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Progress in solar technologies
EU group project presents its results: high efficiencies with less material:
A workshop entitled "European Solar Technology Forum – from Research to Industrial Application" took place at HZB to conclude of the European CHEETAH project on November 30, 2017. More than 100 participants from the…
Fresh ideas in particle and dispersion sciences
Nominated for LUM Young Scientist Award 2018:
The 8th International Conference Dispersion Analysis & Materials Testing is hosted by LUM GmbH in Berlin, Germany, from 29-30 January 2018. Here, during this now traditional interdisciplinary event, particle…
Smart battery for the world’s first floating wind farm
Younicos awarded by Statoil to provide a 1MW-battery storage system to Hywind Scotland:
Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm, will next year be equipped with a battery to store power from the wind farm. The purpose is to “teach” the battery when to hold back and store electricity, and…
Improving outdoor performance of thin film CIGS solar modules
PVcomB and AVANCIS launch joint MyCIGS research project:
The Competence Centre Thin-Film- and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) is contributing its expertise to improving copper-indium-gallium-sulphide (CIGS) thin-film production in the MyCIGS collaborative…
Miniaturised spectrometer wins first prize at international conference
Device from Helmholtz laboratory fits a box 10 cm on a side:
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) team together with experts at Ulm University and the University of Stuttgart have designed an electron spin resonance spectrometer that fits a box 10 cm on a side. The team presented…
Light facilitates “impossible” n-doping of organic semiconductors
Applications as light-emitting diodes and solar cells:
In an article that just appeared in Nature Materials, a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Princeton University demonstrates…
HZB scientists discovering future IT
Antiferromagnetic dysprosium reveals magnetic switching with less energy:
HZB scientists have identified a mechanism with which it may be possible to develop a form of magnetic storage that is faster and more energy-efficient. They compared how different forms of magnetic ordering in the…
Lightwave controlled nanoscale electron acceleration sets the pace
Extremely short electron bunches are key to many new applications including ultrafast electron microscopy and table-top free-electron lasers. A German team of physicists from Rostock University, the Max Born Institute…
BE-OPTICAL and PicoQuant – Pushing the envelope in medical imaging
Project focuses on achieving the next major advance in medical imaging, enabling advanced analysis of cells or tissues:
PicoQuant and the Humboldt University Berlin are co-hosting an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions of the Innovative Training Networks H2020 BE-OPTICAL…
Heike Rauer appointed Head of the DLR Institute of Planetary Research
Heike Rauer will be Head of the Institute of Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) from 1 November 2017. She follows in the footsteps of Tilman Spohn, who…
Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis
Prof. Norbert Koch was awarded:
At the IUPAC NMS-XIII conference in Nanjing, Professor Dr. Norbert Koch has been awarded the "Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis "of IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied…
Groundbreaking insights in basic research
Physicist Lisa Torlina receives Marthe Vogt Award for her doctoral dissertation at the Max Born Institute:
The Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) is granting this year’s Marthe Vogt Award to Dr Lisa Torlina for her doctoral dissertation in quantum mechanics. In the course of her work at the Max Born Institute for…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2017
A Healthy Balance: Active Staff and Good Careers:
Burnout – Time Bomb or Fantasy? // Stomach Drops and Cooking Spray: Hofmann & Sommer researches in the Technology Park // Pain free: Laser-based monitoring of blood sugar levels //
Burnout – Time Bomb or Fantasy?
Essay by Dr. Magnus Heier, neurologist, keynote speaker and radio host on Radioeins every Sunday:
Cynically speaking, there are three types of illness: the accidental, the honourable and the tough-luck-diseases. There’s not much to say about the accidental: you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and you get…
Tailor-made analytics from the Adlershof-based testing institute PiCA
In conversation with Andreas Mattulat, food chemist and CEO:
If you voluntarily get out of bed at 6 am to drive to your office in Adlershof, you are either an early bird or really enjoy what you’re doing. The latter is true for Andreas Mattulat. He is the founder and head of…
Power Sources from the Far East
Printing plant manager Mike Richter swears by Chinese relaxation techniques:
He sees himself as a bubbly person. It’s in his nature, says Mike Richter, who admits calling him “very bubbly” would also be true. On the other hand, he is also somebody that can “quickly unwind”: “I don’t need any…
Doing Things Better!
How the people working in Adlershof stay healthy and motivated:
A stressful job, pressure at home, a hectic schedule – this can put a lot strain on anyone. This can give rise to mental health issues – or even result in occupational burn out. Adlershof-based businesses show that we…
Pain free testing blood sugar levels
Adlershof startup is developing laser-based monitoring of patients with diabetes:
The more frequently diabetics measure their blood sugar levels, the more precise they can administer insulin. However, the measurements require a painful drop of blood every time. The young company DiaMonTech GmbH has…
Let’s Move!
Kickboxing, Aqua Fitness and the running community in Adlershof:
Taking the bike to work, yoga during lunchbreak, a quick run in the park after work or a football match with co-workers – there are many opportunities for the “brainworkers” of the Science City Adlershof to move and…
Stomach Drops and Cooking Spray
Hofmann & Sommer researches active substances in drugs, food and cosmetics in Adlershof:
While the history of Hofmann & Sommer hails back to 1906 in Königsee-Rottenbach in Thuringia, the company’s research department is an Adlershof youngster. For two years now, the department has been experimenting on…