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A Wiki for Perovskite Solar Cell Research
An international team of experts has designed an open source database to systematically record findings on perovskite semiconductors:
An international team of experts has collected data on metal halide perovskite solar cells from more than 15,000 publications and developed a database with visualisation options and analysis tools. The database is…
Printing an electronic rainbow
Combination of colour printing and chemical tunability enables printed spectrometer:
Researchers from Innovation Lab HySPRINT at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and IRIS Adlershof of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) have used an advanced inkjet printing technique to produce a large range of…
Improved analytics in the food and beverage industry
LUM GmbH enters into a sales partnership with the French company LABORATOIRES HUMEAU:
In November 2021, LUM GmbH started a sales partnership with the French company LABORATOIRES HUMEAU in order to be able to offer customers in the food and beverage industry and the corresponding research institutions…
Learn from nature, use resources more effectively and avoid harmful effects
5 trendsetters nominated for the LUM Science Award YSA 2022:
From January 24th to 25th, 2022, LUM GmbH will host the 10th International Conference for Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing. Prof. Dr. Dr. Lerche, chairman of the scientific committee and LUM managing…
HPS expands its product range by introducing storage systems for businesses and multi-family houses
Year-round multi-picea electricity storage system can store up to 15,000 kilowatt hours of solar electricity:
HPS Home Power Solutions GmbH (HPS), provider of picea, the green hydrogen-based, year-round electricity storage system for buildings, today announced that it has expanded its product portfolio. The newly developed…
Kookrin Char wins Humboldt Research Award hosted by IKZ
The scientist is one of the leading pioneers in the field of oxide electronics:
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation honours the collaboration of Kookrin Char with IKZ and the Leibniz ScienceCampus GraFOx in the field of oxide semiconductors by a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. The…
Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize and Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation
Friends of HZB awarded outstanding researchers at this year‘s HZB User Meeting, which was attended by around 450 visitors:
This year, the Friends of HZB awarded the Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize to the outstanding doctoral thesis of Dr Fredrik Johansson (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, CNRS, Sorbonne). The European Innovation Award on…
Ultra-light and super-fast extrasolar planet discovered
An international team of scientists led by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research is characterising the newly discovered extrasolar planet GJ 367 b:
As far as extrasolar planets go, 'GJ 367 b' is a featherweight. With half the mass of Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest among the nearly 5000 exoplanets known today. It takes the extrasolar…
Green information technologies: Superconductivity meets Spintronics
An international team has designed a material system suitable for low-power consumption superconducting spintronic-applications:
Superconducting coupling between two regions separated by a one micron wide ferromagnetic compound has been proved by an international team. This macroscopic quantum effect, known as Josephson effect, generates an…
New funding programme to support start-ups in the field of materials sciences
IRIS Adlershof and INAM will receive EUR 1.1 million to set up the incubator “AdMaLab — The Berlin Materials and Hardware Lab”:
The State of Berlin is providing the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM e.V.) and its cooperation partners, such as IRIS Adlershof of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, around 1.1 million EUR to set up an…
Forschungsverbund Berlin with new Managing Director
Dr. Nicole Münnich takes on the role of Managing Director on December 1, 2021:
Dr. Nicole Münnich takes on the role of Managing Director of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) on December 1, 2021. She succeeds Dr. Falk Fabich, who was Acting Managing Director from April 2021 following the…
Walter-Schottky-Award for Felix Büttner
Award for his outstanding work in solid state research:
The Walter Schottky Prize honours outstanding work by young physicists in solid-state research. For 2022, the award goes to HZB physicist Dr Felix Büttner for his groundbreaking achievements in the field of magnetic…
Another world record for HZB perovskite silicon tandem solar cells
Almost 30 % efficiency for next-generation tandem solar cells:
Three HZB teams led by Prof. Christiane Becker, Prof. Bernd Stannowski and Prof. Steve Albrecht have jointly managed to increase the efficiency of perovskite silicon tandem solar cells fabricated completely at HZB to…
“Green” chemistry: BESSY II sheds light on mechanochemical synthesis
Researchers develop method to observe chemical processes in situ with X-ray scattering during mechanical treatment of reagents:
In mechanochemistry, reagents are finely ground and mixed so that they combine to form the desired product, even without need for solvent. By eliminating solvent, this technology promises to contribute significantly…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2021
We are family: How family ties hold our campus together:
Under one roof: New IRIS research building // It's “human”: Family business immexa // Happy end: Home for Theater Ost
Stifterverband certifies Helmholtz Centre Berlin for strategies in dealing with diversity
HZB is the first non-university research institution to complete the Diversity Audit “Vielfalt gestalten”:
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is the first non-university research institution to have undergone the Stifterverband's diversity audit "Vielfalt gestalten". The certification attests to the HZB's…
Three plus one makes four, diddle diddle dee, and makes a family: When are we complete?
Essay by Elina Penner, a freelance writer, and head of the Berlin-based parenting platform “Hauptstadtmutti”:
Your skin gets just a little bit thicker after giving birth to your second child. There’s a certain security in knowing that you managed it before. Lanolin, swaddling, and the tiger in the tree don’t sound completely…
The oldest of all communities
Mareike and Rolf Lechner about their family business immexa:
Family businesses are among the oldest ways to organise businesses. At over 90 percent, they dominate the German economic landscape and create an enormous economic impact. The advantages of a family-owned business are…
In conversation with Manuela Peters
She has been the manager of the “Melli-Beese-Haus” nursing school for six years:
“Diverse, sustainable, and rewarding” is what Manuela Peters thinks about her work with our youngest. She has been a childcare worker since 1984 and the head of “Melli-Beese-Haus” for six years. Located right next to…
The crystal engineer
Biswajit Bhattacharya researches mechanically flexible materials in Adlershof:
Medinipur, Nagpur, Kolkata, Adlershof. Along these stages of his educational and professional path, Biswajit Bhattacharya has literally come a long way. For three years now, this workplace has been on Richard…