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Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells on the threshold of 30% efficiency
HZB team was able to improve the charge carrier transport and the stability of the solar cells:
An HZB team has published a report in the journal Science on the development of its current world record of 29.15% efficiency for a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon. The tandem cell provided stable…
European Research Council (ERC) awards Consolidator Grant to Jochen Mikosch
MBI researcher receives 2 million Euro of funding to perform basic research on time-resolved structural dynamics of chemical reactions:
Jochen Mikosch receives a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). In a highly competitive and thorough procedure it is awarded to established researchers with 7-12 years of experience…
Dynamics of ferroelectric phase transitions – a new research focus at the IKZ
Fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films will enable active cooling in integrated electronic components:
Scientists at Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) conduct fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films. In the future, these materials will be used to build miniaturized refrigerators in…
Kathrin Goldammer founding member of “Women in Green Hydrogen”
Managing Director of the Reiner Lemoine Instituts is part of a new international platform for female hydrogen experts:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer is part of the founding team of the network “Women in Green Hydrogen”. This is an international platform for women working and researching in the field of green hydrogen. The…
Launch of the catalysis research platform CatLab in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and two Max Planck institutes want to achieve leaps of innovation in hydrogen research:
Hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source will play a key role in our energy system for the future. Hydrogen-based chemical energy media are needed as long-term storage repositories in the energy system and are crucial…
Rubies in the spotlight
The Optical Society (OSA) chooses publication with IKZ participation as “Spotlight” of the month:
In the publication “Optical spin polarization in ruby enhances slow light by high-contrast transient spectral hole-burning” Hans Riesen, Aleksander K. Rebane, Wayne Hutchison and Steffen Ganschow describe important…
Belyntic GmbH wins Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2020
“Unique technology for research, development, and production of peptide therapeutics” / Adlershof start-up involved in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19:
Belyntic GmbH is one of this year's winners of the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg. With this award, the jury honors the start-up, located in the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof, for its "unique…
German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) will be sustained
The network of nine universities becomes an integral part of the Leibniz Institute IPN under the direction of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
The German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM) will be a part of the newly established department “Subject-related knowledge transfer” at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)…
Sabine Kunst confirmed in office as the President of the Humboldt-Universität
For the first time in the history of the HU, the Council elects a female president for a second term of office:
Prof. Dr-Ing. Dr Sabine Kunst was re-elected by the Council of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on 17th November 2020, with 30 votes in favour, 18 against, and 5 rejected votes. Sabine Kunst has been President…
Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
Scientists reveal Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale
The material could allow data processing with significantly less energy input:
Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by…
The magic of transience
New on Instagram – Exploring the charm of forgotten places:
Adlershof reinvented itself after reunification. But some things outlived this historical turning point. Exactly how visible is former East Germany in Adlershof? We went out into the Science City to look for…
Order in the disorder
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
Oliver Arnhold (Reiner Lemoine Institut) and team win DIN Innovation Award
New DIN guideline accelerates the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles:
Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2020
Art, food and culture: Discover the unknown side of the Science City:
Discover the possibilities! An expedition through Adlershof // The magic of transience: exploring the charm of forgotten places // New headquarters of the machine building company Jonas & Redmann // An era of…
Where Fontane stopped rambling: A Technological Switzerland
Essay by Matthias Gerschwitz, a marketing and communications specialist, writer, and satirist:
Do you remember “Die Mundorgel”? The small red book and a collection of songs that people would belt out on bus rides, youth camps, and bonfires? It featured songs full of travelling tales and Wanderlust – which…
In conversation with Bernd Haase
A digitisation professional and big fan of the landscape park Johannisthal/Adlershof:
If you want to immerse yourself in the history of the Science City Adlershof, make a stop at Bernd Haase’s DSC Digital Service Center. As a qualified measurement technician, he worked for East German television in the…
The falafel artist
Walid Hreich supplies Adlershof with Oriental dishes:
Some of his customers now come all the way from Köpenick. Some as far as Tempelhof. And so, it is safe to say that, over the course of three years, this simple food stall in front of the Centre for IT and Media has…
Discover the possibilities!
How an apprentice, a researcher, and a young entrepreneur explore Adlershof:
There is life after work. We wanted to know what young people, who haven’t been working on the site for very long, do in their free time or during their lunch break? Do they have any good tips? A tour for discovering…
The culinary diversity of the Science City
From Mediterranean and Italian to Vietnamese – these are Adlershof’s newest restaurants:
Adlershof’s culinary diversity is growing. At three new restaurants, the owners, chefs, and cooks have created their own culinary world and are now luring in customers – not just at lunch time. Two of the showcased…