Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II
Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) is researching into complex material systems that will help us to achieve humanity’s challenging goals, such as the Energiewende – Germany’s ambitious transition to renewable energies. Important research topics include solar cells, solar fuels, thermoelectrics and novel materials for developing a new and energy-efficient form of information technology (spintronics). Research into these energy materials heavily involves the operation and continuous advancement of the electron storage ring BESSY II, which produces high-brilliancy synchrotron radiation in the terahertz to soft X-ray frequency range.
Partners from industry and research have many opportunities for cooperating with HZB. Together with universities, HZB runs several graduate schools, where young researchers can complete their doctoral theses.
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Team at HZB has analysed structural data of photovoltaic materials with a novel model
Researchers from HZB and University of Utah, USA, have shown how contact layers of silicon solar cells generate loss currents and what their physical ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been awarded the seal of quality for its corporate compatibility policy since 2011
With a new instrument at BESSY II, they show how light activates MoS₂ layers to become catalysts
SSMB source combines advantages of synchrotron light with the benefits of FEL pulses
HZB team improved the composition of material inks for the simple and cost-effective production of solar cells
With the help of the scanning transmission X-ray microscope MAXYMUS at BESSY II, the first recording of the recurring periodic magnetization structure ...
