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IT from Adlershof enhances TV-Images
...and secures industrial production:
Whether TV images, sound, or lignite – the efficiency of their production is enhanced by components from the company FOC fibre optical components. And where the security of industrial production is concerned, this…
Cash, crime, and cryptography
They manage dollar reserves, itemise valuable museum collections, and encrypt NATO data. The software companies of Adlershof provide developments that enhance security at many authorities and business…
By car, train, and cargo bike
IT for the mobile generation:
IT for the mobile generation – this is a discipline that a number of companies are tackling in Adlershof. Ideas for the mobility of the future include precision navigation to the nearest metre on forest tracks and in…
Narrow line width made affordable
eagleyard Photonics unveils the very cost effective, frequency stabilized Ridge Waveguide Laser product series (RWS):
High quality and cost effectiveness can perfectly match if combined properly within a single component. This does at least apply to eagleyard’s new stabilized ridge waveguide laser diode series where the narrow line…
Touchdown at 633 nm
eagleyard Photonics introduces a new family of single frequency red laser diodes:
With its new DBR1) 633 nm laser diode family, eagleyard Photonics expands its widely introduced Near-IR portfolio into the red. Integrated within the high reliable TO package style, eagleyard’s new GaAs2)-based DBR…
TOPTICA Buys Laser Diode Maker eagleyard
„Closer future collaboration is strengthening Berlin as a center hub for optical technologies“:
Reflecting the continuous growth and to strengthen the core competency „diode lasers“, TOPTICA Photonics AG of Graefelfing/Munich has acquired the majority ownership of the Berlin-based laser diode manufacturer…
Electrons behave like light
Graphene on Nickel:
Dr. Andrei Varykhalov and his colleagues in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader investigated at BESSY II the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene and achieved an astonishing result. They could show…
About dispersible nanoparticles, stable pigment pastes, hot cooked cheese and adhesives
International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Material Testing in Berlin, March 7-8:
At first sight, blood and food, household products and industrial nanoparticles have nothing in common. A closer look reveals, all are subject to the same physical principles with respect to the characterization of…
Small and efficient
Water nanodroplets cool biomolecules ultrafast:
Researchers of the Max-Born-Institute at Berlin, Germany, have observed how biomolecules transfer energy into extremely small water droplets in their environment. A water shell consisting of only 3 water…
Tracking down smallest biomarkers
PTB and Dectris have developed a vacuum-compatible X-ray detector that allows the size of low-contrast nano-objects to be determined:
Microvesicles are smallest cell elements which are present in all body fluids and are different, depending on whether a person is healthy or sick. This could contribute to detecting numerous diseases, such as, e.g.,…
Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM
Perfect or poor? The award-winning Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac will find out:
The Innovation Prize Berlin Brandenburg 2012 was awarded to LUM GmbH for the new Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac®. Adhesive and tensile strength of composite materials, multi-layer films and bonded parts are determined…
Call for Applications: 15 doctoral fellowships for SALSA ̶ School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof
Online from 15 November to 14 December 2012:
SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, recently established at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative, is announcing 15 doctoral fellowships to…
SOLON solar modules 100% resistant against PID
SOLON solar modules scored outstanding marks during the latest PID resistance test performed by Photovoltaik Institute Berlin. The SOLON Black 230 is 100% resistant against potential induced degradation (PID). PID is…
SOLON Elco Renewables Ltd.: Joint Venture for Solar Power Plants in Israel
Power plants with a total capacity of 8.5 MW currently being implemented:
SOLON Energy GmbH and the Israeli energy and technology company Elco have founded the joint venture SOLON Elco Renewables Ltd. The new company, located in Netanya near Tel Aviv, plans and builds solar power plants in…
Joint technologies: SCIENION and GENOMICA expand collaboration to provide a new innovative printing technology for multiple applications.
Companies jointly present at Medica, November 14-17, 2012, in Düsseldorf:
SCIENION AG and GENOMICA S.A. Unipersonal, today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership. Both companies will offer to the life science market a jointly developed new printing plate technology platform.…
Adlershof Special: IT and Media
“Natural interface”: Interview with Prof Jähnichen, Head of Fraunhofer FIRST and President of the German association of computer scientists // Faster to the end: Smartphones as multifunctional mobile communication…
Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac is a hot favourite for a prize
LUM is nominated for the Innovation Award Berlin-Brandenburg 2012:
LUM GmbH is nominated for the Innovation Award with the new Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac. From more than 100 applications LUM was nominated into the final five candidates.With the LUMiFrac® LUM, currently known as…
Valles Marineris – the largest canyon in the Solar System
High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) has been taking spectacular image strips:
Mars is clearly much smaller than Earth, but it can still come up with impressive superlatives. Several landscape features have unquestionably enormous dimensions – at over 21 kilometres in height, Olympus Mons is the…
SOLON is Building a 2 MW Solar Power Plant on a Landfill in Thuringia
SOLON Energy GmbH has been awarded the contract to build a photovoltaic power plant with a total capacity of 2 MW on an abandoned landfill in Jena-Ilmnitz (Thuringia). At the behest of the city of Jena, SOLON is…
Two become one – Multi-wavelength-LUMiSizer® 65x
Higher benefit in nanotechnology and for beverage development :
LUM GmbH is market leader in innovative analysers for direct and accelerated stability analysis and particle characterization of dispersions.With the integration of two different light sources in one instrument LUM…