Monthly Archives: July 2026

I was invited to give a talk at the 16th International Symposium on Atomic LevelCharacterizations for New Materials and Devices ’26 in Taiwan this November. If you are also at the conference, please come by and let’s have a chat.

Measuring magnetic fields and their orientation in space reliably in a self-calibrated fashion is not an easy task. In our recently accepted patent, we show how highly-excited Rydberg atoms can provide exactly this in a compact fashion.

If you diffract electrons or neutrons through a material, they are typically interacting only weakly with the specimen. This is very convenient as it allows you to make a number of simplifying assumptions. However, as soon as you leave known … Continue reading →