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Adlershof Journal January/February 2023
Back to the Future – The next chapter:
Where the future materialises: New research centre for hybrid materials // Together, aware of history, open and future-oriented: The president of Humboldt-Universität in conversation // En route to carbon-neutral…
Together, historically aware, open-minded, and future-oriented
In conversation with Julia von Blumenthal, who has been president of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) since 1 October 2022:
Adlershof Journal: What priorities have you set for your term in office? Julia von Blumenthal: We as a society are facing enormous challenges due to the multitude of current crises and developments – just think for a…
The digital city – the future of places generating future innovation
Essay by Dr. Hans-Hermann Albers, architect, urban researcher, and consultant from Berlin:
For almost two decades now, the digitalisation of cities has been a stand-out issue in the international discourse around urban development. On the one hand, this discussion is about constructing entirely new “cities…
An eye on the future
The Zukunftsorte Business Office aims to network Berlin's research and development locations more closely and create free space for innovation:
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Alan Kay is credited as the inventor of the term “personal computer” and was one of the computer scientists who always kept in mind the practical use that their…
An ecosystem for the transition to green chemistry
The “GreenCHEM” initiative aims to establish the capital’s metropolitan region as a European centre for green chemistry:
Three universities, two chemical companies, and a growing network of industry and research are planning to establish the capital’s metropolitan region as a European centre for green chemistry. The federal government…
Heat from the depths of the earth
BTB is pursuing a storage project to improve the sustainability of Berlin’s energy supply:
In a pilot project that is one of its kind in Germany, BTB GmbH, an energy provider, wants to make district heating supply more climate-friendly by integrating a seasonal geothermal heat storage facility. Exploratory…
Step by step
The start-up Pendulum is simplifying gait analysis:
Staying fit into old age – who wouldn’t want that? However, the first signs of diseases are typically only visible to people who have the necessary training and expertise. Medical professionals call these changes…
A hint of Sicily in Adlershof
A German-Italian food truck serves up gourmet sandwiches and burgers:
Once upon a time, a Sicilian and a German cook met at an Austrian restaurant. Together, they founded “FOOD – Taste of the world on the road”, a food truck serving gourmet sandwiches, which has been a permanent fixture…
“Ours is not a supporting role but a main role”
Anne Becker of Adlershofer Fundus, Adlershof’s prop and costume inventory, about the striking similarities to the hierarchical world of the film “The Ordinaries”:
A visit to Adlershofer Fundus can be overwhelming. On an area of 4,000 square metres in a cellar of Ernst-Augustin-Strasse 7, you will find the crowns of kings and knight’s armour, bus stop signs, old books, bags,…
FBH at Photonics West 2023
The institute presents new and advanced semiconductor light sources at the fair :
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) will present its developments and advancements in diode lasers and UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in person at Photonics West 2023, San Francisco (USA). The FBH is both represented…
New software based on Artificial Intelligence helps to interpret complex data
HZB-Team entwickelt Software, um die Datenauswertung von Experimenten deutlich zu verbessern:
Experimental data is often not only highly dimensional, but also noisy and full of artefacts. This makes it difficult to interpret the data. Now a team at HZB has designed software that uses self-learning neural…
High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen
Bone samples from fish and mammals were analysed at BESSY II before and after X-ray irradiation:
A team of medical researchers at Charité has analyzed damage by focused high energetic X-rays in bone samples from fish and mammals at BESSY II. With a combination of microscopy techniques, the scientists could…
New head for the R&D team at TOPTICA EAGLEYARD
Dr. Björn Globisch wants to further research and development activities in the company:
With the addition of Dr. Björn Globisch, TOPTICA EAGLEYARD is completely restructuring its Research & Development Team for 2023/2024. "After ten years spent researching terahertz sensor technology, l'm now…
World record back at HZB
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency:
The current world record of tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell is once again at HZB. The new tandem solar cell converts 32.5 % of the incident solar radiation into…
HZB cooperates with solar module manufacturer Meyer Burger
On the way to mass production: perovskite silicon tandem cells:
In order to transfer tandem solar cells from laboratory scale to production, HZB is cooperating with the solar module manufacturer Meyer Burger, which has great expertise in heterojunction technology (HJT) for silicon…
FBH involved in research fab for quantum and neuromorphic computing
Germany-wide cooperation »FMD-QNC« has started:
The Germany-wide cooperation of FMD (Research Fab Microelectronics Germany) with other partners on quantum and neuromorphic computing (FMD-QNC) has started. The development of the necessary technical and structural…
Dr. Eike Köhnen from HZB is honoured with the Tiburtius Prize
The award honors his outstanding dissertation and his research work on tandem solar cells with perovskites:
On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, Dr. Eike Köhnen received the Tiburtius Prize (First Place) for outstanding dissertations. Eike Köhnen has contributed to significantly increasing the efficiency of tandem solar cells made…
Nanodiamonds can be activated as photocatalysts with sunlight
Research team at HZB investigated nanodiamond materials that might be able to convert CO₂ into hydrocarbons or N₂ into ammonia in the future:
Nanodiamond materials have potential as low-cost photocatalysts. But until now, such carbon nanoparticles required high-energy UV light to become active. The DIACAT consortium has therefore produced and analysed…
Kathrin Goldammer becomes member of German-Japanese Energy Transition Council
The council aims to promote scientific exchange on energy transition issues between the two countries:
The German Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) has appointed RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer as a member. At the council’s recent meeting in Berlin on November 28-29, she will attend the meeting for the…
New Leibniz Junior Research Group at Max Born Institute
Dr Daniel Schick is in charge of investigating fundamental aspects of ultrafast magnetization dynamics on the nanoscale using laser-driven soft-X-ray sources:
Starting in January 2023, the research portfolio of the Max Born Institute will be complemented by a new Junior Research Group led by Dr. Daniel Schick. His proposal “Following Complex Spin Structures in Time and…