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From insulator to conductor in a flash
MBI scientists gain deep insights into the materials of the future using ultrashort laser pulses:
Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical…
Adlershof Special 49
Smart and networked:
Come together: Cooperations for good // Grapevine and grey power: Tenants in the Coworking Space IM.PULS // The bridge builders: Innovation and research at IRIS //
Scientists from Max Born Institute report an ultrafast x-ray experiment
Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals:
Ferroelectric crystals display a macroscopic electric polarization, a superposition of many dipoles at the atomic scale which originate from spatially separated electrons and atomic nuclei. The macroscopic…
Clear priorities
Editorial by Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Spain:
The irruption of the science park concept meant a revolution in the way spaces to host businesses and, in general, economic activity were conceived. The rise of the knowledge economy engendered new technologies, new…
Cooperation projects are part of the Campus Adlershof DNA
Managers of the operating company WISTA consider themselves as architects of proximity:
Initiating, forging, and supporting cooperation projects is an essential ingredient of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH’s contribution to the Adlershof recipe for success. “We are not only a site operator and property manager,…
Well networked for the future
Short paths are a good basis for cooperation projects – that are also funded by a fair number of initiatives in the Technology Park:
What do researchers work on? What innovations do companies need? Answers to these simple, yet essential questions can be found at “Economy Meets Science”, an annual event organised by Humboldt University of Berlin…
Grapevine and grey power
Tenants in Coworking Space IM.PULS benefit from each other:
“Sitting close together promotes contact,” claims Tobias Kirschnick, Head of the Innovation and Setup Centre and responsible for the coworking space IM.PULS inaugurated in November in Adlershof. This meets with José…
The bridge builders
IRIS is intended to force ahead the innovativeness and international visibility of research in Germany:
Whenever Jürgen Rabe starts expounding on the number of disciplines converging on this institute, it puts the listener in dizziness. IRIS is intended to force ahead the innovativeness and international visibility of…
State of the art and trends of UV light-emitting diodes – ICULTA-2018
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and UVphotonics NT at international conference in Berlin:
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut presents its UV LED developments in talks and at the accompanying exhibition at ICULTA-2018 – from chips to ready-to-use modules. The institute co-organizes the international conference hosted…
A² Accelerator – The best of two worlds
Startups have new ideas, established firms experience. A2 Adlershof Accelerator brings them together. This programme offers them a unique platform for the joint development of pilot projects. This year, A² will be…
Stronger together
In Berlin Adlershof, the paths between research and industry are often very short:
InSystems Automation GmbH is growing in line with the demand for autonavigating transport robots, and today over sixty experts are working for this specialised machine builder. In December 2017, the company relocated…
X-ray snapshots of reacting acids and bases
Erik T. J. Nibbering receives an ERC Advanced Grant for groundbreaking basic research:
Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin receives an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Goal with this prestigious…
Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures
The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,072 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2017) on an area of…
Important progress in solar-to-hydrogen conversion
Nanostructuring increases efficiency of metal-free photocatalysts by factor eleven:
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the production of hydrogen from solar energy. However, the efficiency of these metal-free catalysts is extremely low. A team at the…
A spinning top of light
MBI researchers develop a new method for the characterization of extremely short light pulses:
Short, rotating pulses of light reveal a great deal about the inner structure of materials. An international team of physicists led by Prof. Misha Ivanov of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse…
Adlershof Journal March/April 2018
Women in Tech: The Technology Park‘s Feminine Side:
How CyberMentoring and researcher tandems work // Ladies first: Successful female high-tech entrepreneurs in senior management positions // It doesn’t get any cooler: An off-grid refrigerator // …
Work for All: Why full-time working mums work full-time differently than full-time working dads
Essay by Dilek Güngör, writer and a journalist from Berlin:
We call working mums, working mums – but are there any mums that don’t work? Procreation is hard work, so is pregnancy, not to mention giving birth. The moment they cross that off the list in the delivery room, it…
Committed Advocate of Equal Opportunities
In conversation with Mara Oßwald, physicist and co-organizer of the conference „I, Scientist“:
A passionate physicist, black belt martial artist and trainer, committed advocate of equal opportunities and a mother-to-be – Mara Oßwald is clearly full of girl power. It seems her day has more than 24 hours. The…
Do women network differently?
On role models and the guide to self-marketing:
There it is again that much maligned cliché! Even here in Adlershof. There are not enough women in STEM university courses, even less female professors in university departments and hardly any women among the…
Ladies first!
Successful female high-tech entrepreneurs in senior management positions:
Women in senior management positions in business and science continue to be in short supply. The same applies to Adlershof. But there are some notable exceptions, which we want to present in the following as examples…