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Berlin Adlershof: Record growth despite skills shortage and multiple crises
Positive development despite interlocking crises/ Remarkable increase particularly in employment:
Despite various interlocking crises, the Science and Technology Park in Berlin Adlershof was able to grow significantly in 2022. Revenues and budgetary resources increased to €3.63 billion (2021: €3.21 billion),…
HZB receives funding to make innovations usable more quickly
Helmholtz Association funds innovation platforms on accelerator technologies and photovoltaics research with 4.2 million euros:
The Helmholtz Association has selected three new innovation platforms that will now be funded. HZB is involved in two of them: The Innovation Platform on Accelerator Technologies HI-ACTS is intended to open up modern…
Multi-million-Euro funding for two collaborative quantum technology projects
HU Berlin, German Aerospace Center, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, and IRIS Adlershof are involved in the projects:
Quantum technologies promise a variety of completely new applications. In addition to quantum computers, quantum sensing and quantum communication are among the areas of quantum technology in which the first, also…
Future-oriented expansion of the LUM management
Susanne Lerche-Merchant will strengthen the management of the company as Managing Director/CEO as of March 2023:
LUM GmbH was founded in 1994 by the Managing Director Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Lerche as innovative development, production and service corporation. The headquarters are located in Berlin, Germany. Subsidiaries work in…
HZB team investigates charge transport in MXenes
Superstore MXene are considered an exciting new class of materials for energy storage:
MXenes are able to store large amounts of electrical energy like batteries and to charge and discharge rather quickly like a supercapacitor. They combine both talents and thus are a very interesting class of materials…
Speeding up diagnostics! Entangled photon pairs to help fighting cancer
FBH scientists from Adlershof will develop the required diode lasers and quantum light modules:
Cancer is the second leading cause of death and the most feared disease in aging Western societies, representing the greatest challenge to modern medicine. Since cancer cannot be prevented, early and differentiated…
Eight million euros for the 3D printing revolution by xolo
Xolo’s novel technology enables the production of intricate components in mere seconds:
The DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) has successfully closed its first investment in a series A financing round. Together with the HZG Group, Onsight Ventures and the current investor SquareOne, DTCF is investing eight…
3rd International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications – ICULTA 2023 in Berlin
Meet the UV LED Community: The program is set and registration for participants is now open.:
From April 23 to 26, 2023, the UV LED community will meet for the third time at the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications in Berlin, Germany. The internationally recognized conference series…
Purest germanium might pave the way for quantum -computations and -communications
IKZ joins hands with HU and DLR to reveal new physical properties at the quantum limit and to develop a technological base for new generation single-electron devices:
Germanium (Ge) has been demonstrated as the purest material that human beings could prepare among all semiconductor materials. Ultra-high purity germanium (u-HPGe) crystalline material with a net charge carrier…
International team of scientists develops new microscopy method
New method delivers high-resolution real-time video from the microcosm:
A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany and from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the…
FBH at Photonics West 2023
The institute presents new and advanced semiconductor light sources at the fair :
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) will present its developments and advancements in diode lasers and UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in person at Photonics West 2023, San Francisco (USA). The FBH is both represented…
High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen
Bone samples from fish and mammals were analysed at BESSY II before and after X-ray irradiation:
A team of medical researchers at Charité has analyzed damage by focused high energetic X-rays in bone samples from fish and mammals at BESSY II. With a combination of microscopy techniques, the scientists could…
New head for the R&D team at TOPTICA EAGLEYARD
Dr. Björn Globisch wants to further research and development activities in the company:
With the addition of Dr. Björn Globisch, TOPTICA EAGLEYARD is completely restructuring its Research & Development Team for 2023/2024. "After ten years spent researching terahertz sensor technology, l'm now…
Dr. Eike Köhnen from HZB is honoured with the Tiburtius Prize
The award honors his outstanding dissertation and his research work on tandem solar cells with perovskites:
On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, Dr. Eike Köhnen received the Tiburtius Prize (First Place) for outstanding dissertations. Eike Köhnen has contributed to significantly increasing the efficiency of tandem solar cells made…
New Leibniz Junior Research Group at Max Born Institute
Dr Daniel Schick is in charge of investigating fundamental aspects of ultrafast magnetization dynamics on the nanoscale using laser-driven soft-X-ray sources:
Starting in January 2023, the research portfolio of the Max Born Institute will be complemented by a new Junior Research Group led by Dr. Daniel Schick. His proposal “Following Complex Spin Structures in Time and…
Intense femtosecond light pulses in the mid-infrared for spectroscopic and technical applications
Researchers from the Max Born Institute report on a new light source that delivers ultrashort infrared pulses beyond 10 µm wavelength with record parameters:
A new light source generates ultrashort infrared pulses at wavelengths around 12 µm with previously unattained peak intensity and stability. First experiments in vibrational spectroscopy on water demonstrate the high…
IKZ team develops novel fluoride crystal for laser cooling of solids
IKZ researchers identify a novel crystalline material to boost all-solid-state optical cryocoolers:
Laser cooling of solids by anti-Stokes fluorescence is a unique technology enabling noncontact compact, lightweight, and vibration free cooling systems, so-called all-solid-state optical cryocoolers. Special crystals…
FBH develops more cost-effective laser systems in ophthalmology
The miniaturized pump laser modules are flexible and can be optimally adjusted to the wavelength:
Detachment of the retina in the eye can lead to visual impairment and even blindness. Laser coagulation is a well-established method to treat holes or fissures in the retina using laser points. This technique is used…
Team of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut receives Big Laser Award
FBH scientists awarded at ISLC 2022:
Scientists from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut were honored last week with the "Big Laser Award" for the highest performance presented at the "International Semiconductor Laser Conference" (ISLC) in Japan. The award…
Semiconductors for space, satellites, and quantum technologies at “Space Tech Expo Europe”
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut exhibits space-qualified diode laser modules with narrow linewidth and optical frequency references for satellite and quantum technology applications in Bremen:
From November 15-17, 2022, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) will present its developments at the Berlin-Brandenburg joint stand in hall 6, R36. The Berlin-based research institute has many years of comprehensive…