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Mapping the landscape of Caesium based inorganic halide perovskites
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
Scientists reveal Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the nanoscale
The material could allow data processing with significantly less energy input:
Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by…
The magic of transience
New on Instagram – Exploring the charm of forgotten places:
Adlershof reinvented itself after reunification. But some things outlived this historical turning point. Exactly how visible is former East Germany in Adlershof? We went out into the Science City to look for…
Order in the disorder
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
Oliver Arnhold (Reiner Lemoine Institut) and team win DIN Innovation Award
New DIN guideline accelerates the expansion of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles:
Oliver Arnhold and the consortium around the DIN SPEC 91433 have won the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) Innovator Award 2020. With these awards, DIN honors special projects and commitments in the field of…
Adlershof Journal November/December 2020
Art, food and culture: Discover the unknown side of the Science City:
Discover the possibilities! An expedition through Adlershof // The magic of transience: exploring the charm of forgotten places // New headquarters of the machine building company Jonas & Redmann // An era of…
Where Fontane stopped rambling: A Technological Switzerland
Essay by Matthias Gerschwitz, a marketing and communications specialist, writer, and satirist:
Do you remember “Die Mundorgel”? The small red book and a collection of songs that people would belt out on bus rides, youth camps, and bonfires? It featured songs full of travelling tales and Wanderlust – which…
In conversation with Bernd Haase
A digitisation professional and big fan of the landscape park Johannisthal/Adlershof:
If you want to immerse yourself in the history of the Science City Adlershof, make a stop at Bernd Haase’s DSC Digital Service Center. As a qualified measurement technician, he worked for East German television in the…
The falafel artist
Walid Hreich supplies Adlershof with Oriental dishes:
Some of his customers now come all the way from Köpenick. Some as far as Tempelhof. And so, it is safe to say that, over the course of three years, this simple food stall in front of the Centre for IT and Media has…
Discover the possibilities!
How an apprentice, a researcher, and a young entrepreneur explore Adlershof:
There is life after work. We wanted to know what young people, who haven’t been working on the site for very long, do in their free time or during their lunch break? Do they have any good tips? A tour for discovering…
The culinary diversity of the Science City
From Mediterranean and Italian to Vietnamese – these are Adlershof’s newest restaurants:
Adlershof’s culinary diversity is growing. At three new restaurants, the owners, chefs, and cooks have created their own culinary world and are now luring in customers – not just at lunch time. Two of the showcased…
A three-point landing on Segelfliegerdamm
Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann has a new headquarters in Adlershof:
Custom machine building company Jonas & Redmann will be moving into its new headquarters on Segelfliegerdamm in Adlershof in autumn. Segelfliegerdamm roughly translates to glider pilot causeway, which is a fitting…
New DFG research group on mixed crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate
IKZ is member of the new research group “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”:
Dr. Steffen Ganschow of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is member of the new DFG research group FOR5044 “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”. The research group will investigate…
An era of side effects
The Humboldt Laboratory will open on 7 January 2021 at Humboldt Forum. It will also feature research from Adlershof:
A thinking space, a collaborative research project, and a place where science and the public enter into a dialogue: the Humboldt Laboratory in Berlin-Mitte will open its gates on 7 January 2021. The inaugural…
Research as an art, art as research
Light installations, art in buildings, historical monuments: an expedition through Adlershof:
The Technology Park Adlershof in autumn. Shiny new buildings, the doors of high-tech companies and institutes are locked, only few people are outside. Hurrying across the site, it could easily seem like purely…
Inspiring women in science
In the Marthe Vogt Podcast of the Forschungsverbund Berlin, junior researchers share stories about their journey into science:
For the majority of women in science, doctoral and postdoctoral phases continue to be the most vulnerable time in their careers. In the new Marthe Vogt Podcast by the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB), Natalia…
Secure satellite communication – Berlin team wins INNOspace Masters 2019/20
Project “QuMSeC” of TU, HU and FBH becomes overall winner of the DLR innovation competition:
The winners of the INNOspace Masters competition, which is organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), have been announced: On 14 October, a Berlin-based team from Technische Universität, Humboldt-Universität and…
Helmholtz-Zentrum is one of the best trainers in Berlin
The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:
The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…
William F. Meggers Award of the SAS presented to FBH authors
The prize recognizes the paper as the outstanding publication of the year 2019 in the journal “Applied Spectroscopy”:
The paper Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy with Charge-Shifting Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) Lock-In Detection was honored with the prestigious William F. Meggers Award of the Society for Applied…
PicoQuant GmbH strengthens local presence in China
Chinese customers benefit from a website in Chinese and a strong local presence:
To better serve its growing Chinese customer base, PicoQuant GmbH now has an official Chinese website that offers first-hand information about PicoQuant products and applications. Together with 20 trained sales and…