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Wanted: Impulses for UV LED based application fields
Idea challenge launched:
UV LEDs have the power to make the daily household life significantly more comfortable. But where and how are UV LEDs usable? This is the question Advanced UV for Life needs to be answered. The aim of the idea contest…
350 million euros for future technologies
Research factory for micro- and nanoelectronics:
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides 350 million Euros for building a cross-institutional research factory for micro- and nanoelectronics. The joint initiative of Fraunhofer and Leibniz institutes…
Finding and understanding low cost catalysts
It all comes down to the iron:
A team has investigated more than one hundred iron-nickel catalysts containing various admixtures of chromium. At BESSY II, they also analysed the configurations of the electrons in the individual elements. The team…
Sicoya wins ‘Start Up Energy Transition Award’
Innovative business ideas for the energy tradition rewarded:
The winners of the ‘Start Up Energy Transition Award’, presented by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) – the German Energy Agency – have now been confirmed. Six start-ups from France, Germany, India, Bangladesh and…
Graciosa Microgrid System Proves Environmental Benefits
Forschungszentrum Jülich confirms significant advantages of the renewable energy system on the Azorian Island:
A study by the renowned German research institute Forschungszentrum Jülich has quantified significant environmental benefits derived from the world’s first megawatt-scale grid-forming battery system. Analyzing the…
Center for Laser Materials launched
World-leading research environment for laser research established in Adlershof:
The Zentrum für Lasermaterialien-Kristalle (Center for Laser Materials-Crystals, ZLM-K) is currently installed at the IKZ in the framework of the BMBF-project EQuila on the research and qualification of innovative…
Nanostructures give directions to efficient laser-proton accelerators
MBI Scientists investigate benefits of nanostructured surfaces:
Nanostructured surfaces have manifold applications. Among others they are used to selectively increase aborption of light. You can find them everywhere, where light harvesting is the key point, e.g. in photovoltaics.…
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 1,041 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2016) on an area of 4.2…
How to increase efficiencies of ultrathin CIGSe solar cells
Nanoparticles at the back help harvesting the light:
Ultrathin CIGSe solar cells need much less rare earth elements and energy for production. Unfortunately, they are much less efficient too. Now a team at HZB together with a group in the Netherlands has shown how to…
Highly sensitive method for detecting ion pairs in aqueous solution developed
For the first time, scientists detect the specific non-local electron transfer process in water:
Scientists of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Heidelberg, and the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague have empirically detected a very specialised type of electron…
HZB and Freie Universität Berlin are establishing the joint research group “Macromolecular Crystallography”
This practical education for budding biochemists is unique in Germany:
For eight years, HZB’s “Macromolecular Crystallography” workgroup has been successfully cooperating with the “Structural Biochemistry” research group headed by Prof. Markus Wahl at the Freie Universität Berlin. They…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2017
The High Energy Neighbourhood: How We Recharge Our Batteries:
View into EMIL: Research on new energy materials // Access control: IT company entri develops software-based systems // Pocket-Sized Laboratory: Legionella quick test developed //
Earth Hour – Saving the world in 60 minutes?
The world will turn off the lights again on March 25th:
Would you like to feel like James Bond and save the world just a tiny bit? If so, the Earth Hour organised by the WWF is just the thing for you. You turn off the lights for one hour once a year and save the earth from…
In conversation with Tobias Kirschnick
Head of the Innovation and Business Incubation Centre (IGZ) in Adlershof since October:
In this interview, Tobias Kirschnick lets us in on his plans for the centre’s reorganisation. Kirschnick, who is now in his late thirties, started off with a degree in business management at the Free University…
With Passion
Anton Nagy builds testing facilities for customers from the chemical industry and is fascinated by Berlin:
Berlin in the 1990s: “Really awesome!” His successful application as a PhD student at the Fritz-Haber-Institute and the collegiality back then: “Really awesome.” When you meet Anton Nagy, you experience a person who…
A Model Neighborhood for Energy Efficiency
How the Science City Adlershof will save a third in primary energy consumption:
Intelligent technologies will help the Science City Berlin Adlershof, which covers an area of 420 hectares, become energy-efficient. A project network has been aiding the process with key insights. The goal was…
Efficient and convenient
Energy-efficient living in so-called Plus-Energy-Houses and so-called “Powerhouses”:
Many single-family houses are now increasingly built as passive or plus-energy houses. Several Adlershof-based projects aim to show that multi-family residential homes can also combine high energy efficiency with a…
Going Strong after 25 Years
Loptek, a company specialised on fibre glass, has moved manufacturing to the Technology Park:
2017 was a special year for Loptek GmbH & Co. KG. The company, which specialises on fibre optical light guides, fiber optic systems and precision mechanics, moved into its brand-new headquarters in Adlershof at the…
The Welcome System
The IT company entri developes software-based systems for access control:
Visitors are greeted by the word “entri” in huge, blue letters when they enter through the glass front door. Naturally, a company named “entri” would excel at welcoming guests to its headquarters. It’s their business…
Why Scientists X-ray Solar Cells
The electron storage ring BESSY II and the transition to clean energy:
Researchers at the “EMIL” laboratory of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH explore possible components for the Energiewende – Germany’s transition to clean energy. One group exposes material…