RESEARCH USER ACCESS (S) INDUSTRY CAREER ABOUT US QUICK START DE seek Home › Walter Schottky Prize for Felix Büttner Subjects: Careers (98)BESSY II (349)Prices (22)Spintronics (116)Quantum Materials (65) NEWS 11/18/2021 Walter Schottky Prize for Felix Büttner Dr. Felix Büttner heads a Helmholtz junior research group on “Topological Solitons” at the HZB. © private The Walter Schottky Prize honors outstanding work by young physicists in solid-state research. For the year 2022, the award goes to the HZB physicist Dr. Felix Büttner for his pioneering work in the field of magnetic skyrmions. "His work contributed significantly to the understanding of the ultrafast generation and the properties of these topological states." This is what it says on the website of the German Physical Society (DPG), which awards the Walter Schottky Prize. The DPG further explains: Magnetic skyrmions are spin textures that behave like quasiparticles and have a non-rivial topology. Felix Büttner has made a decisive contribution to the fundamental understanding of the dynamics of skyrmions, taking their topology into account. He used time-resolved X-ray holography and scattering experiments on X-ray lasers to elucidate the mechanisms of the generation of skyrmions by short laser pulses and to improve the possibilities for fast and efficient movement of skyrmions by current pulses in conductor structures. Felix Büttner studied in Göttingen and received his doctorate in 2013 for his work at the interface between magnetism (Mathias Kläui, JGU Mainz) and X-ray physics (Stefan Eisebitt, TU Berlin). After working in industry at Daimler AG, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with GSD Beach from 2015-2020. Since 2020 he has been leading an independent research group at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy. The award is expected to be presented in March 2022 during the DPG spring conference in Regensburg. DPG / red. Left Walter Schottky Prize on the DPG website You might also be interested in SCIENCE HIGHLIGHT 11/25/2021 Neutron data reveal ghostly entanglement in quantum magnets Anhand von Messdaten an der britischen Neutronenquelle ISIS aus dem Jahr 2000 haben Forschungsteams nun einen Beleg für die geisterhafte Fernwirkung entdeckt, mit der magnetische Teilchen oder Spins in einem Quantenmaterial miteinander verschränkt sind. An der Auswertung war auch ein Team des HZB unter Leitung von Prof. Bella Lake beteiligt. SCIENCE HIGHLIGHT 16.11.2021 „Grüne“ Chemie: Einblicke in die mechanochemische Synthese an BESSY II In der Mechanochemie werden die Reagenzien fein gemahlen und gemischt, so dass sie sich auch ohne Lösungsmittel zum gewünschten Produkt verbinden. Durch den Verzicht auf Lösungsmittel könnte diese Technologie in Zukunft einen wichtigen Beitrag zur "grünen", umweltfreundlichen Herstellung von Chemikalien leisten. Allerdings gibt es noch große Lücken im Verständnis der Schlüsselprozesse, die bei der mechanischen Behandlung und Reaktion ablaufen. Ein internationales Team unter Leitung der Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung (BAM) hat nun an BESSY II eine Methode entwickelt, um diese Prozesse in situ mit Röntgenstreuung zu beobachten. NACHRICHT 12.11.2021 RadioEins - Die Profis live aus dem HZB The science magazine "Die Profis" from RadioEins with Stepfan Karkowsky broadcasts live from the control room of our BESSY II synchrotron, Saturday, November 13th, 2021, 9-12 a.m. <NEWSROOM > RSS NEWS FEED CONTACT IMPRINT DATA PROTECTION EASY LANGUAGE ACCESSIBILITY NEWSLETTER MY INTRANET up Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1 14109 Berlin Germany Fon: +49 30 8062 - 0 Fax: +49 30 8062 - 42181 E-Mail: info@helmholtz-berlin.de Press releases Visitor Purchasing (tenders)