News Archive
Setting the right tone
Adlershof can look back on an impressive legacy in sound:
Sound brings life to a film, according to Michael Kaczmarek, manager of K-13 Kinomischung. For almost a hundred years now, multifaceted sound artists from Adlershof and Johannisthal have been breathing life into…
Setting the stage
There is an endless coming and going of set designers in Adlershof:
Oscar Wilde once said: ”The stage is the return of art to life.” However, the ”stage” would often fall short without specialists such as the set designers of the companies drei d medien service and Set-Time…
The Show before the Show
Behind the stage of ”The Voice of Germany”:
Light, sound, make-up, dress: all of these things are rehearsed and checked hours before the show to prevent mistakes from slipping in. In total, around 300 people work behind the stage of ”The Voice of Germany”. One…
Research and deliver
Four Adlershof media companies successfully produce TV content for the curious:
Weather phenomena, perceptual illusions, psychoacoustics: what could be more obvious for a City of Media than to look at these things more closely given that your next-door-neighbour is such a unique place of science…
A spectacular background actor
Adlershof as a backdrop:
Tatort and Polizeiruf, two very popular German crime series, are shot here on a regular basis. Carmakers such as BMW, Lexus, and Porsche advertise using the high-tech scenery that Adlershof has to offer. Not only the…
Organic layer adds light particles
HZB team investigates materials with higher efficiencies for thin-film solar cells:
Solar cells can only use photons with energies above a specific threshold to generate electricity. A German-Australian research collaboration has now combined solar cells with an organic material which can “add up”…
Pfeiffer Vacuum Welcomes 2014 Röntgen Prize Winner
Coherent superposition of quantum states in atoms / Vacuum is essential for basic scientific research :
This year, the Justus Liebig University Giessen is awarding its Röntgen Prize to Prof. Dr. Jörg Evers. The Röntgen Prize is awarded each year for outstanding work on basic research into radiation physics and radiation…
PicoQuant nominated for innovation award
For the development of the MicroTime 200 STED PicoQuant is nominated for the "Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg":
Out of 122 applications, PicoQuant is nominated for the innovation award Berlin Brandenburg 2014 (Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg) for the development of the MicroTime 200 STED. This year's ten nominees were…
Warping in topological insulators
HZB physicists investigated the direction of motion of electrons and their impact on lossless electricity and information transport:
Topological insulators are promising to develop into a material for lossless electricity and information transport. Now, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga and colleagues from HZB investigated for the first time whether the…
The longer the better
Optical long-wavelength pulses generate brilliant ultrashort hard x-ray flashes:
Researchers from the Max-Born-Institut and the Technical University of Vienna present a novel table-top source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses with an unprecedented photon flux. X-rays are a key tool for…
New electrochemical flow cell for soft x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy at BESSY II
In situ cell for investigating solid- and liquid-state samples and their interfaces under electrical voltage:
A team headed by Dr. Kathrin Aziz-Lange has developed a new in-situ cell for X-ray spectroscopy of fluid samples and their interfaces to solid bodies. What is special is the cell contains electrodes that can expose…
Breaking ground for energy independence on Graciosa
Azorean island installs new energy system developed by the Adlershof-based company Younicos:
With a groundbreaking ceremony, construction of a highly efficient megawatt-scale clean energy system has begun on the Azorean island of Graciosa. The system being installed will enable up to 100 percent wind and…
Root canal treatment procedures investigated at BESSY II
Scientists examined whether mechanical procedures during dental root treatment contribute to micro fractures:
Root canal treatment is sometimes necessary to resolve severe infection, and often saves teeth from being extracted. The procedure involves drilling an opening through the crown in order to reach the inflamed pulp…
Collaboration between SCIENION and GENOMICA is bearing fruit
Launch of a novel multiplex based detection kit for 18 microorganism causing Sexual Transmitted Infections:
SCIENION AG and GENOMICA S.A.U announced today the launch of multiplex CE-IVD tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), CLART® STI A&B. According to recent estimates, the global incidence rate for curable STI…
HZB Freigeist Fellow Dr. Annika Bande
The theoretical chemist explores interatomic Coulombic decay:
As of early October, the HZB is home to one of the Volkswagen Foundation's Freigeist Fellows: Dr. Annika Bande recently joined Prof. Dr. Emad Aziz' institute “Methods for Material Development”. There she will build up…
BESSY in pictures
A Photographer`s Views of Research Facilities:
For his final exam, photography student Kevin Fuchs has taken pictures of the reseach facilities BESSY II and BER II and the scientists working there. Swiss born Fuchs now invides for a preview of his pictures and…
New light on the “Split Peak” in x-ray (RIXS) spectra of Alcohols
HZB researchers find conclusive explanation for the phenomenon:
New study from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in the journal “Structural Dynamics” makes sense of mysterious spectra, paving way for RIXS spectroscopy probe dynamic electronic structure of complex liquids and…
Adlershof Equipment for Nobel Prize Winners
Congratulations to Stefan W. Hell, W.E. Moerner, and Eric Betzig:
PicoQuant congratulates Stefan W. Hell, W.E. Moerner, and Eric Betzig, who have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of "super-resolved fluorescence microscopy". We are proud to…
Leafy Adlershof living with “Charlotte”
“Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft” building cooperative creates 121 apartments:
The buildings are going to be luminous, with lots of windows looking out on the leafy surroundings. “Charlotte”, as the “Charlottenburger Baugenossenschaft” building cooperative is commonly called throughout its…
Portable tools for Monitoring of Marine Toxins and ensure consumer safety without animal-testing
Project of Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), MBio Diagnostics and SCIENION create :
The Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast and MBio Diagnostics today announced that IGFS is using SCIENION technology for the manufacturing of portable immunoassay cartridges.…