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Synchrotrons accelerate corona research
Research funding is key – Information by the German Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation:
Synchrotron light sources were originally built to study particles. Today, they are even used in the fight against COVID-19. The projects are as diverse as the fields of the synchrotron users, who come from…
CHEOPS characterises three planets with some extraordinary properties
DLR planetary researchers support the mission and help with data analysis:
The European Space Agency (ESA) space telescope Characterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) has been observing a previously known planetary system. With the high-precision measurements performed by CHEOPS, its three…
World record in electron microscope resolution with crystals from the IKZ
Special crystals show atoms with the highest level of detail :
An international team of researchers has succeeded in achieving the world's highest electron microscope resolution to date. The Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung provided the decisive material for this world…
A place of well-being
About the status quo of residential construction in Adlershof’s Science City and what else is planned:
Sabrina Böttcher is the group leader of the Special Department Residential Construction-Project Management and Urban Land-Use Planning at the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing. In the WISTA magazine…
Tailwind for top research in Germany
Research centers of the Helmholtz Association present upgrade strategy for accelerator-based facilities:
Three research centres in the Helmholtz Association have developed a joint future plan for the research conducted at the scientific light sources they operate in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The upgrades proposed in…
Growing communities and vegetables
Feeding cities sustainably and strengthening social cohesion – that's what PlattenBaum UG is planning:
It’s about growing fresh vegetables on the outside of panel houses, meeting people in greenhouses and community gardens, and the universal power of connecting through gardening. Maayan Strauss and Kerem Halbrecht…
Honey, we shrunk the intense XUV laser
International team of scientists with MBI participation demonstrates new concept for generating XUV radiation:
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for the generation of intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high-harmonic generation (HHG). Its advantage lies in the fact that its…
Space as a third teacher
The construction of a new school on Hermann-Dorner-Allee in Adlershof brings together modern architecture with modern teaching concepts:
Asked about his childhood school, Jens Wadle, district head for new school buildings at HOWOGE Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH, remembers “a school bulding with little green areas and open spaces”. The words “uninviting…
Dr. Kathrin Goldammer is spokeswoman for the energy technology cluster
The RLI Managing Director has been appointed as spokesperson for the joint energy technology cluster of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer has been appointed by Berlin’s Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop and Brandenburg’s Minister of Economic Affairs Prof. Jörg Steinbach as spokesperson for the Energy…
Renske van der Veen heads new department “Atomic Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion” at HZB
The researcher studies catalytic processes that enable the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy:
From June 2021, Dr. Renske van der Veen is setting up a new research group at HZB. The chemist is an expert in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy and electron microscopy and studies catalytic processes that enable the…
A New Light on Quantum Science
Research team has, for the first time, directly measured the particle exchange phase of photons:
A research team of the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin together with cooperation partners Max Born Institute (Berlin) and DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems (Berlin) has, for the first…
Research team elucidates complex spectrum of trace compounds in the first artificial pigment of mankind
Early Medieval Egyptian blue in laser light:
Art technologist Dr. Petra Dariz and analytical chemist Dr. Thomas Schmid (School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM)…
Prospects of opening up for Berlin’s universities and colleges
More presence on campus possible again from June:
In view of the steadily falling incidence values, preparations are being made for initial steps to open up the universities and colleges in Berlin. After more than a year of operating largely in digital mode, and with…
Insights into Research Training Group „Rethinking Quantum Field Theory“
New video about the promotion of early-career researchers at IRIS Adlershof:
Last year, the Research Training Group (RTG 2575) “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started its work. The graduate programme for young academics is based at the…
Perovskite solar cells: Hydrogen bonds measured
Research results provide important information for perovskites materials research for solar cells:
The evaluation of X-ray measurements on methylammonium perovskite semiconductors now shows what role hydrogen bonds play in these materials. In addition, the HZB team showed that radiation damage by soft X-rays to…
HPS Home Power Solutions joins the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance
The Alliance is part of the European hydrogen strategy to support a sustainable hydrogen economy:
Berlin-based HPS Home Power Solutions, provider of picea, the world's first home solar-hydrogen power plant for completely independent carbon-free electricity use, today announced that it is joining the European Clean…
High-performance ion implanter put into operation
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut extends the technical capabilities for the development of innovative semiconductor devices:
The Berlin-based Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) recently put a sophisticated ion implanter system from High Voltage Engineering Europa B.V. into operation. The highly versatile tool extends the technological…
Creating and reshuffling skyrmions ultrafast
Team from MBI, HZB and MIT researches skyrmions – small magnetic textures that may become an ingredient in novel memory and logic devices:
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are continuously explored. Small magnetic textures, so-called skyrmions, may…
Operando Analysis of Aging Mechanism in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
PTB team investigates causes for the capacity decrease:
High-energy density batteries play a crucial role for renewables, both as stationary storage system as well as for electric automotive applications. Every battery suffers under degradation effects leading to capacity…
Exploring the potential of quantum digital transformation
Launch of the first Einstein Research Unit of the Berlin University Alliance on the topic of quantum computing:
Quantum computers are seen as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. How can they revolutionize the computational power of computers? What new insights do they offer for high energy physics or quantum…