News - Institute of Physics

Measuring light beams with integrated photonics. Image: Uni Graz/Bütow

Monday, 22 August 2022

Light measurements, integrated

As part of the European research project SuperPixels a group of scientists around Peter Banzer presented a novel method to measure light. They…

Illustration der Photoemissions-Orbital-Tomographie: Elektronen werden aus einem Sigma-Orbital (gelb) des Nanographene-Moleküls C28H14 (schwarz) herausgelöst, und deren Winkelverteilung wird gemessen (rot). Bild: P. Puschnig/Uni Graz

Friday, 22 July 2022

Alles im Blick (German only)

Neues Verfahren bildet Molekülorbitale umfassend ab

Urknall - künstlerische Darstellung. Bild: pixabay

Tuesday, 19 July 2022

Zukunftsreich (German only)

Expertise der Uni Graz ist am Kernforschungszentrum CERN gefragt

Winner of the best poster and best presentation awards: Robert Schwarzl and Peter Oles (Image: M. Aichhorn)

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Doctoral seminar physics 2022

Ph.D. candidates from TU and Uni Graz presented their research areas in the framework of the doctoral seminar on July 1st 2022.

James Webb Telescope - Foto: NASA/Chris Gunn

Monday, 11 July 2022

First images from the James Webb Telescope

On July 12th the time has finally come, the first images from the James Webb telescope will be published.

Monday, 11 July 2022

Digital Media in Teacher Education

Publication in the Journal Education Sciences

Anton-Schelnast-Preise 2022. Foto: UniGraz/Schwarz

Tuesday, 05 July 2022

Ausgezeichnet (German only)

Vier Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Instituts für Physik wurden für ihre Leistungen mit einem Anton-Schelnast Preis belohnt.

Influence of the size of the Higgs (solid line) on the interaction rate of Z-bosons and W-bosons, in comparison to a point-like Higgs (dashed line) (top panel absolute and bottom panel relative). Red is the theoretical uncertainty. Image: Creat.Comm.Lic.

Friday, 01 July 2022

Suverying the Higgs

10 years after the discovery of the Higgs first theoretical estimates of its size are available.

Heißeste Nacht seit Beginn der Messungen in Graz. Foto: pixabay

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Heiße Nächte in Graz (German only)

Graz erlebt heißeste Nacht seit Beginn der Messungen.

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Physics meets Uni-Pop-Up-Store

DIY spectrometers, artistic science, neutron stars, and a science quiz – Science snacks presented by the Institute of Physics at the Uni-Pop-Up-Store.

Lukas Steinwender durchforstet mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz den Sternenhimmel nach Mustern - dank eines prestigeträchtigen Stipendiums bald in den USA. Foto: Steinwender.

Friday, 17 June 2022

Himmelsmuster (German only)

Lukas Steinwender erforscht das Innere bestimmter Sterne, dank eines begehrten Stipendiums bald in den USA

The figure shows the periods and the eccentricity of the orbits of the already known (black triangles) and the 99 newly found binary star systems (red circles). Image: Uni Graz/Beck et al. (2022, A6A accepted)

Wednesday, 08 June 2022

Good vibrations of red giant stars

A new publication led by Paul Beck and his team reports on the successful hunt for oscillating stars in binary star systems.