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Sascha Kellert
25.02.2015

The Place to be

Editorial by Sascha Kellert, chairman of SIBB e.V. and manager of software start-up ezeep:

Berlin is not only a young and hip city, it is also a digital city that attracts drivers of industrial innovation like IT companies, high-skilled people, capital, and firms from all over the world. Over 60,000 people…

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25.02.2015

Big Data – what‘s next?

The flood of information – an issue at the Research Forum Adlershof:

Growing amounts of data and rapid developments in information technology are confronting Adlershof-based companies with new challenges. Events like the Research Forum Adlershof are bringing companies and researchers…

Project Future Living Berlin on campus Adlershof: Smart Technologies for new forms of living
25.02.2015

When your carpet calls you an ambulance

Solutions from Adlershof for home automation and assistance systems:

There is a growing demand for senior-friendly, intergenerational living and with that, a growing interest in home automation and assistance systems. Innovators in Adlershof are working on Ambient Assisted Living…

86,000 Atos employees worldwide use a set of social media tools to communicate
25.02.2015

The end of the email!

IT service provider Atos relies on efficient communication without electronic mail:

There is a flood spilling through offices, sweeping away the firm conviction that a quick email is a suitable tool for swiftly sorting out matters or solving problems. Some companies have already banned emailing after…

Online Platorm Fubalytics, Phizzard Shopping Tool
25.02.2015

Data for the changing room

Valuable tools for fashion retailers and football analysts:

40,000 football games across various leagues take place every weekend. Up to 10,000 videos are recorded at these games each time. The purchase probability at local retailers is only about ten to 15 percent, still five…

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25.02.2015

A neighborhood for secure data

Three IT companies from Adlershof protect sensitive data transactions:

Only a few metres apart, along the Am Studio road in Adlershof, a trio of independent companies is working on securing data traffic. Rohde & Schwarz SIT, the young consulting team sector red, and the German branch of…

Karsten Walther (left) and Klaus Hilger (right) from the Harting Group with Björn Scheuermann (center)
25.02.2015

Well connected

The proximity of business and science in Adlershof inspires innovation in computer technology:

The staff at Harting IT Software Development GmbH & Co. KG in Adlershof, now numbering six employees, has been tinkering with new information technology solutions for more than a year. “Our task is to develop machines…

CrystalCam by Crystal Photonics, Berlin Adlershof
24.02.2015

In search of the sentinel

Adlershof’s IT solutions for medical technology that modern diagnostics cannot do without:

Conworx Technology GmbH has been working on quality assurance in medicine since its founding in 1999. About 20 employees are working to optimise data management for clinics and laboratories at their headquarters in…

Ralph Meyfarth, founder and manager of lesswire
24.02.2015

Smart travelling

Adlershof is providing IT solutions in future mobility:

Travelling today using a long-distance bus, chances are that you will use technology from the Adlershof-based IT company lesswire. Bus passengers can surf the internet using their laptop or smartphone without…

19.02.2015

Minister Gabriel visits the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

“BAM sets high standards for Germany and the global markets”:

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, visited the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin today. BAM is a subordinate senior scientific and technical authority…

Magnetic layers
17.02.2015

BESSY: Insight into inner magnetic layers

Scientists’ research results can help in designing spintronic components:

Research teams from Paris, Madrid and Berlin have observed for the first time how magnetic domains mutually influence one another at interfaces of spintronic components. Using measurements taken at BESSY II, they…

Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
16.02.2015

Details of a crucial reaction

Physicists uncover oxidation process of carbon monoxide on a ruthenium surface:

An international team has observed the elusive intermediates that form when carbon monoxide is oxidized on a hot ruthenium metal surface. They used ultrafast X-ray and optical laser pulses at the SLAC National…

Credit: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
12.02.2015

Dance of the nanovortices

HZB researchers make trajectories of small magnetic entities visible:

The trajectories of small magnetic entities referred to as skyrmions have been captured and recorded with the help of X-ray holography. Researchers gained new insight from the analysis of this motion: these…

Reaction of SiO2 and TiO2 to a short pulsed light field
11.02.2015

Nonlinear resonance disaster in the light of ultrashort pulses

MBI scientists investigate different material responses in optical processes:

Ultrashort light pulses from modern lasers enable temporal resolution of even the fastest processes in molecules or solid-state materials. For example, chemical reactions can, in principle, be traced down to the…

Rohde und Schwarz SIT: SITLine
10.02.2015

New solutions for data center and smart grid security

Rohde & Schwarz SIT presents new performance classes of layer 2 network encryptors at the CeBIT / New encryption solution closes market gap:

The SITLine ETH4G provides network administrators with more flexibility concerning the planning of their infrastructures. For the first time worldwide, a single device simultaneously encrypts four lines in existing…

eagleyard DFB1064 laser diode
09.02.2015

Adlershof Know How for ISS

eagleyard Photonics is going to space with 1064 nm:

Eagleyard Photonics, a leading supplier of high-power laser diodes reaches out for ISS with its 1064 DFB laser diodes. Fiber coupled laser diodes manufactured by eagleyard photonics recently landed successfully on…

Nanodiamonds are tiny crystals only a few nanometres in size. Credit: Mohamed Sennour, MINES ParisTech
02.02.2015

Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered

HZB Researchers hope that their properties might be altered to permit nanodiamonds to be used as catalysts for generating hydrogen from sunlight:

Nanodiamonds are tiny crystals only a few nanometres in size. While they possess the crystalline structure of diamonds, their properties diverge considerably from those of their big brothers, because their surfaces…

Credit: HU Berlin
27.01.2015

The wolf – a winner of the breakdown of the Soviet Union

HU Biogeography Group analyses trends of mammal populations after the end of the Eastern Bloc:

The breakdown of the Soviet Union constitutes one of the most dramatic institutional and socioeconomic shocks of the 20th century. A new paper, led by Eugenia Bragina and just published in Conservation Biology,…

Artificial catalysts imitate natural photosynthesis. Image Credit: HZB
23.01.2015

The path to artificial photosynthesis

HZB researchers describe efficient manganese catalyst capable of converting light to chemical energy:

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have…

HZB team dancing BESSY-VSR
23.01.2015

HZB team dancing BESSY-VSR

Funny videos explain cavities in the electron storage ring:

Paul Goslawski from Godehard Wüstefeld's team was the initiator of this project: Why not demonstrate in vivid form, what the future project BESSY-VSR is all about? With novel cavities to be introduced in…