The Institute of Applied Physics hosted a spooky get-together on October 31. The secretary's office served up the food and rewarded creative costumes…

Anna Niggas has received a special distinction that is only awarded to a few doctoral students: the “promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis”.

On September 27, 2024, a special alumni meeting took place to mark the formal retirement of Professor Aumayr. The event, held in the Festsaal of TU…

TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in generating laser-synchronised ion pulses with a duration of well under 500 picoseconds, which can be used to observe…

On July 1, Richard Wilhelm was promoted to full professor in ion physics. We congratulate him on his success!

Slow electrons are used in cancer therapy as well as in microelectronics. It is very hard to observe how they behave in solids. But scientists at TU…

During the last experiments at the European experimental reactor JET in Culham (UK) before its decommissioning, fusion energy was generated at…

Tiny structures made of gold can be specifically manipulated by ion bombardment at TU Wien (Vienna) – surprisingly, the decisive factor is not the…

Wenn man geladene Teilchen durch ultradünne Materialschichten schießt, entstehen manchmal spektakuläre Mikro-Explosionen, manchmal bleibt das Material…

For fusion reactors like ITER, plasma instabilities are a major challenge. A research team around the nuclear fusion group at TU Wien has now found a…