ANH Berlin is taking care of the highly sought-after new generation of non-academic staff:
The skilled labour shortage is currently a huge issue in Germany. The microelectronics sector develops and produces semiconductor chips for a wide range of applications – from computers to airbag sensors – and is…
The Einstein Foundation Berlin supports the HU scientist's research in the field of quantum optics:
The experimental physicist and head of the Emmy Noether junior research group "Nonlinear Quantum Optics", Dr. Sven Ramelow, is doing research in the project "Sensors with entangled photons in the middle infrared" at…
MBI researchers investigate the peculiar properties of water:
Researchers at the Max Born Institute are investigating the peculiar properties of water: They are researching fundamental physical and biophysical processes on ultrafast time scales. There is no life without water.…
New measurement technique from INNOVENT e.V. and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut opens up a variety of possibilities in product labeling:
Researchers from INNOVENT e.V. and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH have developed a measurement technique that allows to detect nanoscale fluorescent thin films for the first time without using expensive laboratory…
With XFlash® 7, users benefit from further increased analytical performance, higher productivity and lower cost of ownership:
Bruker Corporation introduces the new XFlash 7 detector series for its QUANTAXTM energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) systems, enabling chemical analysis of material samples in electron microscopes with ultimate…
HZB team uses self-learning graphical neural networks to correctly interpret experimentally obtained measurement data:
With conventional methods, it is extremely time-consuming to calculate the spectral fingerprint of larger molecules. But this is a prerequisite for correctly interpreting experimentally obtained data. Now, a team at…
At MBI, a pump-probe experiment was demonstrated to study non-linear multi-photon ionization processes on attosecond timescales:
An international team of researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, University College London and ELI-ALPS in Szeged, Hungary, has demonstrated attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy to study non-linear…
A team of researchers from MBI and DESY observed a new kind of wave mixing process involving soft x-rays:
Unlike fictional laser swords, real laser beams do not interact with each other when they cross – unless the beams meet within a suitable material allowing for nonlinear light-matter interaction. In such a case, wave…
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut will showcase its developments at the ILA from 22 to 24 June 2022 in Berlin:
From June 22 to 24, 2022, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) will present reliable semiconductors for applications in the fields of space, satellites and quantum technology…
New supply technology ensures long-term operation of the electron storage ring in Adlershof:
The X-ray source BESSY II is in a three-month period of shutdown. During this period, the low voltage main distribution panel in the supply building outside the electron storage ring is being renovated. This will…
New THz EPR spectroscopy method allows insights into previously inaccessible spin-spin interactions and the function of novel catalytic and magnetic materials:
A team at the EPR4Energy joint lab of HZB and MPI CEC has developed a new THz EPR spectroscopy method to study the catalytic activation of molecular oxygen by copper complexes. The method allows insights into…
New institut develops techniques and infrastructures to investigate the dynamics of elementary microscopic processes in novel material systems:
The HZB Institute for Electronic Structure Dynamics, newly founded on 1 May, develops experimental techniques and infrastructures to investigate the dynamics of elementary microscopic processes in novel material…
Olga Smirnova receives an ERC Advanced Grant:
Olga Smirnova receives a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) which supports, for a period of 5 years, basic research on developing new methods for controlling and imaging ultrafast…
The nano-repeater has succeeded in amplifying light in a glass fiber in just one direction:
Today, optical fibers are the backbone of our information society. However, in order to transmit data over long distances using light in fiber optic networks, the light must be amplified regularly to compensate for…
Scientists from MBI and FU Berlin successfully reduced the required time between switching events of magnetic bits to a record value of seven picoseconds:
Magnetic bits for data storage can be written with ultrafast laser pulses, in contrast to the well-established path of using magnetic fields administered via a write head. Researchers at Max Born Institute and Freie…
Researchers at MBI have elucidated in space and time concerted electron and nuclear motions in crystalline solids:
Phonons are quantum excitations which correspond to vibrations of the regular atomic array of a crystal. This crystal lattice consists of a large number of unit cells with an identical atomic arrangement. In the…
Using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, the electronic charge distributions of photoacids could be studied at BESSY II:
Photoacids are molecules that release a proton upon electronic excitation, thus enhancing the acidity of a liquid. Pioneering work by Theodor Förster has shown the direct relationship between the wavelength position…
High power laser system developed at MBI enables the generation of attosecond pulses with 100 kHz repetition rate:
Attosecond laser pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) are a unique tool enabling the observation and control of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids. Most attosecond laser sources operate at a pulse…
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II provides detailed information on properties and biological function:
A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unravelling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be deduced, but the…
Large scale research facility in Adlershof registered 1400 user visits from 34 countries:
2021 was not an easy year for international research: owing to lockdowns and travel bans, science was hit hard by the pandemic situation. Nevertheless, experiments continued at a high level at the BESSY II light…