Adlershof at Intersolar June 19. - 21. / Stand B2.250

WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH will open the Centre for Photovoltaics and Re-newable Energies (ZPV) in the science and technology park

The attractive building follows an "architecture of dialogue" that focuses on transparency, social encounters and communication. Its central design element is the building-high, well-lit foyer with its galleries, and the sculptural, self-supporting spiral staircase providing lines of sight between all the floors. Specifically for companies from the Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy sector, the ZPV provides 8,000 m² rentable... [more]

Polymer-coated catalyst protects "artificial leaf"

HZB Scientists produce hydrogen by means of solar energy

Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the process yielding hydrogen that can be used for a storable fuel. Researchers at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels have modified so called superstrate solar cells with their highly efficient architecture in order to obtain hydrogen from... [more]

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 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]

HIGH TECH – LOW EX: For the future of energy eficiency

An interview with Beate Mekiffer, head of this pilot project in Adlershof, one of the largest inner city development areas in Europe

Why does Adlershof need a new energy concept? Recent years have seen a huge boost to growth in Adlershof, and its energy needs will grow in line with the resulting expansions. Investors of today and tomorrow want to work on an energy efficient basis and save costs, and for this we must create the necessary environment. The legal provisions for energysavings must be fulfilled. Not least of all, we cannot justify our image as a high tech location... [more]

Nucleus for innovative storage solutions

Approaches for a self-sufficient energy supply

From 2014, the 5,000 inhabitants of the Azorean island of Graciosa can expect far greater independence from the mainland. The Adlershof company Younicos will be converting the island’s electricity grid to provide the greater part of its power from renewable sources. The Younicos production halls are already operating a model that simulates the processes on a scale of 1:3. The new system on the island will consist of photovoltaic modules and... [more]

Tapping into heaven and earth

How renewable energies are utilised in the Technology Park Adlershof

In Adlershof, solar energy is on the brink of breaking a new local record. At the latest inJune, tenants will be able to move into the offices and laboratories of the new photovoltaicscentre covering 8,000 square metres. This building will then contribute its rooftop solarmodules for a total of 32 photovoltaic installations in Adlershof, delivering a rated power ofover 2 MW in total. The “Adlershof solar power station” is the most prominent... [more]

Climate Climbers

Building climatization by a façade greening system in Adlershof

As a means to save high tech air conditioning energy, the physics building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) in Adlershof has put on a coat of vegetation that regulates temperature – an extraordinary model. Sparse winter light still penetrates the large windows on Newtonstrasse, but the first rays of the spring sun will set everything in motion. The first delicate leaves and buds of wisteria, clematis and grape ivy will sprout and, with... [more]