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Tibidabo Scientific Industries Announces the Acquisition of LLA Instruments
The Adlershof-based LLA Instruments specialises in products that support various applications in the detection and identification of materials:
Tibidabo Scientific Industries Ltd (“Tibidabo”), a global leader in highly differentiated technology for scientific research, aerospace, and industrial markets, announced the successful acquisition of LLA Instruments…
New beamline for VUV radiometry
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt increases availability for different measurement tasks at the Metrology Light Source:
A new beamline for radiometry in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral range (VUVR) was successfully commissioned at the Metrology Light Source (MLS). By quickly redirecting the radiation to three different measuring…
Happy Birthday BESSY II
A conversation about 25 years of the high-brilliance radiation source in Adlershof:
BESSY II is a synchrotron, a storage ring, a high-brilliance radiation source. Or as Bernd Rech puts it: a high-tech X-ray microscope. For 25 years, it has been helping researchers from all over the world to uncover…
Stäubli Award goes to novel robotics system 'Microbot'
Robo-Technology GmbH and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut developed the system for micro-assembly of photonic modules to be used in space and quantum technologies:
At its Partner Summit, Stäubli Robotics honored Robo-Technology GmbH with its Partner Award in recognition of the innovation demonstrated with the intuitively operated "Microbot" system. The robotic system was jointly…
Crystal growth community met in Adlershof
IKZ hosted the 12th German-French Workshop on Oxide, Dielectric and Laser single crystals (WODIL 2023):
Around 40 researchers from Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy and Latvia gathered at the WODIL 2023 to discuss research involving oxide, chalcogenide and halide single crystals. These are used as…
Manipulating collective motions of electrons and solvent molecules in a polar liquid
MBI team has investigated dynamic electrical properties in polar liquids using ultrafast two-dimensional spectroscopy in the THz frequency range:
An electron and the surrounding cloud of solvent dipoles couple through electric forces and can undergo joint collective motions. Such many-body excitations in the terahertz (THz) frequency range are called polarons…
FBH presents developments for quantum technologies at EQTC 2023
The European Quantum Technology Conference takes place in Hannover from October 16 to 20, 2023:
Quantum technologies promise nothing less than a technological revolution in areas such as sensor technology, communication, and computing. This tremendous potential for innovation is also reflected by the European…
Berlin is becoming a hotspot for quantum technology
Kick-off for the Berlin Quantum Alliance and presentation of the new “Leap” innovation hub:
Kick-off for the Berlin Quantum Alliance (BQA): This joint initiative by Berlin's business community, research institutions and universities is intended to make Berlin an international hotspot for the research and…
Stefan Hecht is one of the best professors for start-ups
The scientist was honored by Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger for Entrepreneurial Commitment:
The member of IRIS Adlershof, Professor Stefan Hecht, Founding Director of the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, was honored on September 6, along with 19 other…
The nanophotonicist
Sofia Pazzagli experiments with tiny amounts of light:
The wind sends small waves rippling over the pond: “This is how,” says Sofia Pazzagli, “we typically perceive of the motion of light.” Reality, however, is more complex: “When we look at light on a very small scale,…
New insights into the light scattering of atoms
Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin have demonstrated a surprising effect present in the fluorescent light of a single atom:
Researchers headed by Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin have gained new insights into the scattering of light by a fluorescent atom, which could…
BESSY II back in operation after cyber attack on Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB, national metrology center) can use its experimental stations again:
Since Monday 3 July 2023 BESSY II light source produces brilliant light for research again. It was shut down as a precaution after a hacker attack on the IT systems at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) mid-June. The…
Jenoptik opens new medical technology site in Berlin
Completion of the production facilities on “Groß-Berliner Damm” for more than 100 employees:
Together with the employees of the Berlin sites in Germany and guests, the photonics group Jenoptik today officially celebrated the completion of its new site on “Gross-Berliner Damm” in Berlin. In the new production…
BESSY User Meeting in Adlershof
Despite a cyber attack on the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, the meeting will take place as scheduled:
On 15.06.2023, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) became the target of a cyber attack. All IT systems were shut down for protection. The research centre cannot be reached via the website, email or telephone at the…
A new dynamic probe of electric forces between molecules
Scientists from MBI and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich investigated the optical absorption of dye molecules:
Molecules in water and other polar media are subject to strong electric forces. Such forces originate from their liquid environment, which at ambient temperature undergoes ultrafast structural fluctuations. A new…
FBH shows its entire range of services at Laser World of Photonics
High-power laser system for Additive Manufacturing and further new developments for space, communications, medical technology, materials processing and quantum technology:
Once again, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) will present its complete range of services at Laser World of Photonics in Munich from June 27 - 30, 2023 – from design to…
Bruker Introduces Next-Generation Automated BioAFM for Quantification of Molecular Forces
ForceRobot 400 Enables High-Throughput Force Measurements for Single-Molecule Research:
Bruker has announced the release of the ForceRobot® 400 BioAFM, which marks a new milestone in force measurement capabilities. It sets new standards in automation, generating over 250,000 force curves per day to…
Symmetry breaking by ultrashort light pulses opens new quantum pathways for coherent phonons
Researchers from MBI and University of Duisburg-Essen demonstrated a novel concept for exciting and probing coherent phonons in crystals:
Atoms in a crystal form a regular lattice, in which they can move over small distances from their equilibrium positions. Such phonon excitations are represented by quantum states. A superposition of phonon states…
Researchers at HU and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut make an important step towards the quantum internet
A cornerstone for 1000-fold improved communication rates to bridge long distances:
Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single light particles that are referred to as single…
How much cadmium is contained in cocoa beans?
Team at BESSY II investigated heavy metal contamination of cocoa beans by combining different X-ray fluorescence techniques:
Cocoa beans can absorb toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from the soil. Some cultivation areas, especially in South America, are polluted with these heavy metals, in some cases considerably. In combining different…