News Archive
The asbestos scouts: On the hunt for the hazardous fibres
The analytics company LFM (Labor für Mikroanalytik) examines building materials for hazardous substances in low concentrations:
Labor für Mikroanalytik (LFM), an analytics company, was founded in Adlershof just one year ago. The main task of its employees is to trace asbestos and other hazardous mineral fibres. Their services are in high…
MBI researchers set new record for energy scaling of near-infrared light pulses
New compressor delivers above-terawatt 1.5-cycle pulses at kilohertz repetition rate:
Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new milestone in few-cycle pulse generation, breaking a 10-year-old record and achieving…
Optimize opto-electronic devices with new compact measuring system
HZB team receives Field Study Fellowship from the Helmholtz Association for the further development of the “LumY Pro” measuring device:
In order to develop efficient opto-electronic devices such as solar cells or LEDs, it is crucial to improve the quality of the semiconductors. To achieve this, it is necessary to determine the luminescence yield of…
First solar cells from an inkjet printer, now light-emitting diodes too
Team of HZB and HU Berlin succeeds in inkjet printing of perovskite LED:
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has succeeded for the first time in producing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) from a hybrid perovskite semiconductor…
ARIA invests € 2 Million in Inuru
Active packaging manufacturer will use funds to build a production line for sustainable luminous packaging and labelling products:
Inuru announced a € 2.3 Million Series-A funding round, led by the Warsaw based venture capital fund ARIA, to accelerate the production of affordable active packaging and labeling products. Inuru will use the fund to…
MagForce AG and affiliated European clinics support World Brain Tumor Day on 8 June
At virtual events, patients receive advice on treatment approaches with NanoTherm Therapy:
MagForce AG, a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, offering the NanoTherm Therapy System for the treatment of brain tumors, announced that they will together with…
LUM quality management system again certified according to ISO 9001:2015
LUM GmbH is a leading international provider of innovative measurement technology for particle characterization in the nano and micro range, for dispersion analysis and for materials testing:
Effective May 20, 2020, LUM continues to be certified, now for the scope: Design, production and marketing of measurement- and analysis techniques for particle, dispersion and materials characterization as well as…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,203 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2019) on an area of…
Unique measurement system for 5G-MIMO and space applications put into operation at FBH
State-of-the-art equipment for microelectronic research in Germany:
With the delivery of Keysight Technologies’ custom-designed wideband microwave downconverters, all key components for the novel 5G-MIMO system are now in place at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut. The system was funded within…
Fighting hospital germs with UVC light-emitting diodes
A novel LED irradiation system developed by the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut aims to kill microorganisms with ultra-short wave UV light – without side effects:
According to the Robert Koch Institute, 400,000 to 600,000 infections with hospital germs occur in Germany every year – about 10,000 to 20,000 people die from them (source: RKI). Since multidrug resistant (MDR)…
LTB has finally arrived in North America
Support for customers with branch office in Fremont California expanded:
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin is pleased to announce the foundation LTB Laser Technologies, Inc. established in Fremont, California, LTB Laser Technologies vastly improves our proximity to customers in North American…
New charging points for electric cars installed in Adlershof
Helmholtz Centre offers green electricity for employees' cars:
On 14 May 2020, two charging points for electric cars were installed near the BESSY II main building. But not only the hybrid company car fleet is to be charged here. Soon, employees will also have the opportunity to…
On the road to non-toxic and stable perovskite solar cells
International cooperation led by HZB has developed new materials with tin instead of lead:
The promising halide perovskite materials for solar energy conversion show high efficiencies, but this comes at a cost: The best perovskite materials incorporate toxic lead which poses a hazard to the environment. To…
How new materials increase the efficiency of direct ethanol fuel cells
Research group investigated novel composite membrane at BESSY II:
A group from Brazil and an HZB team have investigated a novel composite membrane for ethanol fuel cells. It consists of the polymer Nafion, in which nanoparticles of a titanium compound are embedded by the rarely…
Why permafrost might thaw sooner than expected
In a new study, experts (HU, AWI, University of Oslo) simulate various climate warming scenarios in northeast Siberia:
Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) and the University of Oslo have determined that much of the permafrost that is…
Graduate School "Advanced Materials": First admission of members
This April, the Graduate School "Advanced Materials" (GS-AM) admitted 22 doctoral students as members, from HU Berlin, FU Berlin, TU Berlin, and Potsdam Universität. The mission of GS-AM is to provide superior…
Corona research: Consortium of Berlin research and industry seeks active ingredients
The HZB is making all existing infrastructures available to the joint project:
The Berlin biotech company Molox GmbH and a team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have initiated a consortium of regional research groups and BASF. Together, they want to identify a starting point for the…
Adlershof Journal May/June 2020
Look at us go! Making flexible work work:
Homestudying: Digital semester at the Humboldt-Universität // Matter of trust: “Netzer, Weisweiler and a lack of clarity” // Meteorological intelligence: Why weather forecasts are important …
“Netzer, Weisweiler and a lack of clarity”: It’s all a question of trust
Essay by Dr. Reinhard K. Sprenger, leadership expert and management author:
It still is the match of the century for many and, at the same time, possibly the most dramatic crisis of leadership in German football: it’s the 1973 cup finals, Borussia Mönchengladbach against 1. FC Köln. Following…
Remote work from a psychological perspective
In conversation with Annekatrin Hoppe, work psychologist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, who’s research focuses on occupational health:
Her own research, teaching, management responsibility, on the one hand, and a family with two small children, on the other: Annekatrin Hoppe is currently juggling many balls in the air. As a work psychologist, she has…