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Latest news from microsystems technology and materials research

Researcher mixes solid electrolytes at the laboratory
20.05.2025

BAM develops powerful alternative to lithium-ion batteries

Innovative approach to make solid-state batteries more sustainable, cheaper, and more efficient:

Researchers at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) have developed an innovative approach to make solid-state batteries more powerful and suitable for everyday use. Their goal: batteries that…

16.05.2025

HU junior researcher Alberto Pérez-Bitrián receives Emmy Noether grant

New Research Group OrgXeMet investigates the properties and reactivity of xenon compounds:

The new Emmy Noether research group OrgXeMet, led by Dr. Alberto Pérez-Bitrián has been launched at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). The group will be funded with approximately 1.75 million euros over six…

Signing of  the MoU
09.05.2025

BAM, HZB, and HU Berlin plan joint Berlin Battery Lab

The joint research infrastructure will also be open to industry for battery research projects:

The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), and Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the Berlin…

09.05.2025

New violet laser developed at IKZ

Researchers at the Center for Laser Materials (ZLM) at the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) have developed the most efficient direct violet-emitting solid-state laser:

Lasers with short-wave visible light in the blue or violet range have many practical applications. They are used in metalworking, for example, especially with metals such as copper, which strongly reflect infrared…

Detail view detector
08.05.2025

New materials as highly sensitive X-ray detectors

Organic-inorganic hybrid materials are ideally suited and can be produced in a green way using ball milling:

New bismuth-based organic-inorganic hybrid materials show exceptional sensitivity and long-term stability as X-ray detectors, significantly more sensitive than commercial X-ray detectors. In addition, these materials…

Illustration: femtoslicing
05.05.2025

Insight into ultrafast spin processes with femtoslicing

Worldwide unique infrastructure for spintronics research at BESSY II:

An international team has succeeded at BESSY II for the first time to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarised current pulses can be characterised by measuring the ultrafast demagnetisation in a magnetic layer system…

Distributions of individual elements after 10,000 charge cycles
30.04.2025

Ageing processes of lithium button cells made visible

For the first time, scientists were able to observe how the composition of lithium-ion batteries changes during charge cycles:

Lithium button cells with electrodes made of nickel-manganese-cobalt oxides (NMC) are very powerful. Unfortunately, their capacity decreases over time. Now, for the first time, a team has used a non-destructive method…

25.04.2025

Nanoparticle shield makes luminescent molecules more durable for high-tech applications

Silica particles shield luminescent molecules from oxygen:

They are tiny but glow intensively: special light-emitting molecules used in environmental analysis, medical diagnostics, and energy research. However, their luminescence intensity can be significantly reduced by…

25.04.2025

New instrument at BESSY II for investigating energy materials

OÆSE endstation in EMIL offers insights into dynamic electrochemical processes:

A new instrument is now available at BESSY II for investigating catalyst materials, battery electrodes and other energy devices under operating conditions: the Operando Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy on EMIL…

17.04.2025

Technology development for semiconductor material gallium oxide launched

At IKZ, a new application laboratory will be set up to produce epitaxial wafers for components in power electronics:

The EFRE project G.O.A.L. “Gallium Oxide Application Laboratory for Power Electronics”, which was launched in September 2024, completes the value chain created at the IKZ in the field of gallium oxide technology…

Illustration of the material structure
17.04.2025

A cage structured material transforms into a performant catalyst for producing green hydrogen

The promising material class of clathrates was investigated at BESSY II:

Clathrates are characterised by a complex cage structure that provides space for guest ions too. Now, for the first time, a team has investigated the suitability of clathrates as catalysts for electrolytic hydrogen…

Illustration: measurements at a diamond
15.04.2025

An elegant method for the detection of single spins using photovoltage

The approach of an HZB team could lead to a much more compact design of quantum sensors:

Diamonds with certain optically active defects can be used as highly sensitive sensors or qubits for quantum computers, where the quantum information is stored in the electron spin state of these colour centres.…

03.04.2025

Breakthrough: First electron beam in SEALab advances accelerator physics

HZB team generates and accelerates an electron beam from a multi-alkali photocathode:

The SEALab team at HZB has achieved a world first by generating an electron beam from a multi-alkali (Na-K-Sb) photocathode and accelerating it to relativistic energies in a superconducting radiofrequency accelerator…

03.04.2025

Optical innovations for solar modules – which are the most promising?

Experts provide a comprehensive overview of the state of solar research:

In 2023, photovoltaic systems generated more than 5% of the world’s electrical energy and the installed capacity doubles every two to three years. Optical technologies can further increase the efficiency of solar…

27.03.2025

Catalysis research with the X-ray microscope at BESSY II

Scientists studied changes in catalysts during the synthesis of ammonia from waste nitrates:

Contrary to what we learned at school, some catalysts do change during the reaction: for example, certain electrocatalysts can change their structure and composition during the reaction when an electric field is…

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Wed 18 Jun
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Newtonstraße 14, 12489 Berlin
Walter-Nernst-Haus, Hörsaal 0’06
Wed 25 Jun
17.15
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Newtonstraße 14, 12489 Berlin
Walter-Nernst-Haus, Hörsaal 0’06
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Chemie-Kolloquium
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Walter-Nernst-Haus, Hörsaal 0’06
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Für Unternehmen aus Berlin und Brandenburg
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