Quantum materials studied by Alexey Chernikov and his team are only a few atoms thin. Due to extremely strong interactions in these systems, electrons come together to form new states known as ...

Excitons are being explored in materials science and information technology as a means of storing light. These luminous quasiparticles move through individual layers of quantum materials and can ...

Alexey Chernikov and his team specialize in detecting optical quasiparticles using ultrafast microscopy. Together with international colleagues, they recently visualized a completely new quantum ...

Alexey Chernikov and his team specialize in detecting optical quasiparticles using ultrafast microscopy. Together with international colleagues, they recently visualized a completely new quantum ...

(Nanowerk News) A highly unusual movement of light emitting particles in atomically-thin semiconductors was experimentally confirmed by scientists from the Würzburg–Dresden Cluster of Excellence ...

A research team has detected optical quasiparticles on the surface of an antiferromagnetic quantum material for the very first time. (Nanowerk News) Alexey Chernikov and his team specialize in ...

A Dresden-based research team from the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat has discovered a novel transport phenomenon. They found that luminescent quasiparticles can be carried along by magnetic ...