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A Model Neighborhood for Energy Efficiency

How the Science City Adlershof will save a third in primary energy consumption:

Intelligent technologies will help the Science City Berlin Adlershof, which covers an area of 420 hectares, become energy-efficient. A project network has been aiding the process with key insights. The goal was…

Efficient and convenient

Energy-efficient living in so-called Plus-Energy-Houses and so-called “Powerhouses”:

Many single-family houses are now increasingly built as passive or plus-energy houses. Several Adlershof-based projects aim to show that multi-family residential homes can also combine high energy efficiency with a…

Going Strong after 25 Years

Loptek, a company specialised on fibre glass, has moved manufacturing to the Technology Park:

2017 was a special year for Loptek GmbH & Co. KG. The company, which specialises on fibre optical light guides, fiber optic systems and precision mechanics, moved into its brand-new headquarters in Adlershof at the…

The Welcome System

The IT company entri developes software-based systems for access control:

Visitors are greeted by the word “entri” in huge, blue letters when they enter through the glass front door. Naturally, a company named “entri” would excel at welcoming guests to its headquarters. It’s their business…

Why Scientists X-ray Solar Cells

The electron storage ring BESSY II and the transition to clean energy:

Researchers at the “EMIL” laboratory of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH explore possible components for the Energiewende – Germany’s transition to clean energy. One group exposes material…

Spaces of Knowledge Creation

Economic geographer Suntje Schmidt explores the development of creative spaces:

How do the things work that surround us? Where does innovation come from and which conditions does it need to thrive? These are some of the questions tackled by economic geographer Suntje Schmidt. She recently became…

The Pocket-Sized Laboratory

The start-up diamond inventics finds legionella at record speed:

Precise, fast, energy and water-saving and about the size of a credit card. An innovative chip system can detect pathogenic microorganisms in water samples on the ground. The test was developed by diamond inventics, a…

5G can pave the way for the digital revolution

Test field for studying the impact of 5G on the energy sector at Adlershof and in Bonn:

According to Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and distribution network operator Stromnetz Berlin, 5th generation (5G) communication networks could have a significant impact on the energy sector. The partner companies are…

Lattice of nanotraps and line narrowing in Raman gas

Decreasing the emission linewidth from a molecule is one of the key aims in precision spectroscopy. One approach is based on cooling molecules to near absolute zero. An alternative way is to localize the molecules on…

The view into the crystal

MBI scientists recorded ultrasmall atom motions with ultrashort x-ray pulses:

Periodic motions of atoms over a length of a billionth of a millionth of a meter (10-15 m) are mapped by ultrashort x-ray pulses. In a novel type of experiment, regularly arranged atoms in a crystal are set into…

Science is International

Statement of the Science Organisations in Germany to the executive order of President Trump:

The generation of scientific insights is contingent upon discourse that is forthright, unfettered and international. It hinges on the interdisciplinary personal exchange between academic disciplines, nations and…

Mars' North Pole – Chronicle of the Martian climate

A colour mosaic of Mars' north polar cap was created from 32 images acquired by the HRSC camera:

Mars' northern hemisphere is currently experiencing winter. A newly generated colour mosaic depicts the extraordinary, almost perfectly symmetrical pattern of Mars' north polar ice cap, 1100 kilometres in diameter.…

Green light for upgrading BESSY II into a variable-pulse-length storage ring (BESSY-VSR)

General Assembly of the Helmholtz Association unanimously endorses the realisation of a worldwide unique accelerator project at the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II:

The General Assembly of the Helmholtz Association unanimously supports Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin’s proposed concept for upgrading BESSY II into a variable-pulse-length storage ring (BESSY VSR). The body of chairpersons…

Solar based hydrogen generation: EU-project PECSYS aiming for technological breakthrough

Development of demonstrators measuring up to ten square meters in area planned:

The HZB is coordinating a Horizon 2020 EU project that is expected to develop an economically feasible technology for solar based hydrogen generation. Solar energy shall thereby be converted into chemical energy that…

Quantum optical sensor for the first time tested in space – with a laser system from Berlin

For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket. The MAIUS mission demonstrates that quantum optical sensors can be operated even in harsh…

The mobile phone that charges itself

PVcomB will help mass-produce the raw photovoltaic materials used in Wysips® technology / Sunpartner Technologies and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin sign license agreement:

The French company Sunpartner Technologies has been developing innovative solar solutions for nearly 10 years. One of these is Wysips,® an invisible or transparent photovoltaic film that transforms any surface into…

Finally united: Adlershof scientists combine seemingly disparate intuitive pictures of laser physics

MBI researchers show unified time and frequency picture of ultrafast atomic excitation in strong fields:

The insight that light sometimes needs to be treated as an electromagnetic wave and sometimes as a stream of energy quanta called photons is as old as quantum physics. In the case of interaction of strong laser fields…

TRUMPF Laser GmbH expands its Berlin Adlershof branch

Market leader in high-performance diode lasers acquires company specialised on pilot production / Growing interest of large companies in the research and development competencies in Berlin:

The Berlin Adlershof-based branch of TRUMPF Laser GmbH has been focusing on the pre-product development of diode lasers since October 2015. The company has now acquired the c2go inprocess solutions GmbH in Adlershof,…

7.4 million euros from the EFRE fund

HZB is setting up a new application laboratory for developing superconducting accelerator components:

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is receiving 7.4 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE). The money is being used to set up the application laboratory “SupraLab@HZB” for the advancement of…

Amplification of relativistic Electron Pulses by Direct Laser Field Acceleration

Controlled direct acceleration of electrons in very strong laser fields can offer a path towards ultra-compact accelerators. Such a direct acceleration requires rectification and decoupling of the oscillating…