-ray radiation has been created by an international team of scientists. The new method was…

SMT-Image of the iron-oxide surface - with gold atoms on top

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology found a method to locate single gold atoms on a surface. This should pave the way to better and cheaper catalysts.

Markus Kitzler (left) und Xinhua Xie

Atomic processes take place on extremely short time scales. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now visualize these processes.

Two coupled microlasers

New laser-effect, discovered by scientists from the Vienna University of Technology, Princeton, Yale and ETH Zurich: If coupled, lasers can switch each other off, leading to a…

A bright laser beam hits the sample, the scattered light is collected by a telescope.

Scientists at Vienna University of Technology have found a way to detect chemicals over long distances, even if they are enclosed in containers.