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Mars' North Pole – Chronicle of the Martian climate
A colour mosaic of Mars' north polar cap was created from 32 images acquired by the HRSC camera:
Mars' northern hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. A newly generated colour mosaic depicts the extraordinary, almost perfectly symmetrical pattern of Mars' north polar ice cap, 1100 kilometres in diameter.…
Green light for upgrading BESSY II into a variable-pulse-length storage ring (BESSY-VSR)
General Assembly of the Helmholtz Association unanimously endorses the realisation of a worldwide unique accelerator project at the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II:
The General Assembly of the Helmholtz Association unanimously supports Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin’s proposed concept for upgrading BESSY II into a variable-pulse-length storage ring (BESSY VSR). The body of chairpersons…
Solar based hydrogen generation: EU-project PECSYS aiming for technological breakthrough
Development of demonstrators measuring up to ten square meters in area planned:
The HZB is coordinating a Horizon 2020 EU project that is expected to develop an economically feasible technology for solar based hydrogen generation. Solar energy shall thereby be converted into chemical energy that…
Quantum optical sensor for the first time tested in space – with a laser system from Berlin
For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket. The MAIUS mission demonstrates that quantum optical sensors can be operated even in harsh…
The mobile phone that charges itself
PVcomB will help mass-produce the raw photovoltaic materials used in Wysips® technology / Sunpartner Technologies and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin sign license agreement:
The French company Sunpartner Technologies has been developing innovative solar solutions for nearly 10 years. One of these is Wysips,® an invisible or transparent photovoltaic film that transforms any surface into…
Finally united: Adlershof scientists combine seemingly disparate intuitive pictures of laser physics
MBI researchers show unified time and frequency picture of ultrafast atomic excitation in strong fields:
The insight that light sometimes needs to be treated as an electromagnetic wave and sometimes as a stream of energy quanta called photons is as old as quantum physics. In the case of interaction of strong laser fields…
TRUMPF Laser GmbH expands its Berlin Adlershof branch
Market leader in high-performance diode lasers acquires company specialised on pilot production / Growing interest of large companies in the research and development competencies in Berlin:
The Berlin Adlershof-based branch of TRUMPF Laser GmbH has been focusing on the pre-product development of diode lasers since October 2015. The company has now acquired the c2go inprocess solutions GmbH in Adlershof,…
7.4 million euros from the EFRE fund
HZB is setting up a new application laboratory for developing superconducting accelerator components:
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is receiving 7.4 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE). The money is being used to set up the application laboratory “SupraLab@HZB” for the advancement of…
Amplification of relativistic Electron Pulses by Direct Laser Field Acceleration
Controlled direct acceleration of electrons in very strong laser fields can offer a path towards ultra-compact accelerators. Such a direct acceleration requires rectification and decoupling of the oscillating…
Younicos concludes 2016 with record results
Battery storage company closes deals totaling 75 MW:
Energy storage pioneer Younicos was awarded contracts for a total of 75 megawatts (MW) in 2016, its first year under the stewardship of CEO Stephen L. Prince. Compared to 2015, this represents a record 400% growth…
Adlershof Journal January/February 2017
Knowledge isn’t built in a day: Ideas and innovation need time to grow:
Fishing Peptides: Innovative cleaning procedures for natural substances with a therapeutic effect // Child’s play? Early practice helps to master patience // Measuring Emotions How sensors help people with anxiety…
Don’t hurry: Things to learn from children’s book heroes
Essay by freelance journalist Paulina Czienskowski:
There is much to learn from watching the heroes of children’s books. One thing stands out: patience. They often go out in search of things. On their journeys through their reality, they show young people the many…
In conversation with Katharina Kitsos
The restaurant owner is bringing Greek cuisine to Adlershof:
Local admirers of the Mediterranean cuisine are enthusing about her homemade Greek specialties. Together with her husband Nikolaos, she opened her restaurant “Olympia” on Rudower Chaussee 5 in November 2016. The two…
The Crystal Grower
Mario Brützam matures crystals at IKZ:
It all comes down to the exact temperature. If the mass is too hot, the nucleus dissolves like a sugar cube in coffee. If it’s too cool, the crystals form “spontaneously” and are useless to their grower. When asked…
The world belongs to those that wait
On the perseverance of entrepreneurs and scientists from Adlershof:
Hardly any job ad nowadays is complete without mentioning “perseverance” in the requirements. But what does that mean in practice? Is it the key to success? We have asked entrepreneurs and scientists from Adlershof…
Tenacity required
Technology parks need more than one election period for success:
Technology park developers must be far-sighted planners as well as smart and eager networkers. Apart from the courage to go down new paths, they have to be but one thing: tenacious. The iniators of such high-tech…
Child’s play? Early practice helps to master patience
Day care worker Anne Schenke tells us about her day-to-day in child care:
Anne Schenke, who is a day care worker at the Kita Am Studio, says her job is the best in the world. She is a patient person and practices that every day. A sense of calm needs cultivation. The 103 children of the…
Highly specialised optical fibres
art photonics GmbH develops spectroscopy systems for instant analysis in operating rooms:
The art photonics GmbH is one of the bedrock companies of Adlershof. Founder and manager Viacheslav Artyushenko and his team of 30 employees have been developing and manufacturing custom-made optical fibres for…
The Master of Plucking Strings
How soundtrack composer Moritz Denis gets ideas for his music:
Why weren’t any shots fired at the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig in 1989? A new comedy of errors featuring Erich Honecker and a doppelganger, which will be in cinemas in March 2017, tries to give an answer to this…
Measuring Emotions
HU computer scientist develops sensors that help people with anxiety disorders:
Sweating, heart racing, shaking: can emotions be identified from physical responses? Yes, says the PhD student Monika Domanska. She is using sensors to decipher physical responses at the Institute for Computer Science…