The HZB is making all existing infrastructures available to the joint project:
The Berlin biotech company Molox GmbH and a team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have initiated a consortium of regional research groups and BASF. Together, they want to identify a starting point for the…
Chemist Michael J. Bojdys' proposal for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the project “LiAnMAT” has been retained for funding:
On April 27, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the recipients of the Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant scheme: one of them is Michael J. Bojdys, materials chemist and junior research group leader at IRIS…
Fast switching can make processes in magnetic materials visible and allows completely new experiments at the electron storage ring:
At the BESSY II storage ring, a joint team of accelerator physicists, undulator experts and experimenters has shown how the helicity of circularly polarized synchrotron radiation can be switched faster – up to a…
Scientists have decoded the three-dimensional architecture of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2:
A coronavirus is keeping the world in suspense. SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious and can cause severe pneumonia with respiratory distress (COVID-19). Scientists are doing research in order to prevent the viruses from…
H3 promotes its commitment to the use of new materials and to the environment:
ORELTECH is a Berlin startup and trailblazer in the field of advanced metallization techniques. The young company is disrupting the existing market for functional (printed) electronics through a novel, highly…
2D titanium carbides store large amounts of electrical energy and can be charged and discharged in a matter of seconds:
Two dimensional titanium carbides, so-called MXenes, are being discussed as candidates for the rapid storage of electrical energy. Like a battery, MXenes can store large amounts of electrical energy through…
Bernd Rech (HZB) and Ulrich Panne (BAM) about new ways towards a resource-saving energy supply and new materials:
We are entering a new decade – faced by climate change, a growing global population, and a maltreated environment, many look into the future with some trepidation. However, with researchers working on solutions,…
Adlershof start-up ORELTECH GmbH develops conductive inks and fluids:
ORELTECH GmbH, a young start-up, develops conductive inks and fluids, which can built into inkjet printers. The start-up has developed a procedure that also allows much finer metallisation techniques, for example,…
MX Beamline at BESSY II works about 2 to 3 times faster than before:
In February a new detector was installed at one of the three MX beamlines at HZB. Compared to the old detector the new one is better, faster and more sensitive. It allows to acquire complete data sets of complex…
Plants absorb lead from perovskite solar cells more than expected:
Lead from metal-organic perovskite compounds can be absorbed particularly easily by plants. The bioavailability is significantly higher than that of lead from inorganic compounds as found in batteries. This is shown…
Interdiciplinary Cooperation and Talent-Recruiting:
With more than 60 participants, the event exceeded all expectations. The start-ups OrelTech, INURU, Nano-Join, Tiwari, Solaga and PSC presented the current status of their research and products from the Adlershof…
Sales experts from all over the world meet at the headquarters in Adlershof:
From January 27th to 29th the International Sales Meeting will take place at the headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof for the 21st time in a row. The sales experts of the LUM companies from Asia, Europe and…
FBH presents new developments at Photonics West 2020 (San Francisco):
FBH exhibits novel diode lasers and modules at Photonics West 2020. Applications include materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, and (Raman) spectroscopy. Progress in UV LEDs is presented jointly with the spin-off…
Start-up Nano-Join develops custom-made silver sintered pastes to improve efficiency of lasers and high-performance electronics:
Improving efficiency of lasers, high-performance electronics, and other (opto-)electronic systems often has to do without taking up additional space in a device. However, the higher the performance density, the more…
He had analysed ultrafast switching processes using spectroscopic methods at synchrotron sources like BESSY II:
In his research, Willems combined static experiments with synchrotron radiation at BESSY II with femtosecond time-resolved experiments on a laser-based high harmonic generation source at MBI. Via measurements of both…
Joint project “power transistors based on AlN (ForMikro-LeitBAN)” launched:
Highly efficient power semiconductors are to pave the way for a wide range of novel applications – from e-mobility to artificial intelligence. This is the objective of the recently launched joint project "power…
Governing Mayor honours HZB scientist for outstanding research achievements in the field of novel tandem solar cells:
On November 7, 2019, Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research, honoured outstanding research achievements for the twelfth time. Prof. Dr. Steve Albrecht was honoured this year…
Semiconductor material beta-gallium oxide offers the best prerequisites for next-generation power electronics:
The recently launched joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), the Ferdinand Braun Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH), the University of Bremen and…
The powerful measurement station for photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy has been developed in the Russian-German Laboratory:
A new instrument became available to the users of BESSY II on Oct. 28, 2019. The new beamline and apparatus for spin- and angular-resolved photoemission in the Russian-German Laboratory at BESSY II have successfully…
Two Adlershof-based researchers are being granted 1.5 million each by the European Research Council:
What Tim Schröder and his team are doing is essentially staging a relay race between light particles, which, upon reaching the finish line, transmit a message composed of different quantum states. These messages are…