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Adlershof company TIWARI offers online service for 3D printing of metals and ceramics
RAPTOR technology enables cost-effective 3D printing:
TIWARI Scientific Instruments is a hardware-oriented company, currently incubated by the European Space Agency (ESA), and aiming at leveraging their strong connection to the Space industry for accelerating…
High-Quality Crystals for Advanced Research
DESY and Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung sign cooperation agreement:
Cooperation between DESY and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) will literally become closer in the future. The Berlin Leibniz-Institute will establish a branch office on the Hamburg campus. Last week,…
Production facilities for silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum
New facilities pave the way for industrial-scale production:
Perovskites are regarded as promising materials for solar cells, able to be manufactured at low cost while at the same time being extremely efficient. They are particularly suitable for tandem solar cells that combine…
Efficient conversion of the wavelength
By “upconversion” of photons, researchers at HZB and BAM achieve an up to a one-thousand-fold increase in the electric field strength of the light waves:
The region of the spectrum that can be utilised for producing electrical energy can be considerably extended by converting low-energy (longer wavelength) photons into high-energy (shorter wavelength) photons. But so…
Adlershof Journal September/October 2020
Staying in touch: networking in an era of social distancing:
Regional and digital: Mixed Reality for Business // Healthy in Adlershof: From company relay race to reflection workshop // Leading the charge: Environmentally friendly corporate fleets //
ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit
The researcher is investigating a new class of materials for energy storage at Helmholtz-Zentrum:
Dr. Tristan Petit has received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for 1.5 million euros over the next five years. The materials researcher will use the grant to investigate a new class of…
Strong fields and ultrafast motions
Experiments at the Max Born Institute demonstrate how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water:
Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in their environment. New experiments demonstrate how in presence of such fields free electrons are…
Change at the top of the Berlin laser diode manufacturer TOPTICA eagleyard
Claus Heitmann succeeds Dirk Schumann:
As of 9/1/2020 Dipl.-Ing. Claus Heitmann joins the management of TOPTICA eagleyard as Managing Director in Berlin alongside Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Muchametow. Claus Heitmann studied microsystems technology engineering and…
Distinguished Service Award for Wolfgang Heinrich
FBH researcher was honoured for outstanding contributions to the IEEE MTT Society and the microwave profession:
Wolfgang Heinrich was honored with the IEEE MTT Distinguished Service Award 2020. The prize recognizes his significant contributions and outstanding service to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the…
Eight billion world powers and I: On the relationship of the community and the individual
Essay by Nora Lessing, science writer from Berlin:
We call him The Joker. Casually steering his frog-green sports car with one hand, he whizzes past our house every evening, circling the block. He controls his car as well as our destinies: when The Joker comes from…
In conversation with Sanela Schlößer
The event manager and networker at IGAFA is involved in the women's network LaNA:
Bumbar, which is Croatian for ‘bumblebee’, is Sanela Schlößer’s maiden name. She has Croatian roots because her parents came to Germany as guest workers in the 1970s. She was born and raised in Kassel. The non-German…
IT and Electromobility
Lars Zemke solves IT problems and is an advocate for light electric vehicles:
It took a while until he was able to say: ‘I’m slowly becoming an Adlershoferian,’ he says. Just when he got used to saying it, the pandemic drove him out of his office at ‘Am Studio’ located in the former Solon…
Regional and digital
Adlershof-based IT company X-Visual is working with the HTW to create a concept for industrial mixed-reality applications:
Digitisation, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are revolutionising how industrial facilities are planned, built, and operated. The Adlershof-based software developer X-Visual Technologies has been a…
Paving the way for environmentally friendly corporate fleets
In Adlershof, companies leading the charge for electric vehicles have found pragmatic ways of dealing with the existing hurdles:
The number of registered electric vehicles is on the rise. In Adlershof, too, more and more electric vehicles are being added to company fleets. This raises the question whether expanding the charging infrastructure…
Crisis? What Crisis?
Despite the bleak outlook of economic research institutes, there are companies that continue their path to growth – two examples from Adlershof:
These are difficult times for many companies. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, economic research institutes are foreseeing a wave of bankruptcies. Despite this bleak outlook, however, there are still many stories with a…
Webinars replacing face-to-face events
BAM gets creative in the wake of the coronavirus crisis:
Need is the mother of invention. The solution is often right in front of us. When the pandemic threw planning into disarray, the team of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) got pretty…
From company relay race to reflection workshop
Service offering from the Adlershof Health Network for the Science City’s employees:
Annika Huber-Lieske could not reveal to us whether any of the relay race’s colourful teams from last year would be standing on this year’s starting line. But on 3 September 2020, it is indeed ‘ready, set, go’ for the…
A point guard in the quantum world
The Scottish photonics specialist M Squared now has a facility in Adlershof:
M Squared has made a name for itself in the photonics industry as a provider of high-end lasers and instruments for use in quantum technology, biophotonics, and chemical sensing. The Glasgow-based company is now…
Research group of the FU Berlin and the HZB develop new method to shorten computing times
Mathematical tool helps calculate properties of quantum materials more quickly:
Many quantum materials have been nearly impossible to simulate mathematically because the computing time required is too long. Now a joint research group at Freie Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin…
HZB investigated the best electrolyser-photovoltaic combinations
The PECSYS project tested different combinations of materials and technologies:
One of the most promising ways to increase the availability of solar energy is to convert excess production into hydrogen. The PECSYS project has investigated the best possible material and technology combinations to…