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Johannes Klick © WISTA Management GmbH
08.01.2020

The cyber sentry

Johannes Klick consults companies on IT security issues:

A massive airstrike, a lightning attack in a computer game, or radiation that wreaks havoc in a computer’s processor? ‘Wikipedia’ provides several possible explanations as to what an ‘Alpha Strike’ may be. Johannes…

asis management team © WISTA Management GmbH
08.01.2020

The future makers

Adlershof brings forth high-tech founders, not copycats:

Starting a business in Adlershof is almost certainly a ticket to success. The strategies pursued by the founders, however, show that very different paths can lead them there. What unites them is that Adlershof turns…

BPW team © WISTA Management GmbH
08.01.2020

A user’s guide to starting a business

The Business Plan Competition Berlin-Brandenburg turns 25 / 2nd Meet-up at the Technology Park Adlershof on 13/02/2020:

On 13 February 2020, founders, entrepreneurs and jurors will meet up at the 2nd Meet-up of the Business Plan Competition Berlin-Brandenburg (BPW) in Adlershof. One of the most well-known business plan competitions of…

Manuel Popiol, Oliver Thronicker © WISTA Management GmbH
08.01.2020

The water testers

The company Blue Biolabs develops microbiology test kits for wells:

Blue Biolabs GmbH moved to the Technology Park Adlershof in last autumn. The analysts at the company’s laboratories trace iron bacteria and other sources of water pollution. Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Berlin’s public…

Cigdem Issever, HU Berlin © WISTA Management GmbH
08.01.2020

On the origin and evolution of the world

The physicist Cigdem Issever just moved from Oxford to the HU Berlin:

What is dark matter? How does matter obtain mass? The physicist Cigdem Issever, who took up her post at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) and the DESY research centre in Zeuthen this summer, is seeking answers to…

Pulse laser source for line scanners LiDAR ©FBH/P. Immerz
07.01.2020

Versatile in use – FBH semiconductor light sources

FBH presents new developments at Photonics West 2020 (San Francisco):

FBH exhibits novel diode lasers and modules at Photonics West 2020. Applications include materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, and (Raman) spectroscopy. Progress in UV LEDs is presented jointly with the spin-off…

A² programme manager Yvonne Plaschnick © WISTA Management GmbH
07.01.2020

Dynamism meets experience

Innovative start-ups and established companies successfully collaborate in the A² Adlershof programme:

Finding a parking spot with an app, documenting a house’s mains connections using a smartphone, testing the functionality of your home’s heating with a camera, or checking whether the waste at recycling locations…

Nano-Join founders in Adlershof © WISTA Management GmbH
07.01.2020

Secret ingredient for silver conductors

Start-up Nano-Join develops custom-made silver sintered pastes to improve efficiency of lasers and high-performance electronics:

Improving efficiency of lasers, high-performance electronics, and other (opto-)electronic systems often has to do without taking up additional space in a device. However, the higher the performance density, the more…

Jonas Wanke © WISTA Management GmbH
06.01.2020

Bitten by the invention bug

Eleven inventions: Jonas Wanke from Adlershof discovered his passion for programming at the ‘Jugend forscht’ science competition:

He builds soap usage reminder facilities and makes dogs glow in the dark: Jonas Wanke is only 19 years old and an avid inventor. An Adlershof native, he has competed in Germany’s most famous junior science…

17.12.2019

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...

DLR focal plane module ©ESA/C. Carreau
16.12.2019

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…

2019 Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Award © M. Setzpfandt/HZB
16.12.2019

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…

13.12.2019

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…

Magnetic liquid for NanoTherm® treatment. Credit: MagForce AG
13.12.2019

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…

11.12.2019

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…

Logo: iSwitch
10.12.2019

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…

Gallium nitride amplifier © FBH/schurian.com
29.11.2019

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…

Graphic © MBI
18.11.2019

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…

Logo: GRK
11.11.2019

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…

Prof. Dr. Steve Albrecht © HZB/Michael Setzpfandt
08.11.2019

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…