Congratulations to Daisuke Takegami for his successful application for a DFG Walter Benjamin Fellowship. During his 24-month research stay at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan with Prof. Mizokawa, which he will begin in September, he will work on “Systematic HAXPES study of transition metal/Pb/Bi-based energy materials”.
MPI CPfS end station located at the Taiwan beamline in SPring8 (Japan): 1) Vertical MBS analyzer; 2) Horizontal MBS analyzer; 3) KB mirror and monochromator; 4) 4-axes cryomanipulator; 5) Preparation Chamber
MPI CPfS end station located at the Taiwan beamline in SPring8 (Japan): 1) Vertical MBS analyzer; 2) Horizontal MBS analyzer; 3) KB mirror and monochromator; 4) 4-axes cryomanipulator; 5) Preparation Chamber
A new member of the Kagome metal family that overcomes long-standing geometric constraints has been discovered and studied by an international research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS). The results, published in Nature Materials, introduce the compound TbTi₃Bi₄ as a model system for designing next-generation quantum materials with highly tunable magnetic and electronic properties.
In collaboration with scientists in Germany, EPFL researchers have demonstrated that the spiral geometry of tiny, twisted magnetic tubes can be leveraged to transmit data based on quasiparticles called magnons, rather than electrons.
We warmly congratulate Francisco Lieberich on winning a poster award at this year's conference “Current Trends in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Systems” (SCF25).
At the beginning of the 2025/26 winter semester, two of our scientists won important scientific promotions. Coincidentally, both are named Elena: Elena Hassinger and Elena Gati. We congratulate both of them on their appointments to full W3 professorships.
Congratulations to Hilary Noad, who has received the Wilhelm Heraeus Junior Visiting Professorship for Physics 2025, awarded by the President of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.
An international team led by researchers at MPI-CPfS used irradiation with extremely high-energy electrons to controllably introduce atomic defects in superconducting nickelate thin films. Their systematic investigation recently published in Physical Review Letters helps to narrow down the possible answers to fundamental questions of how superconductivity emerges in these materials.
Claudia Felser, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, received the ‘E-MRS Professor Jan Czochralski Award 2025’ for her contributions and achievements in materials science.
Jordan Tierney, a recent graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States), has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to conduct research at MPI CPfS.
An international team led by MPI-CPfS researchers has provided experimental evidence of bulk altermagnetism in MnTe. Using resonant X-ray nanoimaging, they resolved magnetic domains and confirmed their altermagnetic nature, establishing a powerful tool for future 3D and real-time studies of magnetic textures.