News Archive
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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
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…
Optical companies from Adlershof will present their broadly expanded range of services at Photonics West 2015, the world’s largest industry trade show
Photonics cluster tripled its laboratory and production areas last year:
The Technology Park Berlin Adlershof – one of the most successful sites for photonics, optics, and microsystems technology in Germany – will be exhibiting in Hall D North, Booth 4601 / 45 at Photonics West 2015 in San…
Maximum efficiency, minimum materials and complexity
Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well:
The cell consists of many active layers, which taken together are less than one micron thick. The new hybrid solar cell is constructed of two extremely thin layers of amorphous silicon as well as an organic layer.…
New light shed on electron spin flips
HZB researchers enable calculation of EPR experiments:
Researchers from Berlin Joint EPR Lab at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and University of Washington (UW) derived a new set of equations that allows for calculating electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) transition…
Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors
Scientists gain exciting insights into the properties of ceramic materials at BESSY's Beamline:
Charge order has been established in another class of cuprate superconductors, highlighting the importance of the phenomenon as a general property of these high-Tc materials. The discovery of superconductivity in…
Watching Single Macromolecules Move in Response to Light
Nature has long inspired scientists with its seemingly unlimited ability to harness solar energy and to utilize it to drive various physiological processes. With the help of man-made molecular photoswitches, we now…
Europe’s Largest Battery Storage Project Becomes Operational in the UK
Adlershof’s Younicos contributes control software for 6MW/10MWh Smarter Network Storage Project:
Europe’s largest battery storage project has been officially opened by Amber Rudd, Minister at Department for Energy and Climate Change at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos…
Mars Express mission extended until the end of 2018
DLR’s Stereo Camera HRSC is the longest-serving German experiment in the Solar System:
It follows an elliptical orbit around Mars, undisturbed, almost lonely – the orbiter Mars Express. For 11 years now – to be precise since Christmas Eve 2003 – the first and, for some time now, European Space Agency…
Silver Nanoislands grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
SENTECH presented the new ALD Real Time Monitor at the NRW Nano-Conference:
The NRW Nano-Conference took place on 1st-2nd of December 2014 in Dortmund (Germany). This important conference welcomed its guests to participate the dialogue about opportunities and challenges of nanotechnology. At…
Lively exchange at User Meeting
More than 500 users of HZB's large-scale equipment met in Adlershof:
From December 3 to 5, more than 500 users of HZB's BER II and BESSY II large-scale equipment met up to discuss the current state of technology and exchange their views on pressing scientific issues. The Science Day…
Data transfer between satellites – quick as a wink
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut supplies a decisive component – a particularly robust and capable pump laser module:
Transferring high data rates in real-time twenty-four-seven – a research team, under the direction of the European Space Agency ESA, has now come significantly closer to this aim. For the first time, data have been…
Filming chemistry with a high speed x-ray camera
MBI Scientists show how breaking and making of chemical bonds during a reaction can be visualized:
Chemistry happens all around us. A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms in and between molecules, the breaking of old and the formation of new bonds. The glue that binds atoms in molecules and creates the…
Adlershof Special 37: Media
On air:
The Show before the Show // Setting the Stage // Setting the right tone
Tremendous ongoing changes
Editorial by Goetz Hoefer, Studio managing director Hamburg Berlin Brandenburg GmbH:
Around 2,000 companies from the television industry benefit from the outstanding conditions provided in the German capital region. This includes the UFA group, Europe's largest production company, and teamWorx, who…