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Beam diagnostics for future laser wakefield accelerators
Applications of “tabletop particle accelerators” for medicine and research brought closer by a new method which was developed by a team from HZB and PTB:
For decades, particle accelerators have been getting bigger and bigger. In the meantime, ring accelerators with circumferences of many kilometres have reached a practical limit. Linear accelerators in the GHz range…
FBH presents new diode laser and UV LED developments at the Photonics Days Berlin Brandenburg
From October 4 - 7, 2021, the conference will be held in hybrid format / Exhibition on October 6-7 in Berlin-Adlershof:
The four-day conference brings together experts from photonics, optics, microsystems technology, and quantum technology. Scientists from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut will present the latest results on high-power diode…
Tracking down antiferromagnets
Researchers at the Max Born Institute have succeeded in studying an antiferromagnetic sample at a laser-driven laboratory source:
Antiferromagnets are magnetically ordered, but their magnetization exactly cancels out. That is why even their discoverer, Nobel laureate Louis Néel, could not imagine any application for this class of materials.…
You're doing really great: How a digital voice helps me on my way
Essay by Dilek Güngör, journalist, and writer from Berlin:
You can do this. It’s easy. Take your time. Haven’t you noticed how your stamina has improved? You could climb mountains. For four months now, I've been taking the stairs in our house as often as I could. On the…
The minus sign represents something positive
In conversation with Beate Mekiffer, who coordinates innovation projects at WISTA Management GmbH:
To Beate Mekiffer, the minus sign represents something positive. For eleven years now, WISTA Management GmbH’s energy expert has been working on making the high-tech site Adlershof more energy efficient. She does so…
The mobility thinker
Meike Jipp develops concepts for the traffic of the future in Adlershof:
The bus is right on time. Passengers embark. The bus gets them to their desired destination. Or at least to the nearest point of transfer. It goes without saying that green electricity powers the vehicle. It is also…
Smart on the road
The Technology Park manages its sustainable growth with a mobility concept:
The technology campus is growing steadily. But so are the problems with traffic. Using a smart mobility concept, WISTA now plans to turn the wheel to help the site to grow sustainably for the benefit of its staff,…
How can Berlin become climate neutral?
In a new study, Reiner Lemoine Institut and partners recommend more than 50 climate protection measures and call for more binding commitments:
Since 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement has set the marching orders for climate protection. In order to achieve the 1.5° target if possible and at least the 2° target, not only the federal government but also all…
River water and deep storage
BTB is making energy supply greener:
As long as it works, we don't even notice it. The infrastructure of our cities is just there, under our feet and above our heads. Most of us simply take it for granted. Until it blacks out—then we notice. To prevent…
Digital processes
A WISTA facilities manager shows us what the new world of work looks like:
WISTA.Service GmbH looks after around 100 buildings with a combined floor space of several 100,000 square metres, including the most cutting-edge science institutes and technology centres that feature sophisticated…
Digital support for caregivers
Psychologists are working on developing a care robot:
Jotting down tasks, weekly games night reminders, or switching on the lights when necessary: Robots could soon start to make the lives of nursing staff easier. But how would they have to be designed to be accepted?…
Designing trams and subways
What will the next generation look like?:
Whenever new tram or U-Bahn vehicles roll on the tracks, it is likely that IFS Design UG from Adlershof were involved in producing them. The same goes for J/JK, a new U-Bahn model series that will go into series…
“I live in the future”: A glimpse into Future Living
Thanks to smart home technology, everything in Stefan Schwunk’s loft can be controlled using voice control and an app. Water damages, too, are now a thing of the past.:
Imagine yourself living alone. In spite of this, you wake up every morning to the smell of fresh coffee, the shutters open automatically, the oven is preheated ready for the croissants, and the speakers softly play…
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HZB uses electricity-producing facade wall as real laboratory
Solar façade of the new research building in Adlershof was officially commissioned:
In the presence of the State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Energy and Operations of the State of Berlin, Christian Rickerts, the HZB officially commissioned the solar façade of a new research building on 6 September…
Smart diagnostics
Quantune Technologies are revolutionising the use of infrared lasers:
The first few years of a start-up could hardly be more adventurous: Founded with an EXIST grant straight from Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) in October 2019, Quantune Technologies GmbH moved into its labs at…
Atoms enlarged 100 million times
Crystals from Adlershof made possible a world record for electron microscopy imaging:
This picture looks like a great work of art. Red and yellow dots shine from the darkness—arranged in strict fashion along horizontal and vertical lines—some only once, some of them twice. The picture was not, however,…
Adlershof Journal September/October 2021
Mobility, climate, health: It’s in our hands:
Smart diagnostics: Revolutionising infrared lasers // River water and deep storage: Making energy supply greener // Robots in care: HU research project
United for more energy efficiency
EU project funds networks promoting energy saving in Adlershof:
There’s no alternative to saving more energy—for economic as well as ecological reasons. The harmful effects of climate change are becoming increasingly evident in the form of heat waves, melting arctic ice, or…
Artificial intelligence for a successful energy transition
Data-driven risk assessment offered by variante.energy aims at paving the way to a hundred-percent self-sufficiency with green electricity:
The Adlershof-based founding couple behind variate.energy provide decision-making support for companies, communities, and other organisations that seek to decrease their carbon emissions through wind and solar…
Thomas Schröder is the new Executive Board Spokesman of FVB
The Director of the IKZ wants to promote digitalization, internationalization, equality and climate neutrality at Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.:
Professor Thomas Schröder, Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ), is the new Executive Board Spokesman of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) as of September 1, 2021. The term of office is…