News Archive

The good smile and the bad
How other people’s body language interacts with what we know about their biography:
What shapes our first impression upon looking into a person’s face? Humboldt scholarship holder Julia Baum examines how other people’s body language interacts with what we know about them as part of the research group…

Films from the Nanoworld
Stefan Eisebitt uses ultrafast light pulses to turn off or reverse magnetisation:
Stefan Eisebitt gets to the bottom of things. He uses ultrafast light pulses to not only examine the properties of matter in their “resting state”, but also to see how the excitement of electrons affects the…

Learn, learn and keep learning
LUM successfully started education offensive 2016 in China:
In collaboration of LUM GmbH Berlin and its Chinese subsidiary LUM (Changzhou) Instruments Co., Ltd. (LUM China), first the local Chinese sales partners were technically trained for all LUM product lines for …

PicoQuant – Counting Photons since 20 Years
Company celebrates 20 years of excellence in time-resolved optical instrumentation:
In 1996, four young scientists and engineers set themselves the goal to develop optical instrumentation designed by scientists for scientists and thus founded the company PicoQuant. Support from the Federal Ministry…
From Wafer to End Product in Under 8 Weeks
AEMtec expands portfolio to include one-stop services for microchip placement:
AEMtec GmbH, a member company of the international technology group exceet, has expanded its value chain in microchip placement. The experienced electronics specialist, which maintains its own cleanroom …

Methodology advance at HZB
Ionic liquids simplify laser experiments on liquid samples:
An HZB team has developed a new approach to conduct photoemission spectroscopy of molecules in solution. This has been difficult up to now because the sample needed to be situated in vacuum – but liquids evaporate.…

Ocean rogue waves: a mystery unveiled?
MBI researchers report new approach to the measurement of wave motion:
Rogue waves are extremely high ocean waves that exceed the significant wave height by more than a factor of 2. Extreme waves are also very rare; less than one in 100,000 waves exceeds the rogue wave criterion.…
New combinations of materials for producing magnetic monopoles
Materials system for future energy-efficient data storage:
An international collaboration at BESSY II has discovered a new method to inscribe exotic magnetic patterns such as magnetic monopoles into thin ferromagnetic films. Such unconventional orientation of magnetic…

The Plasma Start-up
Homogeneous layers and precise structuring for opto- and microelectronic components:
The Golares GmbH is a newly established spin-off of the Leibniz-Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ). At the Centre for Photonics and Optics in Adlershof, two founders are advancing a procedure for high-precision and…

Quantum Friction: Beyond the local equilibrium approximation
Scientists from HU and Max-Born-Institute report on detailed new physical insights:
Systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium are very common in nature. In recent years they have attracted constantly growing attention because of their relevance for fundamental physics as well as for modern…

Sicoya won the European Photonics Start-up challenge at Micro Photonics
The company received a cash prize of €4,000, a business coaching package worth €1,500, and various promotions in industry journals. In the competition, which is part of the European outreach program Photonics4All,…

Younicos' battery park project to triple its capacity
Groundbreaking for expansion of the Schwerin battery power plant:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Minister of Energy, Christian Pegel, was in attendance on 5th October as German utility WEMAG, in partnership with storage software leader Younicos, began the construction on a project that…

Adlershof Special 47
The Berlin mixture: Adlershof´s got it all:
A magnet for new firms // Road map for the future // Smart living concepts //

Adlershof has the right mix
Editorial by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary in the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment:
The science, business and media hub in the south-east of Berlin is booming and gradually becoming a lively and vibrant district. There is an increasing number of occasions to get an idea of the progress of various…

Rudower Chaussee: a good mix
New projects and arrivals show just how attractive Adlershof’s high street has become:
When it was announced that project developer Corpus Sireo would be building a new administrative building for the financial services company Allianz on Rudower Chaussee, with 60,000 square metres of rentable office…

A magnet for new firms
More and more companies are moving to Adlershof:
The current hotspot for new business arrivals is Wagner-Régeny-Straße, which heads north from Rudower Chaussee. The Adlershof Projekt’s sales team successfully divided a plot and sold it to four firms. What these…

Professional, efficient, and successful
kba embraces Adlershof:
“Building in a cost-effective, efficient way and at a high-quality level while fulfilling top architectural standards – that’s the challenge we set ourselves, time and again,” explains David Lehmann, Managing Director…

A place of opportunities
Adlershof is becoming an increasingly attractive place to live:
A residential area should be lively, green and well connected, with every opportunity for housing, work and enjoying leisure time. Nothing can compare with seeing an urban location grow and flourish. Adlershof is…

OfficeLab – commercial space for the 21st century
immexa is developing multifunctional buildings:
The clean room next to the high-calibre showroom, the test area, which is cushioned for vibrations, wall to wall with a modern, open-plan office – the future of commercial property is in multifunctional buildings.…

Smart living concepts take root
“Wohnen am Campus” – a high-quality mixture of rental properties and home ownership – will be practically complete by 2017:
Berlin’s reputation as an urban metropolis is more popular than ever before. For this reason alone, every new home is a bonus for the city. Back in 2008/2009, Adlershof Projekt GmbH (AP) saw this need coming and,…