Archive - News - Technology Park Berlin Adlershof

13.04.2015

Micro technology, maxi success

Innovative companies are transforming Adlershof into a hot spot for microoptics and microsystems engineering:

Developed by PT Photonic Tools, the technology is unique in this form and defies any cursory explanation. Björn Wedel nevertheless manages to give an understandable comparison: “Basically, it’s a power cable with…

Xiaozhuo Wang, founder of Brilliance Fab Berlin

13.04.2015

Laser technology for the world market

Adlershof Ferdinand-Braun-Institut has pooled its resources with the Chinese company Sino Nitride Semiconductor:

The potential is enormous: With a view to developing products based on German laser technology, the Adlershof Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) has pooled its resources with…

Left: Its short pulse lasers have launched Ellex to the world leadership in the treatment of glaucoma and (successive) cataracts. Right: The intelligent jacket ”CareJack“

13.04.2015

Hightech for eyes and back

Medical engineering “Made in Adlershof”:

Where the eyes are concerned, the greatest caution is needed, for instance in the treatment of glaucoma that gradually restricts the field of vision. About one in ten sufferers lose their eyesight. By developing…

13.04.2015

Gentle means safe

Nondestructive materials testing helps to prevent accidents and disasters:

It lies there like a gun barrel, behind a thick door in the basement: an orange coloured X ray tube. The crucial difference: the X rays are not meant to wreak destruction. They pass through material and detect…

Light painting workshop at the convention ”Girls and technology“

13.04.2015

In a New Light

Catwalk, Academy and Girls Congress:

Well befitting the International Year of Light, the solar eclipse on 20 March 2015 was a reminder that without sunlight there would be no life on our planet. After millennia of passive solar harvesting, modern science…

13.04.2015

Milk under the spectral magnifying glass

The company JTL-BioTec.Analytics of Adlershof develops and markets instrumentation for the analysis of food and medicines:

It is proud of its low cost high tech that also smaller firms can afford. Production will soon be starting in India as well. On his travels to India, Frank Wagner has only bad memories of the long flight, the…

Christoph Rameshan, Alexander Opitz and Andreas Nenning (l. to r.) from the Vienna University of Technology

13.04.2015

Hydrogen surprise at BESSY

Electrolysis is regarded as the key technology for the energy transition:

Wind and solar power can then be stored when electrolysis uses this to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. Research teams all over the world are seeking ways to raise the efficiency of electrolysis. One…

08.04.2015

Adlershof growing on its own steam

1001 tech oriented companies / Urban development is making progress:

The high-technology site Berlin Adlershof has grown substantially in 2014. At the end of last year, 15,931 people were working here, 4.2 % more than the previous year. Adding to this were 6,235 students at the…

Illustration: SciStyle Thomas Splettstößer

02.04.2015

Femto-snapshots of reaction kinetics

International team decodes bonding behaviour of iron pentacarbonyl / Application as a catalyst for storing solar energy:

Following six years’ work, an international team comprising eleven research institutions has been successful in observing precisely how light affects the outer electrons of a metallic compound and activates this…

Photonics and Optics in the Berlin Adlershof Technology Park

01.04.2015

What is Adlershof doing in Japan?

Technology Park at “Photonix Japan 2015” from April 8-10, 2015:

The Technology Park Adlershof is one of the most dynamic locations for photonics, optics, and microsystems technology in Germany. Adlershof-based companies and research institutes are leading in high-performance laser…

30.03.2015

Technology Park Berlin Adlershof at Hannover Messe

13. to 17. April 2015; Hall 3, Stand E06:

Microsystems technology offers possible solutions to global megatrends such as scarcity of resources, sustainability, mobility, and urbanisation. The Technology Park Adlershof – the prime location for successful…

Business Education BEITRAINING People Skills Day 2015, Rolf Hempel

30.03.2015

Increase your Success via our Training Sessions

Business Education now located in Berlin - Adlershof.:

Business Education is a marketing and business training company catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs. They offer a large selection of online and offline training products, services, live training…

19.03.2015

SCIENION US, Inc. receives ISO 13485 certification

Internationally recognized standard for quality management systems (QMS) / Certification is accredited by TÜV SÜD America Inc.:

ISO 13485:2003 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer requirements…

Centre for IT and Media (ZIM3) Berlin Adlershof

12.03.2015

Adlershof at CeBIT

We pave the way for future products and technology:

The integration of IT as a crossover technology into manufacturing is the foundation for future economic success. The Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof will showcase its solutions at CeBIT 2015 in Hall …

11.03.2015

Laser made in Adlershof

Lumics adds new 760nm wavelength and reduces linewidth of its single-mode diode laser modules:

Lumics GmbH - Berlin has further increased its wavelength portfolio of single-mode fiber pigtailed butterfly 14-pin modules with internal temperature control and monitor photodiode. Now Lumics’ added also 760nm to…

Schematic illustration of the field-effect transistor

06.03.2015

Optically switchable organic field effect transistors created

Such molecular devices are considered as key elements in future logic circuits:

An international team of researchers led by Stefan Hecht (Member of IRIS Adlershof) and Paolo Samori from the Université de Strasbourg (France), in collaboration with scientists from Stanford University (USA) and…

02.03.2015

Why does DNA prove to be photostable?

MBI scientists get new insights into the photophysics of the DNA base thymine:

DNA stores our genetic code. Solar UV radiation has sufficiently high energy to basically break bonds of the DNA and thus cause DNA damage. Although DNA (e. g. in our skin cells) is exposed to intense UV light …

Silicon substrate with etched funnels. Credit: S. Schmitt/MPL

27.02.2015

Learning by eye

Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells:

A biological structure in mammalian eyes has inspired a team headed by Silke Christiansen to design an inorganic counterpart for use in solar cells. With the help of conventional semiconductor processes, they etched…

Dichromium and Dichromium-Cation. Graphics: HZB

26.02.2015

Stretch and relax!

Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium:

An international team of scientists from Berlin, Freiburg and Fukuoka has provided the first direct experimental insight into the secret quantum life of dichromium. Whereas in its normal state the 12 valence…