The Kaiserslautern doctoral student Qi Wang has received the "2018 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad." The award is considered the highest honor awarded by the Chinese government to doctoral students studying abroad. Wang conducts research in the Magnetism Chair…

From Monday, March 25th, to Wednesday, March 27th, international scientists will gather on the campus of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK). The focus of the conference is the physics of so-called Rydberg atoms. These atoms can be larger than bacteria and interact strongly with their e…

Chloroplasts are the site of photosynthesis and belong to the plastids, of which there are many types with different functions. Plastids of one type can differentiate into other types. With Kaiserslautern biologist Dr. Raphael Trösch, researchers from Oxford have for the first time shown how membran…

Thanks to new technology, it is possible to retain individual atoms, move them in a targeted manner or change their condition. Kaiserslautern physicists also work with this system. In a recent study, they investigated the consequences of the collision of two atoms in a weak magnetic field at low tem…

Microorganisms play a key role in ecosystems: they quickly indicate when changes occur in their environment. However, because they are difficult to identify, they have so far played a subordinate role in environmental monitoring. Together with researchers from the University of Geneva, Kaiserslauter…

To provide precise data, measuring devices must be calibrated regularly. Test bodies, known as standards, help provide reference values and thus assess the accuracy of the measuring device. Even in surface-based measurement techniques, which are less widespread due to their incomplete standardizatio…

Proteins fulfill many functions in our cells: they are involved in metabolic pathways, regulate nutrient transport, or act as signaling molecules. With the help of mass spectrometers, it is now possible to determine the entire set of proteins, the proteome, of a cell. This technique is also used at…

What happens when reading word problems and viewing physics diagrams? This is the focus of the team led by Junior Professor Dr. Pascal Klein in the group of Professor Jochen Kuhn from the Physics Didactics department at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK). They use eye-tracking, a techn…

To produce active pharmaceutical ingredients such as antibiotics, microorganisms are interesting as tiny factories for industry. The fundamental process engineering principles necessary for the production of such substances are to be conveyed to doctoral students by the new research college "iProces…

Impurities in materials are responsible for the colors of gemstones or the performance capabilities of modern semiconductors. Similar effects are observed in quantum systems, where research is still in its early stages. For the first time, physicists from Kaiserslautern have been able to controllabl…