When crystals consist of only a single layer, they often exhibit strange properties. The Quantum Materials working group makes the two-dimensional semiconductors glow - a first step towards future, tiny laser light sources.

Physicist Jan Vogelsang has been accepted into the renowned Emmy Noether Programme run by the German Research Foundation. Vogelsang can now establish his own junior research group.

Physicist Martin Esmann has been awarded a "Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship" by the university for his research. The researcher is investigating vibrations in solids.

The new "Offshore Megastructures" Collaborative Research Centre is developing concepts for massive offshore wind turbines. In two sub-projects, Oldenburg researchers are investigating rotor designs and wind conditions at high altitudes.

Physicist Jan Vogelsang uses innovative laser systems to study ultrafast processes. The University has awarded him a Carl von Ossietzky Young Researchers' Fellowship for his work.

Getting children and young people interested in science and technology - that is the aim of the MINT Cluster NordWest. Physics didactics expert Michael Komorek plays a key role in the project, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education.

Can wind farms be treated as collective systems similar to insect swarms? Physicist and Ossietzky Fellow Michael Sinhuber is combining swarm and turbulence research with the goal of optimising wind farm control.

For the third time in four years, the 2020 Nobel Prize went to gravitational physics. Oldenburg expert Jutta Kunz explains why she finds nothing more exciting than black holes, neutron stars and gravitational waves.

Turbulence is an omnipresent phenomenon – and one of the great mysteries of physics. A research team from Oldenburg has now succeeded in generating realistic storm turbulence in the wind tunnel of the Center for Wind Energy Research (ForWind).

Nanoparticles made of metals and semiconductors have fascinating properties. A German-Swedish research team reports in the journal Nature Communications how a new material increases light emission.