Advantage cooperation

Adlershof as a functioning IT network

Berlin is one of Europe's prime IT-locations. In Adlershof alone there are about eighty companies working in IT and media. They profit from their contacts with science and trade partners and from a wide range of offered floor space. “Whoever still thinks that computer and software specialists work in a cave, set up their company in their dad’s garage, and don’t care where they’re based, should think again. Besides good traffic links, high... [more]

Healthy data exchange

Adlershof's solutions in medical engineering

Information and telecommunications technology is also adopting an ever greater role in health care – and not least of all because new diagnostics and therapies generate huge amounts of data. Adlershof companies provide solutions for reliable and innovative data processing in medical engineering. Markets are undergoing radical changes, economic prospects are uncertain – yet medical engineering is standing its ground in the face of these perils.... [more]

Self sufficient components for the homes of the future

GFaI research introduces greater flexibility to facilities

“The utilisation of ambient energy represents a new quality,” replied Professor Alfred Iwainsky when asked about the role of IT technology in the homes of the future. The physics graduate is Chair of GFaI, an association for the promotion of applied information technology in Adlershof. One of the focal points of its research is so called microscale energy harvesting for self sufficient components in homes. These components are self sufficient,... [more]

Training and flying

Social business and e-learning modules

Like learning, working nowadays need no longer be bound to the one fixed location. This independence of geographical locations promotes freedom in the choice of time and place, but also gives rise to organizational challenges. Social business or e-learning modules – often scalable, high performance, global systems – help to master these. Community is the magic word here. What has long become an integral constituent of daily life in the form of... [more]

Getting off the ground

Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof

Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in the face of competition, functional fixedness is responsible for turning many good ideas into zero capital. No national economy and no university can afford to leave good ideas just lying around. “Wanted!” is emblazoned across the... [more]

IT from Adlershof enhances TV-Images

...and secures industrial production

Whether TV images, sound, or lignite – the efficiency of their production is enhanced by components from the company FOC fibre optical components. And where the security of industrial production is concerned, this finds a guardian angel in the form of the mGuard platform, a product of Innominate Security Technologies AG. Ever higher TV definition, optimally in 3D, and ever better sound – the mass of data that these require is constantly... [more]

Cash, crime, and cryptography

They manage dollar reserves, itemise valuable museum collections, and encrypt NATO data. The software companies of Adlershof provide developments that enhance security at many authorities and business establishments. The more valuable the paintings in the basement are, the greater the complexity of the safety precautions they need. When the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden wants to know the value of the art objects in its extensive archives... [more]

By car, train, and cargo bike

IT for the mobile generation

IT for the mobile generation – this is a discipline that a number of companies are tackling in Adlershof. Ideas for the mobility of the future include precision navigation to the nearest metre on forest tracks and in factories, pan-European ticketing systems, and the iBullitt cargo bike. Forest vehicles in local wooded areas can rely on the “Forestry” navigator. Unlike the usual satnavs available on the market, this development from the company... [more]

New centrifuge technology will enable multi-sample adhesive and composite strength testing

85% time saving

A new analytical centrifuge is being used to test adhesive bonds, coatings and composites. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing’s scientists had the idea that samples should no longer be clamped, but simply inserted. Simply inserting the specimen makes rapid loading possible. In addition, up to eight samples can be tested simultaneously under identical conditions. Conventional tensile testing machines were and still are only... [more]

Narrow line width made affordable

eagleyard Photonics unveils the very cost effective, frequency stabilized Ridge Waveguide Laser product series (RWS)

High quality and cost effectiveness can perfectly match if combined properly within a single component. This does at least apply to eagleyard’s new stabilized ridge waveguide laser diode series where the narrow line width has been built in already rather than combining a variety of hybrid elements. With its monolithically integrated on-chip wavelength stabilization, this new product line provides an outstanding performance in terms of long-term... [more]

Touchdown at 633 nm

eagleyard Photonics introduces a new family of single frequency red laser diodes

With its new DBR1) 633 nm laser diode family, eagleyard Photonics expands its widely introduced Near-IR portfolio into the red. Integrated within the high reliable TO package style, eagleyard’s new GaAs2)-based DBR laser is capable of providing 10 mW @ 633 nm with a spectral linewidth of 750 kHz and below. The device is also available in a 14-pin standard butterfly package with fiber pigtail and incorporates thermistor, thermo-electric cooler... [more]

TOPTICA Buys Laser Diode Maker eagleyard

„Closer future collaboration is strengthening Berlin as a center hub for optical technologies“

Reflecting the continuous growth and to strengthen the core competency „diode lasers“, TOPTICA Photonics AG of Graefelfing/Munich has acquired the majority ownership of the Berlin-based laser diode manufacturer eagleyard Photonics GmbH. The effective acquisition date is January 1st, 2013.With an annual turnover of about €4 Million ($5 Mio USD) eagleyard is one of the world-leading manufacturers of laser diodes providing highest spectral power... [more]

About dispersible nanoparticles, stable pigment pastes, hot cooked cheese and adhesives

International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Material Testing in Berlin, March 7-8

At first sight, blood and food, household products and industrial nanoparticles have nothing in common. A closer look reveals, all are subject to the same physical principles with respect to the characterization of their separation behaviour during production, storage and application. Solid or liquid nano- and microparticles are homogeneously dispersed in a liquid phase for storage and application. Resulting are heterogeneous systems of two or... [more]

Electrons behave like light

Graphene on Nickel

Dr. Andrei Varykhalov and his colleagues in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader investigated at BESSY II the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene and achieved an astonishing result. They could show that the conduction electrons of the graphene behave rather as light than as particles. Physicists had originally expected such behavior only for freestanding graphene layers which show a perfect honeycomb structure and not for... [more]

Small and efficient

Water nanodroplets cool biomolecules ultrafast

Researchers of the Max-Born-Institute at Berlin, Germany, have observed how biomolecules transfer energy into extremely small water droplets in their environment. A water shell consisting of only 3 water molecules around a phospholipid molecule is sufficient for energy transfer within 1 ps. Biochemical processes occur mainly in an aqueous environment. Particular groups of a biomolecule are embedded in a shell of water molecules, a... [more]