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Sulfurcell Provides Modules to Berlin’s Largest Rooftop Thin-film PV System

The 1.1 MW (820 MWh/year) System is Installed on the “Am Oktogon” at Adlershof:

Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH today announced its high-performance thin-film modules have been used to construct Berlin’s largest rooftop PV system. The newly installed system at the "Am Oktogon” building at the…

Adlershof Special 16: Photonics

Successful courtship: Adlershof companies with new partners // Photonics in motion: Interview with Dr Bernd Ludwig, Head of the Adlershof Photonics and Optics Centre // “Trust needs time…”: The Berlin-Brandenburg…

Photonics – Key Enabling Technology. By Thomas P. Pearsall, Founder of the European Photonics Industry Consortium

Many of the goods and services that will be available in the market in 2020 are as yet unknown, but the main driving force behind their development will be the deployment of Key Enabling Technologies. Those nations…

Best connections: New connecting technologies for optical components

Also private users are to benefit from the fast data transfer through fibre optic networks. So that the data can reach every household, these networks must branch. Yet it’s not so easy to weld fibre optics or connect…

The Minimax Principle: Forth Dimension Displays produces high resolution microdisplays

Tiny microdisplays are revolutionising optics with high resolution images that are mirrored directly in front of the eye. Viewers feel they are in the thick of the action, and especially pilots will appreciate the…

“Trust needs time…”: The Berlin-Brandenburg Optical Network has turned ten

Ten years ago, the society OpTec Berlin-Brandenburg (OpTecBB) was set up. Since then it has acquired a reputation as a network for companies and research institutes far beyond the borders of both States. “Trust needs…

Photonics in motion: Interview with Dr Bernd Ludwig, Head of the Adlershof Photonics and Optics Centre

ADLERSHOF SPECIAL: There’s motion at the Photonics Centre in Adlershof. Is this more than just the ups and downs in the wake of the crisis and recovery? DR BERND LUDWIG: It’s not as though there had never been a…

Successful courtship: Adlershof companies with new partners

Not all marriages are made in heaven, some are made in technology parks. The location has witnessed no fewer than three of them involving Adlershof photonics companies: the Bruker Corporation and Veeco; First Sensor…

Forum Adlershof: "We're open"

Adlershof has got it's new meeting point:

Centrally located along the main connection Rudower Chaussee, enclosed by the Humboldt-University campus and in close proximity to the Aerodynamic Park, a new venue for information, communication and events has been…

New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells

HZB researchers can take images of small cellular components in their natural environment – while the cell remains intact:

Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have developed a new X-ray nanotomography microscope. Using their new system, they can reveal the structures on the smallest components of mammalian cells in three …

The exotic behaviour from beryllium oxide

HZB researchers may have observed the fastest melting of all time:

Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) observed exotic be-haviour from beryllium oxide (BeO) when they bombarded it with high-speed heavy ions: After being shot in this way, the electrons in the BeO appeared…

New: Clean Energy Trainer

Heliocentris and h-tec cooperate in the field of renewable energies training products:

Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG, a leading specialist in clean energy storage solutions, announces the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of technical and vocational training equipment with h-tec…

Adlershof Journal September/October 2010

"Where do you get the energy from?" Concepts for the green turnaround:

THE FUTURE OF ENERGY // COVER STORIES: Adlershof solar power plant / Ideas in the field of electromobility // NETWORKS: The new Berlin Solar Network // PEOPLE: Chemical engineer Tatjana Čukić // INQUIRED: Power and…

The future of energy. By Energy Economist Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

What will the future of energy be like? Will we be living like our ancestors in the light of candles and travelling on horse drawn wagons, with no electricity or hot running water? Hardly that. As bleak as the…

Power and fuels from sunlight: When is the postfossil age due?

At present, fossil fuels still contribute over 80% of the power generated in Germany. In the process, too much carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, damaging the climate. A reversal has been tabled, but…

The indefatigable: Chemical engineer Tatjana Čukić positively hums with inexhaustible energy

Tatjana Čukić is a genuine live wire: a many faceted perpetuum mobile with a thirst for knowledge. And it only follows that her job centres on energy: the young Serbian works as a chemical engineer at Global Solar…

Solar cells with greater efficiency: So who needs ultrapure silicon?

Adlershof is a significant location for energy research – for instance, climate friendly power generation with solar cells. The price for photovoltaic power generation does not ultimately depend on the production…

Adlershof solar power plant: From testing ground for solar installations to respectable power supply

The new solar cells on the roof of Studio H were the crowning achievement: now numbering twenty one, the photovoltaic installations in Adlershof together generate far in excess of 1 MW of electric power under the…

Fuelling, version 2.0 – ideas in the field of electromobility

The era of crude oil as a fuel is coming to an end, and the demand is for alternatives with less impact on the environment and the climate. Accordingly, Adlershof companies are testing today their mobility concepts of…

Energy project in a glasshouse: Eco friendly CHP

What’s Adlershof doing with 2000 cubic metres of hot water? This isn’t bubbling from a hot spring, but is filling five gigantic heat reservoirs of the new Energy Centre in Adlershof. At its inauguration, the operator…