The app "phyphox" turns your smartphone into a physics lab. With the newly released version 1.1.11, 3D depth sensors are now supported in addition to the previously usable multiple smartphone sensors. The idea for the app came from JARA-FIT scientists Prof. Christoph Stampfer and Dr. Sebastian Staacks from the II Institute of Physics at RWTH Aachen University. Together with PhD students and undergraduate students, the two scientists developed "phyphox" in 2016.
One year after its launch, Germany’s largest hydrogen infrastructure project, which is coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich, celebrated its official opening in the town of Jülich’s Brainergy Park on 12 September 2022. The founding director is JARA-ENERGY member Prof. Peter Wasserscheid.
During the past two years, life worldwide was determined by the Corona pandemic. Staying at home and reducing contacts were the effective methods to reduce the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Due to these necessary measures, not only the exchange within the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance came to a standstill. For this reason, the JARA Day 2022 focused on exchange.
In a festive ceremony, JARA senior professor Knut Urban was awarded the Kavli Prize for Nanoscience. The former director of the Jülich Institute for Microstructure Research and the Ernst Ruska Center for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons already received the award in May 2020, together with Prof. Harald Rose (University of Ulm), Prof. Maximilian Haider (CEOS GmbH, Heidelberg) and Prof. Ondrej Krivanek (Nion Company, Seattle). The official award ceremony took place today in Oslo.
Tiny magnetic vortex structures in materials, called skyrmions, form a basis for innovative concepts for information processing with higher performance and less energy consumption. Furthermore, skyrmions influence the electronic and thermodynamic properties of a material. Jülich scientists, together with colleagues at RWTH Aachen University and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, have now experimentally demonstrated anti-skyrmions for the first time.
