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Watching Single Macromolecules Move in Response to Light

Nature has long inspired scientists with its seemingly unlimited ability to harness solar energy and to utilize it to drive various physiological processes. With the help of man-made molecular photoswitches, we now…

Europe’s Largest Battery Storage Project Becomes Operational in the UK

Adlershof’s Younicos contributes control software for 6MW/10MWh Smarter Network Storage Project:

Europe’s largest battery storage project has been officially opened by Amber Rudd, Minister at Department for Energy and Climate Change at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos…

Mars Express mission extended until the end of 2018

DLR’s Stereo Camera HRSC is the longest-serving German experiment in the Solar System:

It follows an elliptical orbit around Mars, undisturbed, almost lonely – the orbiter Mars Express. For 11 years now – to be precise since Christmas Eve 2003 – the first and, for some time now, European Space Agency…

Silver Nanoislands grown by Atomic Layer Deposition

SENTECH presented the new ALD Real Time Monitor at the NRW Nano-Conference:

The NRW Nano-Conference took place on 1st-2nd of December 2014 in Dortmund (Germany). This important conference welcomed its guests to participate the dialogue about opportunities and challenges of nanotechnology. At…

Lively exchange at User Meeting

More than 500 users of HZB's large-scale equipment met in Adlershof:

From December 3 to 5, more than 500 users of HZB's BER II and BESSY II large-scale equipment met up to discuss the current state of technology and exchange their views on pressing scientific issues. The Science Day…

Data transfer between satellites – quick as a wink

The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut supplies a decisive component – a particularly robust and capable pump laser module:

Transferring high data rates in real-time twenty-four-seven – a research team, under the direction of the European Space Agency ESA, has now come significantly closer to this aim. For the first time, data have been…

Filming chemistry with a high speed x-ray camera

MBI Scientists show how breaking and making of chemical bonds during a reaction can be visualized:

Chemistry happens all around us. A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms in and between molecules, the breaking of old and the formation of new bonds. The glue that binds atoms in molecules and creates the…

Adlershof Special 37: Media

On air:

The Show before the Show // Setting the Stage // Setting the right tone

Tremendous ongoing changes

Editorial by Goetz Hoefer, Studio managing director Hamburg Berlin Brandenburg GmbH:

Around 2,000 companies from the television industry benefit from the outstanding conditions provided in the German capital region. This includes the UFA group, Europe's largest production company, and teamWorx, who…

Berlin's most outstanding media site

Adlershof offers first-class production conditions:

On August 25th and September 8th 2002, the royalty of political journalism in Germany poured into Adlershof. This was new in the history of German media: for the first time during the general election campaign, a…

Setting the right tone

Adlershof can look back on an impressive legacy in sound:

Sound brings life to a film, according to Michael Kaczmarek, manager of K-13 Kinomischung. For almost a hundred years now, multifaceted sound artists from Adlershof and Johannisthal have been breathing life into…

Setting the stage

There is an endless coming and going of set designers in Adlershof:

Oscar Wilde once said: ”The stage is the return of art to life.” However, the ”stage” would often fall short without specialists such as the set designers of the companies drei d medien service and Set-Time…

The Show before the Show

Behind the stage of ”The Voice of Germany”:

Light, sound, make-up, dress: all of these things are rehearsed and checked hours before the show to prevent mistakes from slipping in. In total, around 300 people work behind the stage of ”The Voice of Germany”. One…

Research and deliver

Four Adlershof media companies successfully produce TV content for the curious:

Weather phenomena, perceptual illusions, psychoacoustics: what could be more obvious for a City of Media than to look at these things more closely given that your next-door-neighbour is such a unique place of science…

A spectacular background actor

Adlershof as a backdrop:

Tatort and Polizeiruf, two very popular German crime series, are shot here on a regular basis. Carmakers such as BMW, Lexus, and Porsche advertise using the high-tech scenery that Adlershof has to offer. Not only the…

Organic layer adds light particles

HZB team investigates materials with higher efficiencies for thin-film solar cells:

Solar cells can only use photons with energies above a specific threshold to generate electricity. A German-Australian research collaboration has now combined solar cells with an organic material which can “add up”…

Pfeiffer Vacuum Welcomes 2014 Röntgen Prize Winner

Coherent superposition of quantum states in atoms / Vacuum is essential for basic scientific research :

This year, the Justus Liebig University Giessen is awarding its Röntgen Prize to Prof. Dr. Jörg Evers. The Röntgen Prize is awarded each year for outstanding work on basic research into radiation physics and radiation…

PicoQuant nominated for innovation award

For the development of the MicroTime 200 STED PicoQuant is nominated for the "Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg":

Out of 122 applications, PicoQuant is nominated for the innovation award Berlin Brandenburg 2014 (Innovationspreis Berlin Brandenburg) for the development of the MicroTime 200 STED. This year's ten nominees were…

Warping in topological insulators

HZB physicists investigated the direction of motion of electrons and their impact on lossless electricity and information transport:

Topological insulators are promising to develop into a material for lossless electricity and information transport. Now, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga and colleagues from HZB investigated for the first time whether the…

The longer the better

Optical long-wavelength pulses generate brilliant ultrashort hard x-ray flashes:

Researchers from the Max-Born-Institut and the Technical University of Vienna present a novel table-top source of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses with an unprecedented photon flux. X-rays are a key tool for…