2025 Publications of the
Physical Chemistry Department

Aeschlimann, M., J.P. Bange, M. Bauer, U. Bovensiepen, H.-J. Elmers, T. Fauster, L. Gierster, U. Höfer, R. Huber, A. Li, X. Li, S. Mathias, K. Morgenstern, H. Petek, M. Reutzel, K. Rossnagel, G. Schönhense, M. Scholz, B. Stadtmüller, J. Stähler, S. Tan, B. Wang, Z. Wang and M. Weinelt: Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy at surfaces. Surface Science 753, 122631 (2025).

Carini, G., R. Niemann, N.S. Müller, M. Wolf and A. Paarmann: Surface Phonon Polariton Ellipsometry. ACS Photonics 12 (2), 792–800 (2025).

Caruso, F., M.A. Sentef, C. Attaccalite, M. Bonitz, C. Draxl, U.D. Giovannini, M. Eckstein, R. Ernstorfer, M. Fechner, M. Grüning, H. Hübener, J.-P. Joost, D.M. Juraschek, C. Karrasch, D.M. Kennes, S. Latini, I.-T. Lu, O. Neufeld, E. Perfetto, L. Rettig, R.R. Pela, A. Rubio, J.F. Rudzinski, M. Ruggenthaler, D. Sangalli, M. Schüler, S. Shallcross, S. Sharma, G. Stefanucci and P. Werner: The 2025 roadmap to ultrafast dynamics: frontiers of theoretical and computational modeling. JPhys Materials 9 (1), 012501 (2025).

Chekhov, A., Y. Behovits, J. Heitz, M.-A. Syskaki, S. Jaiswal, O. Gückstock, B. Rosinus Serrano, A. Ruge, J. Kredl, M. Wolf, M. Münzenberg, G. Jakob, M. Kläui, T. Seifert and T. Kampfrath: Distortion-free sampling of ultrabroadband terahertz electric fields by interfacial spin accumulation. Science Advances 11 (12), eadq7741 (2025).

Cherasse, M., N. Heshmati, J. Urban, F. Ünlü, M.S. Spencer, M. Frenzel, L. Perfetti, S. Mathur and S.F. Maehrlein: Enhanced Lattice Coherences and Improved Structural Stability in Quadruple A-Site Substituted Lead Bromide Perovskites. Small 21 (21), 2500977 (2025).

Das Mohapatra, B., R. Rouzegar, E. Papaioannou, T. Kampfrath and G. Schmidt: Controlling charge dynamics in nanopatterned spintronic terahertz emitters. Physical Review Applied 23 (1), 014024 (2025).

