The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) is a partner in CFEL and researches the structure and atomic and electronic movements of matter using ultra-short flashes of light. To this end, the institute uses the unique variety of high-power radiation sources on the Bahrenfeld research campus.
In addition to the CFEL building, the new MPSD research building has been another building with state-of-the-art vibration-decoupled physical measuring rooms and chemistry laboratories since the end of 2022.
With the establishment of a new department, research into quantum materials is moving further into the institute's research focus. The transformation from phone to smartphone was made possible by the development of highly complex electronic nanostructures in special semiconductors.
The new department's research focuses on the production of microelectronic prototypes in the search for new electronic quantum phenomena and the extension of microelectronics to a wide range of materials.
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Since its foundation in 2014, the MPSD has shared a cooperation building, the neighboring Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), with the Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY and the University of Hamburg. Some areas of the institute remain at the CFEL, but the new extension building now makes it possible to establish new departments and research groups.
With the MPSD, the MPI for Meteorology and the MPI for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg is home to three of the currently 84 institutes of the Max Planck Society (MPG). They conduct world-class basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities.