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A three-point landing on Segelfliegerdamm
Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann has a new headquarters in Adlershof:
Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann will be moving into its new headquarters on Segelfliegerdamm in Adlershof in autumn. Segelfliegerdamm roughly translates to glider pilot causeway, which is a fitting…

New DFG research group on mixed crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate
IKZ is member of the new research group “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”:
Dr. Steffen Ganschow of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is member of the new DFG research group FOR5044 “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”. The research group will investigate…

An era of side effects
The Humboldt Laboratory will open on 7 January 2021 at Humboldt Forum. It will also feature research from Adlershof:
A thinking space, a collaborative research project, and a place where science and the public enter into a dialogue: the Humboldt Laboratory in Berlin-Mitte will open its gates on 7 January 2021. The inaugural…

Research as an art, art as research
Light installations, art in buildings, historical monuments: an expedition through Adlershof:
The Technology Park Adlershof in autumn. Shiny new buildings, the doors of high-tech companies and institutes are locked, only few people are outside. Hurrying across the site, it could easily seem like purely…

Inspiring women in science
In the Marthe Vogt Podcast of the Forschungsverbund Berlin, junior researchers share stories about their journey into science:
For the majority of women in science, doctoral and postdoctoral phases continue to be the most vulnerable time in their careers. In the new Marthe Vogt Podcast by the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB), Natalia…

Secure satellite communication – Berlin team wins INNOspace Masters 2019/20
Project “QuMSeC” of TU, HU and FBH becomes overall winner of the DLR innovation competition:
The winners of the INNOspace Masters competition, which is organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have been announced: On 14 October, a Berlin-based team from Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität and…

Helmholtz-Zentrum is one of the best trainers in Berlin
The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:
The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…

William F. Meggers Award of the SAS presented to FBH authors
The prize recognizes the paper as the outstanding publication of the year 2019 in the journal “Applied Spectroscopy”:
The paper Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy with Charge-Shifting Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Lock-In Detection was honored with the prestigious William F. Meggers Award of the Society for Applied…

PicoQuant GmbH strengthens local presence in China
Chinese customers benefit from a website in Chinese and a strong local presence:
To better serve its growing Chinese customer base, PicoQuant GmbH now has an official Chinese website that offers first-hand information about PicoQuant products and applications. Together with 20 trained sales and…

University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial intelligence
New experimental methods will be developed and the analysis of data from experiments performed at BESSY II will be significantly improved:
Every year, nearly 3000 user groups from around the world visit the electron storage ring BESSY II to study an immense variety of materials using the brilliant X-ray light the ring generates. “In the research of…

Twisting magnetization with light
Laser pulses enable faster creation of skyrmions in magnets:
A team of scientists led by the Max Born Institute (MBI), Berlin, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, has demonstrated how tiny magnetization patterns known as skyrmions can…

Two Winners of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2020
Dr. Chayanika Das (BAM) and Svea Stephan (KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte) won the Adlershof competition:
Dr. Chayanika Das, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) with Breaking the Wall of MAGNESIUM CORROSION and Svea Stephan, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, with Breaking the Wall of EXPLOITING…

Atom-Billiards with X-Rays
A new Approach to look inside of Molecules:
Since the early days of quantum mechanics, it is known that photons also possess momentum. The photon’s ability to transfer momentum was used in a novel approach by scientists of the Max Born Institute, Uppsala…
A second DLR study on COVID-19 and mobility
Public transport wanes in popularity, private transport gains in importance:
Public transport is losing ground in Germany, while the importance of individual means of transport, especially private cars, is increasing. These are the key findings of the second survey conducted by the German…

First measurement results of the CHEOPS space telescope were published
WASP-189b is one of the hottest exoplanets known to date:
Initial measurements made by the European CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope indicate that the giant planet, WASP-189b, located 326 light years from Earth, glows as hot as a small star as it…

HZB & IKZ Bundle Their Competencies In Crystalline Energy And Quantum Materials
On September 11, 2020, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) signed a cooperation agreement to advance joint research on energy and quantum materials. As part of the…
Dr. Raphael Jay has received the Carl-Ramsauer-Award for his excellent dissertation
The physicist studied ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in iron complexes:
Dr. Raphael Jay has received this year's Carl-Ramsauer-Prize of the German Physical Society of Berlin (DPGzB). The prize honours outstanding dissertations in physics and related fields and will be awarded during a…

Solar-cell façade at HZB undergoes real-life testing
360 solar modules integrated into the building envelope of the new BESSY testing hall:
Solar-modules shimmer bright blue on the cladding of a new building at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). They are special CIGS thin-film modules custom-developed and produced in Germany for integration into the…

PicoQuant’s rapidFLIM HiRes combines ultra fast FLIM imaging with outstanding 10 ps time resolution
Users can now visualize dynamic processes in cells or tissues with unprecedented acquisition speed and time resolution:
Imaging dynamic processes in tissues or cells require methods that are fast, reliable, and quantitative. Scientists and engineers at PicoQuant have developed rapidFLIMHiRes which enables imaging samples at up to 15…

Self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons
Mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibration:
One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced dynamics of molecules is to observe time-dependent changes in the structure of molecules, which result from the absorption of light, as directly and…