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Too warm for comfort
Climate researcher Tobias Sauter studies the melting of glaciers:
Nowhere are the effects of climate change more visible than in the world’s glaciers. The loss of ice masses is immense. Climate researcher Tobias Sauter investigates how and why the melting of glaciers is…
Electromobility: Saving costs and facilitating the energy transition through bidirectional charging
Analysis by the Reiner Lemoine Institute published on behalf of the Agora Verkehrswende think tank:
Feeding electricity from vehicle batteries into the grid can be financially worthwhile for users of e-cars and at the same time serve the electricity sector. This is illustrated by an analysis by the think tank Agora…
Breakthrough in attosecond science
Research team from MBI and DESY develops a plasma lens that can focus attosecond pulses, thereby overcoming significant limitations:
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has demonstrated a plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses. This breakthrough substantially increases the attosecond…
Crystals and careers
How research is turned into business:
New technologies require one thing above all else. They take time. It takes years for a good idea to grow into a viable spin-off,” says Thomas Schröder, director of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in…
Energy of charge carrier pairs in cuprate compounds
Measurements at BESSY II contribute to a better understanding of high-temperature superconductivity:
High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has measured the energy of charge carrier pairs in undoped La₂CuO₄. Their findings revealed that the…
Time matters
Which research questions call for short measurement times, and which analyses require longer ones? A brief journey through time and the Adlershof campus:
Watching molecular and atomic building blocks while they work? This is made possible by operando studies. Such deep insights at an atomic resolution are facilitated by BESSY II, a research facility operated by the…
Art with conviction
Core human values are made visible at the ST3AM workspaces in Adlershof and Charlottenburg:
Art in offices is often little more than a meaningless splash of colour on the wall. But it can be done differently. With a clear colour concept, artist Sarah Masura and interior designer Urve Liivak joined forces to…
Trailblazing spirit without role models
A book series about East Germany takes up the success story of the Adlershof Technology Park:
Adlershof is more than a tech site. It’s a symbol of what East Germany can achieve when courage, creativity and political will come together. The book series Denke ich anOstdeutschland … takes up this theme. When the…
Electrocatalysis with dual functionality – an overview
Synchrotron sources provide insights into complex reactions and can thus help in the development of hybrid electrolysers:
Hybrid electrocatalysts can produce green hydrogen, for example, and valuable organic compounds simultaneously. This promises economically viable applications. However, the complex catalytic reactions involved in…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2025
A question of time: How we oscillate between the speed of light and Zen:
ESSAY by Paul Bokowski: Laws of natureIN CONVERSATION WITH Tobias Hein, online marketing manager at LUMITOS AG, has a close on-off relationship with Technology Park AdlershofPORTRAIT The timekeeper: Oliver Fartmann is…
YSGAG: A Breakthrough Substrate for Quantum Magnonics from IKZ
New material allows quantum experiments at low temperatures:
Dr. Christo Guguschev and his team from the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), in collaboration with international partners, has developed and demonstrated a new diamagnetic substrate material, nearly…
Ladies Network Adlershof (LaNA) presents: Prof. Dr. Sangeeta Sharma
Head of the Department of Theory of Dynamics in Quantum Materials at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) at FVB e.V.:
Growing up in Delhi, India, the physicist dreamed of working as an engineer like her father. As she became older, she discovered her passion for theoretical aspects and began studying physics. Today, she is very…
Phosphorous chains – a 1D material with 1D electronic properties
One-dimensional electronic properties of a material were experimentally demonstrated for the first time at BESSY II:
For the first time, a team at BESSY II has succeeded in demonstrating the one-dimensional electronic properties of a material through a highly refined experimental process. The samples consisted of short chains of…
New findings about the ageing brain
Researchers from HU uncover genetic causes and modifiable risks in a study involving more than 56,000 participants:
Why do some brains age faster than others – and which factors play a role in this? Given the rise in life expectancy worldwide and the increase in age-related diseases such as dementia, answering this question is of…
What vibrating molecules might reveal about cell biology
At BESSY II, molecular vibrations in tiny biological samples can now be detected and analysed:
Infrared vibrational spectroscopy at BESSY II can be used to create high-resolution maps of molecules inside live cells and cell organelles in native aqueous environment, according to a new study by a team from HZB…
Winds blow across Mars at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour
New study with DLR participation helps to improve our understanding of the Martian atmospheric dynamics:
On Mars, ‘dust devils’ and winds reach speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour – stronger than previously thought. This is demonstrated by a new study from an international research team led by the University of…
Perovskite solar cells from Germany are competing with China’s PV technology
Kevin J. Prince and Siddhartha Garud receive HZB 2025 Technology Transfer Award:
Photovoltaics is the leading technology in the transition to clean energy. However, traditional silicon-based solar technology has reached its efficiency limit. Therefore, a HZB-team has developed a perovskite-based…
How supermarket parking lots help the energy supply in Berlin
Research project shows innovative solutions for electromobility:
Supermarket parking lots can help reduce the need for expansion of charging infrastructure in public spaces in Berlin by up to 17 percent. In the Retail4Multi-Use project, scientists from the Reiner Lemoine Institute…
HZB researcher awarded prestigious VAIBHAV Fellowship by Government of India
Dr. Prashanth Menezes honoured for his pioneering contributions to materials chemistry and catalysis:
The Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, has announced the recipients of the Vaishvik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Fellowship, a flagship initiative aimed at fostering collaboration between the…
Watching bandgaps in motion – attosecond interferometry of solids
Research team establishes a broadly applicable, all-optical probe of band-structure dynamics in solids:
The bandgap, i.e. the energy gap between the highest lying valence and the lowest lying conduction band, is a defining property of insulating solids, governing how they absorb light and conduct electricity. Tracking…