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26.02.2021
HZB-Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
SSMB source combines advantages of synchrotron light with the benefits of FEL pulses:
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are. Accelerator experts from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the German federal...

25.02.2021
Precision landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars
DLR Adlershof is contributing a wide range of scientific expertise:
On 18 February 2021, NASA initiated the most precise landing ever attempted on the Red Planet. A spacecraft with the Perseverance rover on board entered the Martian atmosphere at just under 19,500 kilometres per hour. Within...

22.02.2021
The perfect recipe for efficient perovskite solar cells
HZB team improved the composition of material inks for the simple and cost-effective production of solar cells:
A long-cherished dream of materials researchers is a solar cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy as efficiently as silicon, but that can be easily and inexpensively fabricated from abundant materials. Scientists...
18.02.2021
Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
The Swedish Chalmers University of Technology honours the scientist from HU Berlin and DLR for his contribution to research in the field of terahertz components:
Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers is a professor at Humboldt-University Berlin and the director of the Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfart, DLR (German Aerospace Center), which focuses on...

12.02.2021
Optimised transistors: creating a metal with laser light
Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin make discovery that could increase computing power:
From smartphones to computer processors – much of the technology we nowadays use heavily features transistors. They connect many of the different materials that make up these devices, and are essential for any kind of data...
Adlershof Journal Jan/Feb 2021
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13th International Course on “Time-resolved Microscopy and Correlation Spectroscopy”
online
15.30 - 17.30
Symposium 150 Jahre BAM: Vertrauen in Zukunftstechnologien
Digitales Symposium
13.00 - 15.00 Frauenvollversammlung zum Internationalen Frauentag an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ONLINE
10.00 - 16.00
T5 JobMesse Berlin Adlershof
Rudower Chaussee 17,
12489 Berlin
11.45 - 12.45 LaNA-Mittagsstammtisch
14.00
MBI Colloquium: Revealing photoionization dynamics using attosecond spectroscopy
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