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February 2011 - News
Prof. Zacharias publishes electronic spin filtering project in 'Science' magazine
In the latest issue of science CeNTech researchers and their colleagues from the Weizmann-Institute in Israel jointly report a new efficient method for electronic spin filtering using self-assembled monolayers of double-stranded DNA on gold. This new method may have a huge impact on the ability to store and process information on computers and therefore was protected as a patent application.
Dec 14, 2010 - News
CeNTech laser expert at the childrens' university
The university of Münster and the daily newspaper 'Westfälische Nachrichten' organize the so called 'childrens university' in periodical intervals. This time the CeNTech professor Helmut Zacharias impressed the juniors with laser light, his area of specification.
December 06, 2010 - News
Dr. Daniel Wegner nominated member of the "Junges Kolleg"
The "Junge Kolleg", one of the largest and highly reknowned programs for the support of young academics in North Rhine-Westphalia welcomed 15 new members. Among them the physicist Dr. Daniel Wegner, group leader of the Emmy Noether junior research group for Nanophysics in the Physical Institute and the interdisciplinary Centre for Nanotechnology (CeNTech) at the University of Münster. At the official ceremony on the 18th of January the North Rhine-Westphalia-science minister Svenja Schulze will also be present. This admission is a remarkable honor. Up to now 18 of 35 admitted members have accepted the call on a professorship. The members receive an annual scholarship of 10,000 Euros as well as an intensive technical and scientific supervision of their research projects for four years.
October 11, 2010 - News
Scientists investigate the potential of graphene
Some days ago Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov received the Nobel prize for physics in 2010 for their groundbreaking experiments regarding the two dimensional material graphene. Nearly at the same time a nationwide main programme (SPP 1459) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) starts which involves about 40 working groups. Among them the CeNTech physicists from the Prof. Dr. Helmut Zacharias group who closely work together with the working group of Prof. Dr. Lifeng Chi (also CeNTech). The scientists examine certain dynamic processes within the electronic structure of graphene. For this purpose they use highly specified femtosecond laser systems. Thus the researchers can draw conclusions from the conductivity of the graphene. This knowledge can, for example, be used to generate new conductors, that might open up undreamt-of possibilities thanks to that new technology.
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