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Latest photonics and optics news

27.06.2025

4-Inch Aluminum Nitride Crystals for Future Markets in Power Electronics and UV Photonics

Innovation project launched by IKZ, PVA TePla AG and Siltronic AG:

Three leading players in semiconductor research and development – the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), the PVA TePla AG, and the Siltronic AG – are combining their expertise in a pioneering project to…

Photomontage: Portrait of Marco Stucki and poster depicting a city with diamonds flying over it
17.06.2025

Marco Stucki wins Berlin University Alliance ideas competition

His quantum research project ‘Sawfish Cavity’ is now being used for a poster campaign in Berlin:

Marco Stucki has won the Berlin University Alliance's open knowledge lab competition with a novel process for manufacturing tiny diamond structures for quantum technologies. “Art meets Science” was the motto under…

People shake hands, holding the contract in their hands.
17.06.2025

MAX IV and BESSY II initiate new collaboration to advance materials science

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin signed a 5-year cooperation agreement with the Swedish national synchrotron laboratory MAX IV:

Swedish national synchrotron laboratory MAX IV and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) with BESSY II light source jointly announce the signing of a 5-year Cooperation Agreement. The new agreement establishes a framework to…

12.06.2025

From laser chips to complete systems – FBH at Laser World of Photonics

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut demonstrates its comprehensive expertise in the field of diode lasers / More than 20 presentations at the accompanying CLEO Europe conference:

Once again, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) will be presenting its comprehensive range of photonics expertise and solutions at Laser World of Photonics in Munich from…

Porträt Bodo Richter
10.06.2025

Bodo Richter Appointed as Managing Director of greateyes

greateyes GmbH is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Bodo Richter as its new Managing Director, marking an exciting new chapter in the company’s continued growth and innovation. Bodo brings over two decades…

06.06.2025

Parts for ESA's NewAthena X-ray telescope are produced in Adlershof

Agreement on the production of mirror modules in the PTB laboratory at BESSY II:

For more than 30 years, there have been cooperation agreements between PTB and the European Space Agency (ESA) on the use of synchrotron radiation for the characterisation of detectors, filters and mirrors for X-ray…

Logo: Center for Chiral Electronics
04.06.2025

New cluster of excellence with MBI participation approved

The aim of the “Center for Chiral Electronics” is to harness chiral properties in solids and molecules:

The Center for Chiral Electronics is one of the 25 new clusters of excellence approved in May 2025 as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The successful initiative was…

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…

Optical camera and laser altimeter for ESA's JUICE mission
07.05.2025

DLR pools expertise in space research

The new DLR Institute of Space Research is being formed from the internationally acclaimed Institutes of Optical Sensor Systems and Planetary Research:

Space is a key technology for the future, essential for exploring planets, Earth observation and security. Satellites and space probes equipped with highly specialised observation instruments are indispensable for all…

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…

Figures: Experimental setup and results of the switching processes
22.04.2025

Ultrafast Plasmon-Enhanced Magnetic Bit Switching at the Nanoscale

MBI researchers demonstrated a way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits:

Researchers from Max Born Institute have demonstrated a successful way to control and manipulate nanoscale magnetic bits — the building blocks of digital data — using an ultrafast laser pulse and plasmonic gold…

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.…

Illustration of the influence of a laser pulse on phonons
14.04.2025

New research unit to study the generation, transport and detection of chiral phonons

DFG funds spintronics research with 3.2 million euros / MBI involved:

Spintronics is already widely used in data storage, sensor technology and, increasingly, in communication technology. Many of our cars and cell phones already contain components based on spintronics. Spintronics means…

10.04.2025

FBH leads European diode-pumped laser efforts

EuPRAXIA selects second laser-driven accelerator site:

The EuPRAXIA consortium has selected ELI Beamlines at ELI ERIC in the Czech Republic as the site for its laser-driven second plasma-accelerator pillar. This decision marks a major milestone in the consortium’s journey…

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Events / Dates

Mon 07 Jul - Tue 08 Jul
Workshop: PV Research Digitalisation with NOMAD Oasis
Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489 Berlin
Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB)
Tue 08 Jul
17.00 - 20.00
Berlin Quantum BBQ
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin
Leap Quantum Technology Hub & Events
Mon 14 Jul
Bewerbungsschluss: Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg
Für Unternehmen aus Berlin und Brandenburg
Tue 15 Jul
14.00
Falling Walls Lab Berlin-Adlershof
Richard-Willstätter-Str. 11, 12489 Berlin
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) at Europa-Center
Wed 30 Jul
10.00
Physik zum Frühstück
Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin
Tue 09 Sep
17.00 - 20.00
Berlin Quantum BBQ
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin
Leap Quantum Technology Hub & Events
Tue 23 Sep - Fri 26 Sep
Workshop: Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy
Volmerstraße 2, 12489 Berlin
Bunsen-Saal
Tue 07 Oct
17.00 - 20.00
Berlin Quantum BBQ: Photonics Days 2025
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin
Leap Quantum Technology Hub & Events
Wed 08 Oct - Thu 09 Oct
Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg 2025
Rudower Chaussee 17, 12489 Berlin
WISTA Event Centre
Tue 11 Nov
17.00 - 20.00
Berlin Quantum BBQ
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin
Leap Quantum Technology Hub & Events
Tue 09 Dec
17.00 - 20.00
Berlin Quantum BBQ
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin
Leap Quantum Technology Hub & Events
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