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A swift path to comfortable living
Germany's leading construction and property development company NCC recognised Adlershof's potential:
The step from theory to practice is one that researchers, entrepreneurs and students at the science location of Adlershof in Berlin's Treptow-Köpenick district take on a daily basis. It is a crucial step towards a…
Building on the future
Houses and quarters built by award-winning property developer PLUS BAU:
They carry names such as Ocean’s End, ElbElysium, Schöne Aussicht, Sonnengarten or Himmelmoor – the houses and quarters built by award-winning property developer PLUS BAU. In keeping with its two maxims "Going for the…
LUM now directly in France
LUM GmbH opens own application laboratory in Paris:
The new application lab of LUM GmbH opens in Plaisir, a Western suburb of Paris, on October, 1st 2014. „The opening of the application laboratory is the next logical step in the further development of the French…
“Multi-spectra glasses” for scanning electron microscopy
Adlershof scientists develop high resolution spectrometer for the detection of lighter elements:
Reflection zone plates produced by HZB enable lighter elements in material samples to be precisely detected using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) by providing high resolution in the range of 50-1120 eV. The…
Jieyang cooperates with Germany to create Sino-German Metal Eco City
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang attend the contract signing between WISTA and Sino-German Metal Eco City:
Located in Yujiao Town, Jiedong District, Sino-German Metal Eco Cityis striving to become a pioneer in the new round of comprehensive cooperation between China and Germany. Because of the abundant private capitaland…
Molecular detection of colon cancer
AIT, BioVendor and SCIENION signed cooperation agreement for early detection of colon cancer:
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers being the second most common cause of cancer in women and the third most common in men. At the same time colon cancer is the fourth common cause of cancer related death.…
Cooperation India - Adlershof Science Park
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology visits Berlin:
The indian company JCurve and the WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH of Adlershof Science Park want to promote Indian-German cooperation. JCurve's CEO Bharat Joshi is a well regarded consultant, business man and experienced…
Now you see me, now you don’t ...
New experiments in the helium atom at MBI allow to turn electron correlation on and off at will:
After the hydrogen atom, which consists of one proton and one electron, the helium atom is nature’s simplest atom. The helium atom consists of a doubly-charged nucleus surrounded by two electrons. The presence of…
eagleyard Photonics serves dynamic medical sector
Introduction of a 16 Watt single emitter laser diode at 1064 nm:
eagleyard Photonics, a leading supplier of high-power laser diodes offers a single-emitter laser diode with an optical output power up to 16 Watt. The new 16 Watt Broad Area Laser (BAL) complements the successfully…
Proteins: New class of materials discovered
German-Chinese research team gleans seminal insights into protein crystalline frameworks at HZB's BESSY II:
Scientists at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) along with researchers at China’s Fudan University have characterized a new class of materials called protein crystalline frameworks (PCFs). Thanks to certain helper…
Swimming Supports Science
SCIENION Contributes to the ‘Rheines Wasser’ Project with Microarray-based Multiparameter Testing of Waterborne Pathogens all along the River Rhine:
SCIENION AG announced that the company supports the unique research project ‘Rheines Wasser’ involving a 1,231 km long Rhine marathon swim. SCIENIONs contribution include water quality testing with a novel…
Dutch universities opt for SENTECH
Service and flexibility convince when using plasma etching systems from Adlershof:
SENTECH offers leading edge plasma process technology equipment for etching and deposition and thin film measurement instrumentation based on ellipsometry. The advanced SENTECH plasma equipment is based on the …
MagForce will focus on establishing cancer treatment with NanoTherm™ therapy
Biotech company publishes financial results and operative highlights:
MagForce AG, a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, today published financial results for the first half of 2014, ending on June 30, 2014, and operative highlights.…
Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into small clusters
Researchers from HZB and HU achieve amazing results with unusual solvent:
Researchers at HZB in co-operation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU, Berlin) have made an astonishing observation: they were investigating the formation of gold nanoparticles in a solvent and observed that…
FBH developed fiber coupled pump modules for chirped pulse amplification thin disk lasers
940 nm QCW Pump Modules for 6 kW out of Fiber:
In a joint project with the Max-Born-Institute the FBH developed fiber coupled pump modules for high repetition rate chirped pulse amplification thin disk lasers of the Joule class. The Yb:YAG system works at up…
Survivalists ready for journey to the ISS
Progress spacecraft carries blue-green algae and biofilms for DLR experiments into space:
Tough, resilient and able to survive in the most inhospitable regions on Earth – now, they are being asked to show their strength in a space environment as well; blue-green algae (cyanobacteria of the genus…
New technique by Bruker
Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction in SEM:
A new technique called Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction, or TKD, has been developed as an SEM-based method capable of delivering the same type of results as EBSD, but with a spatial resolution improved by up to one…
Application-oriented thin film measurement seminar
SENTECH as a worldwide leader in thin film measurement and plasma process technology organizes application oriented seminars on a regular basis:
The most recent seminar “Ellipsometry and Reflectometry for characterizing thin films” was on thin film measurement. More than 20 participants mainly from industry as well as SENTECH users were part of the audience.…
“Plasma Etching & Deposition” Seminar by SENTECH in China enjoyed great popularity
A one day technical plasma seminar was given by SENTECH in Shanghai on June 20th, 2014. The Chinese institute SIMIT (Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology) hosted this annual event, which gained…
Electrostatics do the trick
A simple model describes what happens between organic semiconductors and metals:
Organic semiconductors allow for flexible displays (OLEDs), solar cells (OPVCs), and other interesting applications. One common problem in these devices, however, is the interface between the metallic contacts and the…