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Two Winners of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2020
Dr. Chayanika Das (BAM) and Svea Stephan (KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte) won the Adlershof competition:
Dr. Chayanika Das, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) with Breaking the Wall of MAGNESIUM CORROSION and Svea Stephan, KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, with Breaking the Wall of EXPLOITING…
Atom-Billiards with X-Rays
A new Approach to look inside of Molecules:
Since the early days of quantum mechanics, it is known that photons also possess momentum. The photon’s ability to transfer momentum was used in a novel approach by scientists of the Max Born Institute, Uppsala…
A second DLR study on COVID-19 and mobility
Public transport wanes in popularity, private transport gains in importance:
Public transport is losing ground in Germany, while the importance of individual means of transport, especially private cars, is increasing. These are the key findings of the second survey conducted by the German…
First measurement results of the CHEOPS space telescope were published
WASP-189b is one of the hottest exoplanets known to date:
Initial measurements made by the European CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope indicate that the giant planet, WASP-189b, located 326 light years from Earth, glows as hot as a small star as it…
HZB & IKZ Bundle Their Competencies In Crystalline Energy And Quantum Materials
On September 11, 2020, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) signed a cooperation agreement to advance joint research on energy and quantum materials. As part of the…
Dr. Raphael Jay has received the Carl-Ramsauer-Award for his excellent dissertation
The physicist studied ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in iron complexes:
Dr. Raphael Jay has received this year's Carl-Ramsauer-Prize of the German Physical Society of Berlin (DPGzB). The prize honours outstanding dissertations in physics and related fields and will be awarded during a…
Solar-cell façade at HZB undergoes real-life testing
360 solar modules integrated into the building envelope of the new BESSY testing hall:
Solar-modules shimmer bright blue on the cladding of a new building at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). They are special CIGS thin-film modules custom-developed and produced in Germany for integration into the…
PicoQuant’s rapidFLIM HiRes combines ultra fast FLIM imaging with outstanding 10 ps time resolution
Users can now visualize dynamic processes in cells or tissues with unprecedented acquisition speed and time resolution:
Imaging dynamic processes in tissues or cells require methods that are fast, reliable, and quantitative. Scientists and engineers at PicoQuant have developed rapidFLIMHiRes which enables imaging samples at up to 15…
Self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons
Mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibration:
One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced dynamics of molecules is to observe time-dependent changes in the structure of molecules, which result from the absorption of light, as directly and…
Kick-off for Research Training Group “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”
The Research Training Group (RTG) 2575 “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) has started its work:
The Research Training Group 2575 “Rethinking Quantum Field Theory”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started its work. Due to the pandemic, the hiring of the first two cohorts was delayed until…
Adlershof company TIWARI offers online service for 3D printing of metals and ceramics
RAPTOR technology enables cost-effective 3D printing:
TIWARI Scientific Instruments is a hardware-oriented company, currently incubated by the European Space Agency (ESA), and aiming at leveraging their strong connection to the Space industry for accelerating…
High-Quality Crystals for Advanced Research
DESY and Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung sign cooperation agreement:
Cooperation between DESY and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) will literally become closer in the future. The Berlin Leibniz-Institute will establish a branch office on the Hamburg campus. Last week,…
Production facilities for silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum
New facilities pave the way for industrial-scale production:
Perovskites are regarded as promising materials for solar cells, able to be manufactured at low cost while at the same time being extremely efficient. They are particularly suitable for tandem solar cells that combine…
Efficient conversion of the wavelength
By “upconversion” of photons, researchers at HZB and BAM achieve an up to a one-thousand-fold increase in the electric field strength of the light waves:
The region of the spectrum that can be utilised for producing electrical energy can be considerably extended by converting low-energy (longer wavelength) photons into high-energy (shorter wavelength) photons. But so…
Adlershof Journal September/October 2020
Staying in touch: networking in an era of social distancing:
Regional and digital: Mixed Reality for Business // Healthy in Adlershof: From company relay race to reflection workshop // Leading the charge: Environmentally friendly corporate fleets //
ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit
The researcher is investigating a new class of materials for energy storage at Helmholtz-Zentrum:
Dr. Tristan Petit has received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council for 1.5 million euros over the next five years. The materials researcher will use the grant to investigate a new class of…
Strong fields and ultrafast motions
Experiments at the Max Born Institute demonstrate how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water:
Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in their environment. New experiments demonstrate how in presence of such fields free electrons are…
Change at the top of the Berlin laser diode manufacturer TOPTICA eagleyard
Claus Heitmann succeeds Dirk Schumann:
As of 9/1/2020 Dipl.-Ing. Claus Heitmann joins the management of TOPTICA eagleyard as Managing Director in Berlin alongside Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Muchametow. Claus Heitmann studied microsystems technology engineering and…
Distinguished Service Award for Wolfgang Heinrich
FBH researcher was honoured for outstanding contributions to the IEEE MTT Society and the microwave profession:
Wolfgang Heinrich was honored with the IEEE MTT Distinguished Service Award 2020. The prize recognizes his significant contributions and outstanding service to the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the…
Eight billion world powers and I: On the relationship of the community and the individual
Essay by Nora Lessing, science writer from Berlin:
We call him The Joker. Casually steering his frog-green sports car with one hand, he whizzes past our house every evening, circling the block. He controls his car as well as our destinies: when The Joker comes from…