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A perfect match
Editorial by Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, President of TOPTICA Photonics AG:
TOPTICA can boast today over a dozen Nobel laureates in Physics, not least of all last year’s winners Serge Haroche (ENS Paris) and Dave Wineland (NIST Boulder, USA). What many do not know: It is Berlin high tech…
Things are really moving at the Photonics Centre
Interview with Kezban Saritas from the operating company WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH:
There’s a lot happening at the Photonics and Optical Technologies Centre ZPO in Adlershof. A new generation is taking over. Successful established companies are setting up their own buildings at this technology…
We need more space!
Several photonics companies are currently building a new head office and remain true to the location Adlershof:
AEMtec GmbH is not the only photonics company in Adlershof that has to deal with a building project in addition to its core business. The next few weeks will see, for example, Bruker Nano GmbH move into its new head…
Key to new production technologies
For years, optics and microsystems engineering have been on the road to success in the capital region of Berlin-Brandenburg:
Over 400 in number, the companies and research institutes employ 16,600 people and are achieving a turnover of 2.3 billion. Gerrit Rössler, Cluster Manager for Optics at the TSB Innovationsagentur Berlin GmbH, is…
Multipurpose fibres
From biogas fermentation to the identification of cancer-risks, the company art photonics manufactures fibres for a wide range of applications:
Thanks to art photonics' fibre technology, cancer specialists can so to speak see into the future and identify a number of deadly diseases before they can break out. New infrared endoscopes detect inflammation in the…
Medical Provisions
The ability to change can be a key to success. One example of this is demonstrated by opTricon GmbH. :
The company was launched in 2005 as a service provider that developed components for optical data transmission. The customers were mostly neighbours in the Adlershof Technology Park. Today, opTricon is a global player…
Excellent research
Adlershof is profiting from the university’s excellence status:
It is now official: Research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) also enjoys the reputation of being excellent – also for nanooptics, a highly complex field of physics where top researchers find great promise for…
MBI puts hydrogen atoms under the magnifying glass
Direct Observation of the Nodal Structures of Electronic States of the Hydrogen Atom:
To describe the microscopic properties of matter and its interaction with the external world, quantum mechanics uses wave functions, whose structure and time dependence is governed by the Schrödinger equation. …
Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
“Of great technical interest for future hard disk drives”:
Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the…
Snap shots of one of life's central processes
Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis:
Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this…
MagForce AG Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm® Therapy
European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates :
MagForce AG, a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, announced today that the Company has been granted a further European patent for its NanoTherm® therapy, for which the…
Adlershof Special 28: Renewable Energies
For the future of energy efficiency:
Model urban district // For the future of energy efficiency // Nucleus for innovative storage solutions // Tapping into heaven and earth // Climate climbers // Energy efficiency made in Adlershof // The architecture…
Model urban district
By Prof. Dr. Diethard Mager, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology:
One of the largest projects to date affecting the whole of society in Germany, the turnaround in energy policy is a great opportunity for innovation and growth. In addition to converting the nation’s power supply to…
HIGH TECH – LOW EX: For the future of energy eficiency
An interview with Beate Mekiffer, head of this pilot project in Adlershof, one of the largest inner city development areas in Europe:
Why does Adlershof need a new energy concept? Recent years have seen a huge boost to growth in Adlershof, and its energy needs will grow in line with the resulting expansions. Investors of today and tomorrow want to…
Nucleus for innovative storage solutions
Approaches for a self-sufficient energy supply:
From 2014, the 5,000 inhabitants of the Azorean island of Graciosa can expect far greater independence from the mainland. The Adlershof company Younicos will be converting the island’s electricity grid to provide the…
Tapping into heaven and earth
How renewable energies are utilised in the Technology Park Adlershof:
In Adlershof, solar energy is on the brink of breaking a new local record. At the latest in June, tenants will be able to move into the offices and laboratories of the new photovoltaics centre covering 8,000 square…
Climate Climbers
Building climatization by a façade greening system in Adlershof:
As a means to save high tech air conditioning energy, the physics building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) in Adlershof has put on a coat of vegetation that regulates temperature – an extraordinary…
Energy efficiency Made in Adlershof
The modern district heating network of the utility company BTB:
“Local cogeneration is our method of choice,” are the words of Frank Mattat, Managing Director of the Berlin utility company BTB, whose customers also include the science location Adlershof. BTB Blockheizkraftwerks‑,…
The architecture of dialogue
The new Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof :
A place where the identity of the linking research subject can be experienced: that was the goal of architect Gunther Henn. The outcome is an architecture of dialogue. Bernd Ludwig, Director of the Photovoltaics and…
Great opennes to new energy concepts
Adlershof as an energy efficient location:
Regenerative energies here, self-sufficient buildings there. But what is it all costing, and how much is it really saving? And will the energy supply remain stable? What can I do – in the office, the laboratory or…