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“Innovation takes courage” – and consulting

Lawyer Harald Keil believes in Adlershof:

“You really had to believe in Adlershof,” lawyer Harald Keil from the law firm Bilk and Keil replies to why he settled down here in 1998. He specialised in IT and media law already as a trainee, a fairly young field…

Software for Health

Adlershof’s arivis AG develops applications for the life science sector:

The whole life sciences sector now heavily relies on effective and secure information processing. But off-the-shelf IT solutions are usually not helpful. Software specialists such as those from arivis AG are thus…

Spanish Sales Success for LUM and excellent customer loyalty program in Israel

The 15th International Sales Meeting took place at the headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof in the end of January. LUM is market leader for innovative analytical instruments for particle characterization and…

News vacuum solutions for the analytical market

Pfeiffer Vacuum set new standards with turbopumps:

Pfeiffer Vacuum, the global leader in vacuum technology, will be participating in the Pittcon trade show in Chicago from March 3 – 6, 2014 and the analytica show in Munich from April 1 – 4, 2014. “We will be…

Revealing secrets of exploding clusters

MBI scientists observe novel ionization mechanisms:

The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities likefree-electron lasers. In a recent publication it was shown that the…

Lesswire presents Car2X transceiver module

Wireless module improves safety and efficiency on the roads:

Lesswire, a leading supplier of wireless connectivity solutions for OEMs, appliance manufacturers and system integrators, presents the first wireless module for Car2X applications. The module, called WiBear ITS, makes…

Next generation technology of thin film silicon on glass

Demonstration of a world record value for the open-circuit voltage of 582 mV for c-Si on glass by HZB researchers:

MASDAR PV and HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM Berlin have strengthened their R&D partnership, focusing resources on development of next generation thin film Si technology. After successful cooperation in the development of Masdar…

PicoQuant is partner of the European BabyLux project for premature babies

Nine organizations from Italy, Spain, Germany and Denmark have launched an innovative technique that accurately detects oxygen in the brain:

Nine European partners have started the initiative “BabyLux”, a partially funded project by the European Commission that aims to reduce the risk of brain damage of babies born prematurely. The group of researchers,…

Dr. Martin Hempel receives the Adlershof Dissertation Prize 2013

On February 13, the Adlershof Dissertation Award was granted to Dr. Martin Hempel of the Max-Born-Institute (MBI). In competition with two other nominees and according to the jury's unanimous opinion, he presented…

Light-induced degradation in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells

New insight into microscopic mechanism:

Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) have taken a leap forward towards a deeper understanding of an undesired effect in thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon – one that has puzzled the…

Glaciers and mountains in 3D

DLR special camera flies over Himalayas for first time:

Time and again, Himalayan landslides and flash floods cost the lives of dozens of people in Nepal, sweeping away entire villages and infrastructure like bridges and roads. Until now, the images of this remote region…

Magnetic switch gets closer to application

Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low electric fields. Their results are inspiring for future…

Award Winning Ostendum Lab-on-a-Chip Nanodevices are produced with SCIENION’s sciFLEXARRAYER SX

SCIENION AG today announced that Ostendum R&D B.V., a Dutch company focused on the development and production of fast, highly sensitive, portable, easy-to-use and cost-effective biosensors, is using SCIENION’s…

From a carpet of nanorods to a thin film solar cell absorber within a few seconds

Research teams at the HZB and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this…

Adlershof Special 33

IT for efficiency and quality of life:

Smart plugs // Wirelessly secure // Future mobility

Adlershof Special 32: Future Energy – Energy Future

The energy efficient city of tomorrow // Economical and reliable supply // New recipes from the silicon kitchen

If Not Us, Who?

Editorial by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Ziegler, Department of Energy Management, Technische Universität Berlin :

Looking at the development of energy industry over the past centuries, an interesting time constant becomes apparent. Up until now, it took about 50 years i.e., two generations, for energy sources (coal, oil, gas) and…

The energy efficient city of tomorrow

Interview with the managers of the project “HighTech – LowEx”:

The project “HighTech – LowEx: Energy efficient Berlin-Adlershof 2020” is the first comprehensive energy concept to be drawn up for a complex urban area used jointly by scientists, researchers, businesses, and…

BESSY II: Snap-shots of dynamic processes at highest spatial resolution

New holographic process uses image-stabilised X-ray camera:

A team headed by Stefan Eisebitt has developed a new X-ray holography method that will enable snap-shots of dynamic processes at highest spatial resolution. The efficiency of the new method is based on a X-ray…

Economical and reliable supply

Adlershof’s energy concept 2020+ is targeting the 30% reduction of primary energy consumption:

Adlershof is growing – and growing at the same time are the energy supply requirements for the Technology Park. “It was forecast a few years ago that the networks in future could be beset with supply problems, so…