10 May 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics winner Donna Strickland, made her first visit to the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) in Prague, highlighting the critical role her pioneering work in laser physics plays in supporting ELI's advanced research.
8 May 2024
The primary goal of the Ultrafast Nanoscience Group at ELI ALPS is to study the course of laser-matter interactions on the nanometre scale and in the femtosecond regime. Within the framework of the experiments, physicists produce unique nanostructures in a process dubbed “nanosculpting”.
25 April 2024
Gérard Mourou, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, joined the University of Szeged as a research professor at the National Laser-Initiated Transmutation Laboratory (NLTL) on 1 May. The French physicist, who played a key role in the establishment of our research institute, is a frequent guest of ours.
19 April 2024
Photographer Zsolt Dobóczky’s second photo album featuring pictures with lasers in the focus has come out with the title Pulses of the Future. Similar to the first volume (Invisible Flashes), which was published in 2017, the collection presents life at ELI ALPS.
9 April 2024
Conventional computers can deliver amazing performance, but people want even faster devices. Quantum computing is a promising direction of development, but it seems to be an area where a major breakthrough is still to come.
8 April 2024
Dr. Katalin Varjú, our Science Director, has been interviewed by innoteka.hu.
26 March 2024
Alessandra Bellissimo, a solid-state physicist from the Vienna University of Technology, conducted measurements on the NanoESCA endstation of ELI ALPS for four weeks. In Vienna, she works in the same laboratory where the Nobel Prize winning physicist Ferenc Krausz did his research more than two decades ago.
25 March 2024
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th ELI User Call.
14 March 2024
On the occasion of Hungary’s national holiday on 15 March, Tamás Sulyok, President of the Republic of Hungary, awarded the Széchenyi Prize to Prof. Gábor Szabó, laser physicist and managing director of ELI ALPS.
13 March 2024
Associate Professor Tzveta Apostolova from the New Bulgarian University and the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy in Sofia and two MSc students conducted experiments at ELI ALPS for eight days. The Bulgarian physicist thinks that the Szeged based laser centre is indeed a world-class research facility.
8 March 2024
In response to our patent application for a gas cell suitable for high harmonic generation, the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office granted the patent rights in October 2023. The patent deed was delivered in February 2024.
28 February 2024
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is set to launch the 4th ELI User Call on 25 March with an open Call period until 29 April.
28 January 2024
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is set to launch the 4th ELI User Call on 25 March with an open Call period until 29 April.
6 February 2024
On January 30 and 31, 2024, Elettra Synchrotron Trieste hosted the IMPULSE User Access Workshop, a two-day event organized by ELI ERIC as part of the WP5 and WP6 activities within the IMPULSE project.
11 December 2023
The most prestigious international award in the world of science was presented to the two Hungarian scientists by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 10 December 2023.
7 December 2023
A summary by Katalin Varjú, Péter Dombi, and Gábor Szabó on the background of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been published in the December 2023 issue of the journal ”Hungarian Science”.
30 November 2023
A collaboration of researchers from Szeged, Budapest and Pécs has led to the development of a completely new electron source driven by high wavelength light, which could provide the basis for the operation of new types of electronic devices in the near future.
23 November 2023
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI ERIC) signed an agreement with the University of Szeged to become the majority shareholder in ELI ALPS. The strategic agreement effectively integrates the Hungarian-based research facility under the unified governance of ELI ERIC achieving the original vision for ELI.
13 November 2023
Professor Gérard Mourou, the initiator of the ELI laser infrastructure, and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) has paid a visit to our research institute.