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Things are really moving at the Photonics Centre
Interview with Kezban Saritas from the operating company WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH
There’s a lot happening at the Photonics and Optical Technologies Centre ZPO in Adlershof. A new generation is taking over. Successful established companies are setting up their own buildings at this technology location – creating space for new ideas at the Centre. Where are Adlershof photonics companies active? Kezban Saritas: For years now, the photonics sector has enjoyed a course of stable growth of about seven percent p. a. Many of our... [more]
We need more space!
Not just one, but several photonics companies are currently building a new head office or an extension – and remain true to the location Adlershof
AEMtec GmbH is not the only photonics company in Adlershof that has to deal with a building project in addition to its core business. The next few weeks will see, for example, Bruker Nano GmbH move into its new head office, a renovated stock building on Justus-von-Liebig-Straße. Just opposite this, a new company building is taking shape for LTB Holding. Also on Justus-von-Liebig- Straße, construction work has begun on an extension to LLA... [more]
Key to new production technologies
For years, optics and microsystems engineering have been on the road to success in the capital region of Berlin-Brandenburg
Over 400 in number, the companies and research institutes employ 16,600 people and are achieving a turnover of 2.3 billion. Gerrit Rössler, Cluster Manager for Optics at the TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH, is clearly pleased: “Networking in the cluster has progressed to a very great extent.” Now new tasks are in the offing. Rössler points out that the knowhow is of economic relevance not only to the companies in the region. “Many of these... [more]
Multipurpose fibres
From biogas fermentation to the identification of risks associated with intestinal cancer – the Adlershof company art photonics manufactures special purpose fibres for a wide range of applications
Thanks to art photonics' fibre technology, cancer specialists can so to speak see into the future and identify a number of deadly diseases before they can break out. New infrared endoscopes detect inflammation in the finest folds of the human digestive system that are invisible to the naked eye. The initial stages of the dangerous intestinal cancer can then be treated at a particularly early time. At the heart of these tubular endoscopes are... [more]
Medical Provisions
The ability to change can be a key to success. One example of this is demonstrated by opTricon GmbH. The company was launched in 2005 as a service provider that developed components for optical data transmission. The customers...
The ability to change can be a key to success. One example of this is demonstrated by opTricon GmbH. The company was launched in 2005 as a service provider that developed components for optical data transmission. The customers were mostly neighbours in the Adlershof Technology Park. Today, opTricon is a global player that manufactures optical reader systems for use in medical diagnostics. Also companies like Lumics or Lasertechnik Berlin have... [more]
Excellent research
Adlershof is profiting from the university’s excellence status
It is now official: Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) also enjoys the reputation of being excellent – also for nanooptics, a highly complex field of physics where top researchers find great promise for the future and pave the way for visionary technologies like quantum computers. The terrain explored by Professor Oliver Benson and his team starts where classical optics ends. The researchers want to understand what happens on the... [more]
Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
“Of great technical interest for future hard disk drives”
Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains. “The understanding of the driving interactions is of great technological interest for future hard disk drives, which are... [more]
Snap shots of one of life's central processes
Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis
Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this complex catalytic reaction using ultrashort snap shots taken at light sources including BESSY II in Berlin and the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford. To support their efforts, the Human Frontier Science Program has now... [more]
MagForce AG Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm® Therapy
European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates
MagForce AG, a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, announced today that the Company has been granted a further European patent for its NanoTherm® therapy, for which the opposition period has now expired. Patent EP 1871423 B1 relates to a new generation of NanoTherm® particles in the form of nanoparticle-drug conjugates, which are suitable for drug delivery systems. Nanoparticle-drug conjugates inside a... [more]
The architecture of dialogue
The new Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof
A place where the identity of the linking research subject can be experienced: that was the goal of architect Gunther Henn. The outcome is an architecture of dialogue. Bernd Ludwig, Director of the Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof, is understandably proud. As high as the building itself, a very bright foyer with galleries and a sculpted, free standing set of stairs presents visual links between all floors. „Here you... [more]
Neighbors move electrons jointly
An ultrafast molecular movie on metal complexes in a crystal
Photochemistry and molecular photovoltaics make frequent use of so-called transition metal complexes which consist of a central metal ion bonded to a group of surrounding ligands. Such materials display a strong absorption of ultraviolet or visible light, making them attractive as primary light absorbers in molecular solar cells and other devices of molecular optoelectronics. Absorption of light is followed by an extremely fast shift... [more]
Innovation thanks to analytics
Adlershof turns into “Analytic City”
Analytics has a long tradition in Adlershof. The Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften (ISAS) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) are working towards refining this profile and help turning Adlershof into “Analytic City”. It was analytics that found carbamazepine in the Teltow Canal. Carbamazepine, an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy, is not broken down in sewage clarification – just like the... [more]
Diagnosis: fatigue
Adlershof‘s JPT Peptide Technologies and Charité develop biomarker test
About 300,000 people in Germany suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome – presumably, because it is difficult to diagnose. This might change, however, because now a biomarker test is being developed specifically for this purpose. It often starts with debilitating fatigue, followed by fever and then Pains in the muscles and joints. Like a never ending flu is how patients describe their mysterious disorder that is designated chronic fatigue syndrome... [more]
Stability and Growth
In the lobby, ASCA Managing Director Christine Wedler got talking to her neighbour. The Institut für Produktqualität had just moved into a new laboratory in Adlershof. There she learned that reference substances were needed for...
In the lobby, ASCA Managing Director Christine Wedler got talking to her neighbour. The Institut für Produktqualität had just moved into a new laboratory in Adlershof. There she learned that reference substances were needed for food analysis. “We could supply them,” explained Wedler. Just like Adlershof: synergies are the hallmarks of this location. The company ASCA GmbH Angewandte Synthesechemie Adlershof was founded in 2000 by Professor Hans... [more]
Analyse, identify, quantify
Adlershof biotech companies have adopted a powerful position on the world market with their innovative analytical methods for protein manufacture
Proteins are the elementary building blocks of life. Yet there is much about these substances that is yet to be researched. Especially in the human body, molecules and their interactions are complex, and often too complex for the customary research methods. Nevertheless, scientists are working on the analysis of the proteome, not least of all for advancing medical knowledge. These advances are also being boosted by Adlershof biotechnology... [more]
WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH
Dr. Peer Ambrée
Executive Manager Technology Centers
Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-4754
Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 6392-2235
EMail: ambree(at)wista.de
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