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Optics & Photonics News reports on Science City Adlershof
Article in december issue 2019 of The Optical Society's monthly news magazine :
Read Molly Moser's report in English...
CHEOPS space telescope to investigate extrasolar planets
DLR is involved in the scientific evaluation of the data and contributed two modules:
On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French…
Felix Willems received Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award 2019 for his PhD thesis on ultrafast magnetization dynamics
He had analysed ultrafast switching processes using spectroscopic methods at synchrotron sources like BESSY II:
In his research, Willems combined static experiments with synchrotron radiation at BESSY II with femtosecond time-resolved experiments on a laser-based high harmonic generation source at MBI. Via measurements of both…
Cancer research at BESSY II
Binding Mechanisms of Therapeutic Substances Deciphered:
In tumor cells, the DNA is altered in comparison to normal body cells. How such changes can be prevented or inhibited is an exciting field of research with great relevance for the development of cancer treatments. An…
The aim to provide brain tumor patients with the best care possible
MagForce hosts practice-oriented application training for the use of the NanoTherm therapy system in treating brain tumors and intends to increase the availability of the therapy:
With “Module B – Advanced Course 1: - stereotactic Instillation” MagForce AG conducted the second round of its ‘NanoTherm School’ in November. The application training series was launched in January 2019 to provide…
Paul Rappaport Award presented to FBH authors
The Electron Device Society honored the best work published in last year's IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices:
For the publication “Local 2DEG Density Control in Heterostructures of Piezoelectric Materials and Its Application in GaN HEMT Fabrication Technology” the authors Konstantin Osipov, Joachim Würfl, Ina Ostermay, Frank…
Innovative Training Network iSwitch receives “Étoiles de l'Europe 2019”
IRIS Adlershof members Prof. Norbert Koch and Prof. Stefan Hecht support the project:
The Innovative Training Network iSwitch is awarded the "Étoiles de l'Europe" prize of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for its outstanding and European-oriented research. With this, the…
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient – high-performance devices for the digital transformation
Joint project “power transistors based on AlN (ForMikro-LeitBAN)” launched:
Highly efficient power semiconductors are to pave the way for a wide range of novel applications – from e-mobility to artificial intelligence. This is the objective of the recently launched joint project "power…
Few-cycle pulses break the 300 W barrier
Significant milestone in few-cycle laser technology paving the way towards industrial applications:
A team led by researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Laser-Laboratorium Göttingen (LLG) and Active Fiber Systems (AFS) has generated multi-millijoule 3-cycle…
DFG funds new Research Training Group „Rethinking Quantum Field Theory“
The group based in the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin will be funded with about 4 Mio Euro:
The Research Training Group (RTG) “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory” is based in the Physics Department and the IRIS Adlershof of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). From April 2020, it will be funded by the German…
Berlin Science Award: Young Talent Award for Steve Albrecht
Governing Mayor honours HZB scientist for outstanding research achievements in the field of novel tandem solar cells:
On November 7, 2019, Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research, honoured outstanding research achievements for the twelfth time. Prof. Dr. Steve Albrecht was honoured this year…
Adlershof know-how in the fight against malaria
X-ray microscopy at BESSY II reveals how antimalaria-drugs might work:
Malaria is one of the most threatening infectious diseases in the world. An international team has now been able to investigate malaria pathogens in red blood cells in vivo using the BESSY II X-ray microscope and the…
Joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” launched
Semiconductor material beta-gallium oxide offers the best prerequisites for next-generation power electronics:
The recently launched joint project “ForMikro-GoNext” of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), the Ferdinand Braun Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH), the University of Bremen and…
New instrument at BESSY II commences user operation
The powerful measurement station for photoelectron spectroscopy and microscopy has been developed in the Russian-German Laboratory:
A new instrument became available to the users of BESSY II on Oct. 28, 2019. The new beamline and apparatus for spin- and angular-resolved photoemission in the Russian-German Laboratory at BESSY II have successfully…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2019
Working together, winning together: our strategy for success:
High-strength printing: High-purity silicon carbide with 3D printers // Science as a location factor: Interview with Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller // Secret places: Time travelling through hidden places in…
Prepared for the champions league: Adlershof is ready to contribute to the Grand Challenges
Essay by Roland Sillmann, head of WISTA Management GmbH and WISTA.Plan GmbH:
Adlershof achieved the mission it once set for itself. The site’s numbers are excellent. In 2018, the growth rate of Adlershof-based companies was at twelve percent, twice as high as that of the Chinese economy. The…
Co-responsible for the ifp’s steep growth trajectory
In conversation with food chemist Carolin Poweleit:
She’s a food chemist with an appetite for travelling and visiting other countries. Her way of working is highly structured but never goes without using her imagination. She’s is an identical twin but is completely…
Mission 2030
How do we keep the Technology Park Adlershof on a road to success?:
Things are going smoothly in Adlershof. To make sure this continues, WISTA Management GmbH is thinking about ways to keep the site on a road to success – and to make it even better. It is seldom good to rest on one’s…
Science as a location factor
Michael Müller, Berlin’s governing mayor and senator for higher education and research, talked to us about recruiting new talent, how Berlin’s ‘Zukunftsorte’ bridge gaps, and how Adlershof is expanding its universities for future PE teachers:
Adlershof Journal: Mr. Governing Mayor, please gaze into your crystal ball: what will the Berlin as hub for science and research look like in 2030? It will certainly be more modern, more international, and more…
The activist
Andrea Lübcke researches molecules and campaigns against climate change:
She strongly disagrees that the issues she deals with on a day-to-day basis are exceptionally hard to grasp. Take a femtosecond, for example. What’s hard to grasp about that? It’s not hard if you try to imagine that a…