Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2024-12-31

A new generation of superluminous X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will deliver billions of exposures per day at intensities up to 100-times higher than intensities available from existing XFELs. The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

A key insight from quantum mechanics is the importance of processes involving electron rearrangement, such as charge transfer (CT) in collisions between atoms. In dilute plasmas such as those often observed ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Emergent phenomena, such as insulator to metal transitions, magnetism and superconductivity, often occur in materials where many degrees of freedom are strongly coupled to each other. To understand, and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-07-01 till 2022-06-30

The proposed research aims to develop a new physico-chemical investigation technique able to detect intermediates of electrocatalytic reactions. Electrochemical Induced Raman Spectroscopy, couples electrochemistry ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The project studies the feasibility of incoherent diffractive imaging - a brand new method to determine atomic and electronic structure of condensed matter and molecules. It uses ultrashort and intense ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Understanding x-ray radiation damage is a crucial issue for medical applications of x-rays, as well as for x-ray free-electron-laser science aimed at molecular imaging. Biomaterials mostly consist of low-Z ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Miljögasövervakning och tidig varning av skadliga ångor lockar alltmer uppmärksamhet på olika områden. Som ett lovande sensingmaterial har grafen väckt forskarnas stora entusiasmer på grund av sina enastående ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The cosmic origin of elements beyond iron in the periodic table is a long standing puzzle. As such, one of the main astrophysical highlights of the last decade is without doubt the indication of rapid ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-07-01 till 2021-06-30

The aim of this project is to enhance solar cell efficiencies by developing materials that can absorb one high energy photon and re-emit two photons of half the energy. This photon converting material ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

In recent years we have witnessed substantial methodological progress in detection of magnetism at nano-scale, utilizing transmission electron microscopy. Innovation originated to a large extent from theoretical ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Metasurfaces are arrays of nanometer-sized islands modulating the behavior of light and shaping optical wavefronts. While the promise of such designer flat optical components is substantial, significant ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

New forms of energy from clean sources and sustainable production are needed on the global scale. A promising route makes use of sunlight towards scalable approaches to renewable solar fuels. Artificial ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

This project aims at understanding photochemical C-H bond activation with metal complexes. The idea is to use various time-resolved x-ray spectroscopic methods to detect and characterize at an unprecedented ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Single particle imaging using subpicosecond intense pulses from X-ray lasers has been identified as a path to obtain high-resolution images of proteins or viruses, without the need of crystallization. ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The important role of globins to human health has attracted a large body of research. However, the existing research does not emphasize the fundamental redox chemistry and identify the early-time intermediates ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2021-12-31

Resonant Inelastic Soft X-ray Scattering (RIXS) and related experiments are applied to atoms, molecules, liquids and molecular materials. The most important assets of the RIXS process include Ångström-scale ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Quantum computation is a form of information processing that promises efficient solution of certain computationally demanding problems and will play an important role in simulation of complex quantum systems ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The goal of this project is to demonstrate spin- and valley-polarized states in the conduction band of ultra-pure single-crystalline diamond. These states could act as flying qubits and mediate well-defined ...