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Launch of the catalysis research platform CatLab in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and two Max Planck institutes want to achieve leaps of innovation in hydrogen research:
Hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source will play a key role in our energy system for the future. Hydrogen-based chemical energy media are needed as long-term storage repositories in the energy system and are crucial…
Rubies in the spotlight
The Optical Society (OSA) chooses publication with IKZ participation as “Spotlight” of the month:
In the publication “Optical spin polarization in ruby enhances slow light by high-contrast transient spectral hole-burning” Hans Riesen, Aleksander K. Rebane, Wayne Hutchison and Steffen Ganschow describe important…
Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
Scientists reveal Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale
The material could allow data processing with significantly less energy input:
Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by…
Order in the disorder
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
New DFG research group on mixed crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate
IKZ is member of the new research group “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”:
Dr. Steffen Ganschow of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is member of the new DFG research group FOR5044 “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”. The research group will investigate…
Helmholtz-Zentrum is one of the best trainers in Berlin
The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:
The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…
University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial intelligence
New experimental methods will be developed and the analysis of data from experiments performed at BESSY II will be significantly improved:
Every year, nearly 3000 user groups from around the world visit the electron storage ring BESSY II to study an immense variety of materials using the brilliant X-ray light the ring generates. “In the research of…
HZB & IKZ Bundle Their Competencies In Crystalline Energy And Quantum Materials
On September 11, 2020, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) signed a cooperation agreement to advance joint research on energy and quantum materials. As part of the…
Dr. Raphael Jay has received the Carl-Ramsauer-Award for his excellent dissertation
The physicist studied ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in iron complexes:
Dr. Raphael Jay has received this year's Carl-Ramsauer-Prize of the German Physical Society of Berlin (DPGzB). The prize honours outstanding dissertations in physics and related fields and will be awarded during a…
Adlershof company TIWARI offers online service for 3D printing of metals and ceramics
RAPTOR technology enables cost-effective 3D printing:
TIWARI Scientific Instruments is a hardware-oriented company, currently incubated by the European Space Agency (ESA), and aiming at leveraging their strong connection to the Space industry for accelerating…
High-Quality Crystals for Advanced Research
DESY and Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung sign cooperation agreement:
Cooperation between DESY and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) will literally become closer in the future. The Berlin Leibniz-Institute will establish a branch office on the Hamburg campus. Last week,…
Production facilities for silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum
New facilities pave the way for industrial-scale production:
Perovskites are regarded as promising materials for solar cells, able to be manufactured at low cost while at the same time being extremely efficient. They are particularly suitable for tandem solar cells that combine…
Efficient conversion of the wavelength
By “upconversion” of photons, researchers at HZB and BAM achieve an up to a one-thousand-fold increase in the electric field strength of the light waves:
The region of the spectrum that can be utilised for producing electrical energy can be considerably extended by converting low-energy (longer wavelength) photons into high-energy (shorter wavelength) photons. But so…
ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit
The researcher is investigating a new class of materials for energy storage at Helmholtz-Zentrum:
Dr. Tristan Petit has received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for 1.5 million euros over the next five years. The materials researcher will use the grant to investigate a new class of…
Webinars replacing face-to-face events
BAM gets creative in the wake of the coronavirus crisis:
Need is the mother of invention. The solution is often right in front of us. When the pandemic threw planning into disarray, the team of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) got pretty…
Humboldt-University Berlin appoints Jan Lüning
HZB’s Scientific Director was appointed Professor of Electronic Properties of Materials/X-ray Analysis:
Prof. Dr. Jan Lüning, Scientific Director at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), was appointed to an S-W3 professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin in July. The professorship is entitled “Electronic Properties of…
Hope for better batteries
HZB researchers follow live the charging and discharging of silicon electrodess, which promise higher capacities:
Using silicon as a material for electrodes in lithium-ion batteries promises a significant increase in battery amp-hour capacity.The shortcoming of this material is that it is easily damaged by the stress caused by…
Robust high-performance data storage through magnetic anisotropy
Research group from HZB and the University of Potsdam investigated different iron-platinum thin films used as material for HAMR memories:
The latest generation of magnetic hard drives is made of magnetic thin films, which are invar materials. They allow extremely robust and high data storage density by local heating of ultrasmall nano-domains with a…
Start for new Center for Catalysis Research in Adlershof
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) initiates architectural competition for an innovative laboratory and office building:
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is launching a major new project with an interdisciplinary architectural competition: An innovative laboratory and office building for catalysis research, in which the scientific…