Photographers use iris diaphragms to control the amount of incoming light and to set the depth of field. Due to their size and energy consumption, conventional diaphragms have limitations: they cannot be used in mini cameras like those in smartphones or tablets. The situation is different with micro…

What happens in cells precisely at the nanoscale remains a mystery for research so far. How are structures, such as membranes and enzyme complexes, arranged within a cell? How does a cell know where front, back, bottom, and top are? How are spatially and temporally coordinated structures formed? The…

Research understands diffusion as a process in which tiny particles spread evenly in a gas or liquid. Although these media consist of individual particles, diffusion is perceived as a continuous process. Effects of a single collision between particles, the fundamental building block of diffusion, ha…

On the campus of the Technical University (TU) Kaiserslautern, a new research building is being constructed by 2020. In the Laboratory for Advanced Spin Engineering, or LASE, researchers from physics, chemistry, and engineering sciences will delve into the fundamentals of spin phenomena. These pheno…