The Department of Physics Is Participating in Major Projects of the German Research Foundation
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The CRC was approved by the German Research Foundation in 2013 – initially for four years – and awarded funding of around € 10 million. The first extension by a further four years was announced in 2018. Transregio 142 is now entering its third phase. The project combines Paderborn University’s expertise in the areas of photonic materials and quantum optics with that of TU Dortmund University in the field of nonlinear spectroscopy.
“The renewed extension will enable us to further advance fundamental research in the fields of optoelectronics and photonics and in this way develop concepts and applications that can contribute, for example, to faster, more efficient and above all more secure communication,” says Professor Christine Silberhorn, CRC spokesperson from the Department of Physics in Paderborn.
“Over the last eight years, we’ve continuously expanded the partnership between Paderborn and Dortmund on the basis of our complementary expertise. We’re very pleased that this, as well as our plans for the next four years, has been acknowledged by the reviewers once again,” says Professor Manfred Bayer, local CRC spokesperson and president of TU Dortmund University.
Photons: Great potential
Thanks to their special properties, photons – small light particles that make up electromagnetic radiation – are seen as the key to a new generation of IT systems. For example, special methods for creating and configuring photons have the potential in the future to deliver new concepts for information coding.
The researchers are working on tailored photonic systems with innovative functionalities. The goal is to advance research activities away from the fundamentals of light and material physics and towards concrete applications. Here, the CRC team is pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to create innovative photonic systems. Critical technologies, on which the development is based, are introduced step by step and transferred from basic research to application.
Apart from Professor Manfred Bayer, Dr. Ilya Akimov, Professor Marc Aßmann, Professor Mirko Cinchetti, Professor Christoph Lange, Dr. Claudia Ruppert, Dr. Alexey Scherbakov and Professor Dmitri Yakovlev are also participating in CRC 142 on behalf of TU Dortmund University.
Physicists from TU Dortmund University are also participating in the new CRC 1491 hosted by RUB
The German Research Foundation has also decided to establish the new CRC 1491, for which RUB is the speaker university. Despite all the progress made in the field of astrophysics, the interaction between cosmic radiation and matter remains insufficiently explored. As a consequence, the Collaborative Research Center “Interaction of Cosmic Matter – From Source to Signal” wants to systematically explore the interaction between matter and energy, with a special focus on energy transfer between magnetic fields, cosmic rays, thermal plasmas and dark matter. In this way, it aims to contribute to deciphering the fundamental properties of matter in the Universe. Sixteen researchers want to understand how small galaxies such as our Milky Way work, but also large ones with an active, supermassive black hole at their core. To do so, theoretical astrophysical models are combined with experimental observations of all wavelengths and particles. The CRC also delivers insights into the fundamental properties of matter through theoretical calculations, cosmological observations and terrestrial experiments on particle interactions. Spokesperson is Professor Julia Tjus from RUB.
Four physicists from TU Dortmund University are contributing their expertise in particle and astroparticle physics to the new CRC 1491: Professor Johannes Albrecht, Dr. Dominik Elsässer, Professor Wolfgang Rhode and Professor Bernhard Spaan.
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