Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures

April 2012

Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2 km2 since 1991. At the core of the concept is a Science and Technology Park with 429 companies, eleven non-university research institutes and six scientific institutes of... [more]

Thin-film photovoltaics – All the current issues

3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin Adlershof

The 3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin will look at all the issues around thin-film technology - from the political environment, through international market development, finance and marketing, to sales, production capacity, availability of materials, quality assurance and recycling. The Thin-Film Industry Forum will form a key event that will bring the players of the solar industry together with... [more]

Space Technology Hall of Fame Award for IQ Wireless and DLR

Successfull Fire-Watch System

Space Foundation congratulates on the IQ Wireless’  innovative efforts which resulted in the selection of the FireWatch for induction into the 2012 Space Technology Hall of Fame.  IQ Wireless’ role in the successful development of this technology is being recognized as an outstanding example of applying space technology for the betterment of life on Earth. IQ Wireless will be inducted as an Innovating Organization into the Space... [more]

PicoQuant reinforced team

With two excellent specialists in lasers, single photon counting applications

To meet the increased requirements of a high quality customer support and service level resulting from a continuous growth, PicoQuant has strengthened its sales and marketing team with two excellent specialists in lasers, single photon counting applications and confocal microscopy.  Dr. Susanne Trautmann joined the sales and marketing team as application specialist in advanced microscopic techniques at the beginning of this year. With... [more]

Where snails are giants

Dimensions, especially those that are hard to conceive, are the subject of the artist Margund Smolka. At the new Microsystems and Materials Centre ZMM, she plays with the inconceivability of dimensions in modern microsystem technology.  Giant snails creep over the facades, stairwells and laboratory apparatus in the ZMM. Suddenly, they shrink to their normal size. Where else but at the ZMM could Smolka’s snails have found a better home,... [more]

The Translators

In 2006, on the initiative and with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, six application centres with close ties to research set out with entrepreneurs to explore the possibilities of “translating” scientific findings into products based on microsystem technology. In 2012, funding will stop. However, one of the partners, the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM, thinks the model to be so... [more]

Top quality training

“No acute shortage of skills at microtechnology companies”. This conclusion was published by IVAM, the professional association for microsystems, in early 2011 following a survey of its member companies. At the same time, however, nearly two thirds of those questioned expected to be faced with this very shortage in the near future. This view is also shared in the science location Adlershof – and measures are being taken against it.  Hamm... [more]

New material for greater energy efficiency

Almost every electrical device has them, whether computer network componentry, solar modules or electric cars. Power converters convert ac to dc and vice versa and make sure that the voltage from the grid is just right for each consumer. The heart of these electrical circuits takes the form of transistors, in principle switches that can be actuated by a voltage placed across them. Up until now, power transistors were manufactured on a silicon... [more]

Good Neighbours

The former grounds of a TV Electronics Plant in Oberschöneweide are providing a new home to microsystem technology companies. A new cluster is in the making that is profiting from neighbouring companies in the southeast of Berlin. “We like to stick around,” laughed Andreas Thun, Managing Director of iris-GmbH infrared & intelligent sensors in Oberschöneweide. When the TV electronics plant WF was wound up in the wake of Reunification, Thun... [more]

Evoling magnificently

Wolfgang Gries was one of the first tenants at the new Microsystems and Materials Centre ZMM. Set up just recently, his company DirectPhotonics GmbH manufactures industrial lasers for processing materials, e.g. for cutting or welding metals in car making. Also based in Adlershof, AEMtec GmbH has long since left its setup phase behind and is evolving magnificently. In the summer it will be setting another milestone in the form of its own company... [more]

Forth Dimension Displays showcases Replicating Reality™ at GDC 2012

Future of immersive, compelling entertainment

Forth Dimension Displays (FDD), a leading provider of high-resolution microdisplays and a subsidiary of Kopin Corporation (Nasdaq: KOPN), will exhibit at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) to be held from March 7 to 9 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center (SDI booth #1132).  Replicating Reality™, FDD’s concept to provide the ultimate visual experience by making the user feel fully immersed in a virtual world or hyper-reality, will... [more]

Make contacts on Laser Optics Berlin 2012

International brokerage event “Photonics in Europe”

The Enterprise Europe Network Berlin-Brandenburg will host a brokerage event for companies and research institutions from photonics and microsystems technologies at the Laser Optics Berlin on March 19th and 20th. An online matching tool offers participants the opportunity to presents themselves and their offers / requests already before the actual event. This will help interested companies and institutes to arrange appointments easily.Registered... [more]

Adlershof at the CeBIT in Hannover, Germany

In 2012 is Berlin Adlershof represented again at the CeBIT:You find the subject „Software – Business IT“  in hall 02, booth B68, at the pavilion of the capital region Berlin-Brandenburg.The Fraunhofer Institute FIRST, Rhode & Black SIT, and Sota Solutions are other enterprises and institutes from Berlin Adlershof, which also exhibit at the CeBIT 2012.Organizer: German FairLocation: Exhibition Centre, 30521 Hannover, GermanyContact:Mrs.... [more]

Magnetic particles in fabric softeners and nanotubes in creams?

International Workshop Dispersion Analysis organized by LUM in Berlin from 1-2 March

Nanoparticles and convenience goods, having nothing in common at first sight, are subject to the same physical principles with respect to the characterization of their separation behaviour during production, storage and application. Magnetic particles or carbon nanotubes are not stored and applied as powders but being dispersed in a liquid phase. Resulting are heterogeneous systems of two or more substances, not chemically bonded nor dissolved... [more]

Technology Park Berlin Adlershof at Photonics West 2012

DirectPhonotics presents new generation of high-performance diode lasers / New Technology Center

Berlin Adlershof, one of the most successful sites for high technology in Germany with a particular focus on optical technology, photonics and optics, presented its newest products and technologies at Photonics West, which took place from January, 21-26 2012 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, California. Next to the technology park’s operating company, WISTA-MANGEMENT GMBH, the joint German exhibition stand hosted the DirectPhotonics Industries... [more]