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Our paper introducing our newly built ultra-high vacuum system, which integrates conventional surface science techniques (e.g., low-energy electron diffraction, Auger electron spectroscopy, temperature-programmed desorption spectroscopy, etc.) with azimuthal and polarization-dependent, femtosecond time-resolved sum-frequency generation spectroscopy and scanning sum-frequency generation microscopy, was published in the Review of Scientific Instruments. It was further selected as an Editor’s Pick.

Zhipeng Huang was recognized as the CENIDE Early Career Fellow

Our latest paper, titled ‘Rubber-like elasticity in laser-driven free surface flow of a Newtonian fluid’, is out now in PNAS. We observed a rubber-like elasticity in liquid glycerol for the first time.

From 26 March to 31 March 2023 the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) will take place on the campus of the Technical University Dresden.

Our recent publication “Picosecond infrared laser driven sample delivery for simultaneous liquid-phase and gas-phase electron diffraction studies” was selected as a featured article in Structure Dynamics. It describes our home-built setup which combines a laser-driven molecular beam with a table-top femtosecond electron gun and a pulsed bright-field optical microscope.

The 31st annual conference of GCPD will be held in a hybrid format on 16th-17th September of this year at Berlin (Germany), Changchun (China) and online in parallel.

Zhipeng Huang was awarded a prestigious Joachim Herz Stiftung PIER fellowship. This scholarship was awarded before he started his PhD at DESY. It supported him to develop the large molecule source for free-electron laser experiments, which is the core part of his PhD dissertation.

Zhipeng Huang started his project at Colorado State University focused on upgrading the light beam induced current setup.