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ARIA invests € 2 Million in Inuru
Active packaging manufacturer will use funds to build a production line for sustainable luminous packaging and labelling products:
Inuru announced a € 2.3 Million Series-A funding round, led by the Warsaw based venture capital fund ARIA, to accelerate the production of affordable active packaging and labeling products. Inuru will use the fund to…
MagForce AG and affiliated European clinics support World Brain Tumor Day on 8 June
At virtual events, patients receive advice on treatment approaches with NanoTherm Therapy:
MagForce AG, a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, offering the NanoTherm Therapy System for the treatment of brain tumors, announced that they will together with…
LUM quality management system again certified according to ISO 9001:2015
LUM GmbH is a leading international provider of innovative measurement technology for particle characterization in the nano and micro range, for dispersion analysis and for materials testing:
Effective May 20, 2020, LUM continues to be certified, now for the scope: Design, production and marketing of measurement- and analysis techniques for particle, dispersion and materials characterization as well as…
Unique measurement system for 5G-MIMO and space applications put into operation at FBH
State-of-the-art equipment for microelectronic research in Germany:
With the delivery of Keysight Technologies’ custom-designed wideband microwave downconverters, all key components for the novel 5G-MIMO system are now in place at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut. The system was funded within…
Fighting hospital germs with UVC light-emitting diodes
A novel LED irradiation system developed by the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut aims to kill microorganisms with ultra-short wave UV light – without side effects:
According to the Robert Koch Institute, 400,000 to 600,000 infections with hospital germs occur in Germany every year – about 10,000 to 20,000 people die from them (source: RKI). Since multidrug resistant (MDR)…
LTB has finally arrived in North America
Support for customers with branch office in Fremont California expanded:
LTB Lasertechnik Berlin is pleased to announce the foundation LTB Laser Technologies, Inc. established in Fremont, California, LTB Laser Technologies vastly improves our proximity to customers in North American…
New interaction between light and matter discovered at BESSY II
Discovery interesting for future information technologies:
A German-Chinese team led by Gisela Schütz from the MPI for Intelligent Systems has discovered a new interaction between light and matter at BESSY II. They succeeded in creating nanometer-fine magnetic vortices in a…
PicoQuant combines high timing precision with ultrashort dead time
New versions of the high-throughput multichannel event timer MultiHarp 150 with 10 ps digital resolution are now available:
PicoQuant releases three new models of the high-throughput multichannel event timer MultiHarp 150: MultiHarp 150 4P, 8P, and 16P. The units with either 4, 8, or 16 detection channels offer improved timing precision…
BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses
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…
3D nano-metrology with X-ray fluorescence and scattering techniques
PTB researchers develop new algorithm for the fast reconstruction of atom distributions in 3D nanostructured surfaces:
Over the last years, PTB has developed a new method for atom-specific reconstruction of periodically nanostructured surfaces. Recent studies have shown experimentally that it is possible to reconstruct and identify…
Crime scenes and quantum technology
Why the time is right for establishing a network of quantum technologies in the Berlin-Brandenburg region:
A visit of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute (FBH) in Berlin-Adlershof conjures up images of a crime scene: people in white hazmat suits walk along the corridors, visitors must put blue covers over their shoes. Leave no…
New detector accelerates protein crystallography
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…
Light Moves Spins Around
Researchers have disentangled how laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons between different atoms:
Few nanometer-thin films of magnetic materials are ideal test objects to study fundamental problems in magnetism. Furthermore, such thin magnetic films have important technological applications. For example, they are…
“The cell looks like it has just run a marathon”
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II reveals how nanoparticles can change cells:
Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY II. For example, certain…
NASA honors Markus Krutzik
His team developed an instrument that was successfully used to generate ultra-cold atoms on the International Space Station (ISS):
At the end of last year, the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA, received the "NASA Group Achievement Award". This award also honors the achievements of Dr. Markus Krutzik as a…
UVphotonics to showcase custom UV LEDs and modules at Photonics West
The versatile light sources are configurable to various application requirements:
UV LEDs have opened up new prospects due to benefits like increased design flexibility, energy savings and reduced overall cost. Their customizable wavelengths, low operation voltages, ability to be rapidly switched…
New Network “Campus Club Adlershof” for Material and Environmental Technology
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…
MBI researcher was awarded the "JCP Editor's Choice Award 2020
Dr. Arnaud Rouzée received the award for his publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics:
Dr. Arnaud Rouzée has been awarded the 2020 “JCP Editor’s Choice Award” that rewards the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Chemical Physics in 2019 for his work entitled “Atomic-resolution imaging of…
21st International Sales Meeting of LUM GmbH
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…
Versatile in use – FBH semiconductor light sources
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…