de Abajo, F.J.G., D.N. Basov, F.H.L. Koppens, L. Orsini, M. Ceccanti, S. Castilla, L. Cavicchi, M. Polini, P.A.D. Gonçalves, A.T. Costa, N.M.R. Peres, N.A. Mortensen, S. Bharadwaj, Z. Jacob, P.J. Schuck, A.N. Pasupathy, M. Delor, M.K. Liu, A. Mugarza, P. Merino, M.G. Cuxart, E. Chávez-Angel, M. Švec, L.H.G. Tizei, F. Dirnberger, H. Deng, C. Schneider, V. Menon, T. Deilmann, A. Chernikov, K.S. Thygesen, Y. Abate, M. Terrones, V.K. Sangwan, M.C. Hersam, L. Yu, X. Chen, T.F. Heinz, P. Murthy, M. Kroner, T. Smolenski, D. Thureja, T. Chervy, A. Genco, C. Trovatello, G. Cerullo, S.D. Conte, D. Timmer, A.D. Sio, C. Lienau, N. Shang, H. Hong, K. Liu, Z. Sun, L.A. Rozema, P. Walther, A. Alù, A. Marini, M. Cotrufo, R. Queiroz, X.-Y. Zhu, J.D. Cox, E.J.C. Dias, Á.R. Echarri, F. Iyikanat, P. Herrmann, N. Tornow, S. Klimmer, J. Wilhelm, G. Soavi, Z. Sun, S. Wu, Y. Xiong, O. Matsyshyn, R.K. Kumar, J.C.W. Song, T. Bucher, A. Gorlach, S. Tsesses, I. Kaminer, J. Schwab, F. Mangold, H. Giessen, M.S. Sánchez, D.K. Efetov, T. Low, G. Gómez-Santos, T. Stauber, G. Álvarez-Pérez, J. Duan, L. Martín-Moreno, A. Paarmann, J.D. Caldwell, A.Y. Nikitin, P. Alonso-González, N.S. Müller, V. Volkov, D. Jariwala, T. Shegai, J. van de Groep, A. Boltasseva, I.V. Bondarev, V.M. Shalaev, J. Simon, C. Fruhling, G. Shen, D. Novko, S. Tan, B. Wang, H. Petek, V. Mkhitaryan, R. Yu, A. Manjavacas, J.E. Ortega, X. Cheng, R. Tian, D. Mao, D.V. Thourhout, X. Gan, Q. Dai, A. Sternbach, Y. Zhou, M. Hafezi, D. Litvinov, M. Grzeszczyk, K.S. Novoselov, M. Koperski, S. Papadopoulos, L. Novotny, L. Viti, M.S. Vitiello, N.D. Cottam, B.T. Dewes, O. Makarovsky, A. Patanè, Y. Song, M. Cai, J. Chen, D. Naveh, H. Jang, S. Park, F. Xia, P.K. Jenke, J. Bajo, B. Braun, K.S. Burch, L. Zhao and X. Xu: Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials. ACS Photonics 12 (8), 3961–4095 (2025).

Díaz-Núñez, P., C. Lanza, Z. Wang, V.G. Kravets, J. Duan, J. Álvarez-Cuervo, A.T. Martín-Luengo, A.N. Grigorenko, Q. Yang, A. Paarmann, J. Caldwell, P. Alonso-González and A. Mishchenko: Visualization of topological shear polaritons in gypsum thin films. Science Advances 11 (29), eadw3452 (2025).

Elu, U., M. Krenz, M. Pawliszewska, A. Rossetti, F. Tani, J. Biegert and M. Wolf: A high-energy self-CEP-stable OPCPA seeder using a high-average-power picosecond narrowband Yb thin-disc laser. Optics Letters 50 (21), 6646–6649 (2025).

John, B., S. Kaur, M. Wolf, M. Thämer and A.P. Fellows: Using phase-resolved vibrational sum-frequency imaging to probe the impact of head-group functionality on hierarchical domain structure in lipid membranes. Faraday Discussions 259, 366–383 (2025).

Juraschek, D.M., R.M. Geilhufe, H. Zhu, M. Basini, P. Baum, A. Baydin, S. Chaudhary, M. Fechner, B. Flebus, G. Grissonnanche, A.I. Kirilyuk, M. Lemeshko, S.F. Maehrlein, M. Mignolet, S. Murakami, Q. Niu, U. Nowak, C.P. Romao, H. Rostami, T. Satoh, N.A. Spaldin, H. Ueda and L. Zhang: Chiral phonons. Nature Physics 21 (10), 1532–1540 (2025).

Kowalski, R.A., N.S. Müller, G. Álvarez-Pérez, M. Obst, K. Diaz-Granados, G. Carini, A. Senarath, S. Dixit, R. Niemann, R.B. Iyer, F.G. Kaps, J. Wetzel, J.M. Klopf, I.I. Kravchenko, M. Wolf, T.G. Folland, L.M. Eng, S.C. Kehr, P. Alonso-Gonzalez, A. Paarmann and J.D. Caldwell: Ultraconfined terahertz phonon polaritons in hafnium dichalcogenides. Nature Materials 24, 1735–1741 (2025).

Kremer, G., L. Nicolaï, F. Chassot, J. Maklar, C.W. Nicholson, J.H. Dil, J. Krempaský, G. Springholz, R. Ernstorfer, J. Minár, L. Rettig and C. Monney: Conduction band structure and ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric α-GeTe(111). Physical Review B 111 (23), 235109 (2025).

