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22.05.2014

Younicos wins GreenTec Award 2014

WEMAG battery park is laureate in the category energy:

Younicos is celebrating a triple achievement. The specialists for intelligent storage and grids have won the GreenTec Award for 2014. Berlin-based Younicos had been nominated in the category energy in recognition of…

05.05.2014

New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature

HZB’s Aziz’ team achieves pulse duration of 45 femtoseconds:

The Aziz’ team at the Joint Laboratory between Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has built a laser-based tabletop setup which generates ultrashort XUV light pulses and achieves their monochromatization by implementing…

29.04.2014

Single Molecule Workshop marks 20th anniversary this September

To celebrate the 20th workshop the organizer PicoQuant GmbH has invited some of the most renowned scientists in the field:

This year, PicoQuant will hold the annual workshop on “Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences” for the 20th time. It will take place from September 2 to 5, 2014 in Berlin,…

Single-mode Butterfly 14-pin Laser Module © Lumics GmbH
28.04.2014

Lumics’ new Wavelength

Single-mode butterfly 14-pin modules also available now at 786nm:

Lumics GmbH Berlin announced the broadening of its portfolio of single-mode fiber pigtailed butterfly 14-pin laser diode modules with internal temperature control and monitor photodiode  for analytic, sensing &…

23.04.2014

LET THERE BE LIGHT

Modernized Bunsen hall will shine in new splendor in August 2014:

The largest meeting room in Adlershof, which can accommodate around 450 people, will offer the most modern facilities standard: daylight, air conditioning, accessibility up to the stage and the latest sound and media…

22.04.2014

AC/DC for terahertz waves

Researchers at MBI discover an ultrafast rectifier for terahertz radiation:

In the unit cells of a lithium niobate crystal alternating currents (AC) with a frequency 1000 times higher than that of modern computer systems are transformed into a direct current (DC), thereby generating…

22.04.2014

Younicos Completes Strategic Acquisition of Xtreme Power Assets

Cross Atlantic acquisition elevates Younicos to global leadership position for large scale energy storage solutions:

Younicos Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Younicos AG, a Berlin-based company, acquired Xtreme Power’s assets with a winning bid in a chapter 11 auction supervised by the US District Bankruptcy Court of West…

16.04.2014

Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures

April 2014:

Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany Berlin's biggest media location. On an area of 4.2 km2 1.003 companies and research institutes (status as of March 2014) have settled, all…

16.04.2014

Mobile Network for Myanmar

Heliocentris receives major order to deliver hybrid power solutions:

Heliocentris has received its largest single purchase order since the company’s foundation in 1995. The order comprises the delivery and installation of hybrid power solutions for the build-out of 150 mobile base…

09.04.2014

Industrial exhibition EOSAM 2014 in Berlin Adlershof

September 16th to 19th:

European Optical Society proudly welcomes optics and photonics professionals to its bi-annual conference, the EOSAM 2014 in Berlin. The four-day conference, industrial exhibition (and much more) is expected to gather…

07.04.2014

FBH diode lasers successfully launched into space

Laser diode benches allow communication with Sentinel-1A:

On April 3, 2014 shortly after 11 p.m., the earth resources technology satellite Sentinel-1A successfully left for his mission in space - also aboard are space-qualified laser diode benches from the…

01.04.2014

Adlershof Brains: Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla

The professor of materials science is one of today’s 25 most influential engineers in Germany and is also the scientific director at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB):

What are you currently working on? The HZB operates the synchrotron source BESSY II and the neutron source BER II, on which 3,000 scientists work annually. Two new major projects are currently in the works at…

Pfeiffer Vacuum catalog, "The Vacuum Technology Book" was awarded first prize as the best industry catalog
28.03.2014

INKA Award for „The Vacuum Technology Book“

Pfeiffer Vacuum receives award for best industry catalog:

Pfeiffer Vacuum is the winner of the "INKA" 2013 Award for the best catalog in the Print category. The Pfeiffer Vacuum catalog called "The Vacuum Technology Book" won first prize in the "machinery/equipment" sector,…

27.03.2014

Let there be light: GoPhoton! is ready for launch

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut is German partner of EU initiative:

GoPhoton!, a Pan European outreach project that aims to promote and raise awareness about the ubiquity and industrial and societal importance of the technologies enabled by Photonics. Every time we use the internet,…

Adlershof Special 34 Analytics
25.03.2014

Adlershof Special 34

A prime location for analytics:

Excellence straight from a brown bag // The Photon Counter // Buried layers, hidden treasures

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, President of BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
25.03.2014

Manifold expertise

Editorial by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne, President of BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing:

Almost invisible, but indispensable! Although analytics are seldom the center of attention, as an interdisciplinary science they are of vital importance for the innovation fields of the future. In many cases,…

Analytics in Berlin Adlershof
25.03.2014

A Prime Location for Analytics

New competence-cluster in Adlershof:

The initiative committee “Analytic City Adlershof” wants to connect on-site partners, science and business in the field of analytics and develop an internationally visible competence-cluster. First steps have already…

In the Laboratory: Dr. Michael Maiwald, Head of Division Process Analytical Technology at BAM
25.03.2014

In-line, on-line, at-line

Chemical Process Analysis at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing:

Now and again, Michael Maiwald slips into his lab coat and lends a hand in the laboratory, for example, to use the Online Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometre. Its precision and ability to measure the concentration of…

SALSA director Katharina Schultens
25.03.2014

Excellence straight from a brown bag

At the “School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof”, PhD students learn to think across disciplines:

Ines Gerling is one of around 30 so-called ”fellows“ who are currently obtaining their PhD on a scholarship at the ”School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof“ (SALSA). She earned her master's degree in the didactics of…

The new Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin (EMIL) will start operating in 2015
25.03.2014

Buried layers, hidden treasures

Adlershof’s ingenious strategies of analysis for solar cells and mine deposits:

The inside of a solar cell contains areas in which the desired charge transport might be blocked. Prof. Klaus Lips from the Helmholtz-Centre Berlin (HZB), who teaches ”Analytics for Photovoltaics“ at the FU Berlin,…