Lin, C., J. Li, G. Li, W. Luo, S. Liu, A. Hammud, Y. Xia, A. Pan, M. Wolf, M. Müller and T. Kumagai: Quantitative comparison of local field enhancement from tip-apex and plasmonic nanofocusing excitation via plasmon-assisted field emission resonances. Nanoscale 17 (12), 7164–7172 (2025).

Pan, Y., P.-N. Hildebrandt, D. Zahn, M. Zacharias, Y.W. Windsor, R. Ernstorfer, F. Caruso and H. Seiler: Momentum-Resolved Signatures of Carrier Screening Effects on Electron-Phonon Coupling in MoS₂. ACS Nano 19 (11), 11381–11389 (2025).

Pankratova, M., V. Borisov, D. Thonig, R. Pathak, Y.W. Windsor, L. Rettig, O. Eriksson, A. Ernst and A. Bergman: Ultrafast demagnetization dynamics of 4f antiferromagnets. Physical Review Materials 9 (9), 094408 (2025).

Park, Y., I. Hamada, M. Wolf and A. Shiotari: Submolecular-Resolution Probing of Vibrational Anharmonicity Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 64 (46), e202514215 (2025).

Pfeiffer, W., N.S. Müller, R. Hillenbrand, I. Niehues and P. Kusch: Correlation of near-field optical microscopy and tip-assisted photoluminescence. Journal of Microscopy, in press.

Rodríguez, A.V., A. Rossetti, M. Gandolfi, Y.U. Elgueta, E.B. Modin, S. Starikovskaia, T.L. Chng, V.V. Temnov, M.A. Vincenti, D. Brida, P. Vavassori and N. Maccaferri: Anomalous frequency scaling of acoustic phonon damping in freestanding nickel cavities fabricated via laser delamination. Applied Physics Letters 127 (7), 072201 (2025).

Shiotari, A., S. Liu, G. Trenins, T. Sugimoto, M. Wolf, M. Rossi and T. Kumagai: Picocavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Physisorbed H₂ and D₂ Molecules. Physical Review Letters 134 (20), 206901 (2025).

Shiotari, A., J. Nishida, A. Hammud, F. Schulz, M. Wolf, T. Kumagai and M. Müller: Scattering near-field optical microscopy at 1-nm resolution using ultralow tip oscillation amplitudes. Science Advances 11 (24), eadu1415 (2025).

Spencer, M.S., J. Urban, M. Frenzel, N.S. Müller, O. Minakova, M. Wolf, A. Paarmann and S.F. Maehrlein: Electro-optic cavities for in-situ measurement of cavity fields. Light: Science & Applications 14, 69 (2025).

Urban, J., M.S. Spencer, M. Frenzel, G. Trippé-Allard, M. Cherasse, C. Berrezueta-Palacios, P. Joshi, A.P. Fellows, O. Minakova, E.B. Barros, L. Perfetti, S. Reich, M. Wolf, E. Deleporte and S.F. Maehrlein: THz-Driven Coherent Phonon Fingerprints of Hidden Symmetry Breaking in 2D Layered Hybrid Perovskites. Advanced Materials, in press.

Wiedenhaupt, H., F. Schulz, L. Parra Lopez, A. Hammud, Y. Park, A. Shiotari, T. Kumagai, M. Wolf and M. Müller: Plasmonic Light Emission by Inelastic Charge Transport in Ultrathin Zinc Oxide/Metal Heterostructures. Nano Letters 25 (7), 2870–2877 (2025).

Frenzel, M.: Ultrafast Terahertz Control of Structural and Charge Carrier Dynamics in Emerging Semiconductors. Freie Universität Berlin

John, B.: Development of a Phase-Sensitive Sum Frequency Generation Microscope for the Investigation of Molecular Structures at Interfaces. Freie Universität Berlin