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Color Duality in Photons

Work of the physicist Sven Ramelow selected as one of the “Highlights of the Year 2016”:

The paper “Ramsey Interference with Single Photons”[1] and accompanying Viewpoint “Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors”[2] have been selected as one of the Highlights of the Year 2016 by APS Physics. It was co-authored…

Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide

Strengthening energy materials research at HZB:

Dr. Matthew T. Mayer from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He will be…

Fuel cells with PFIA-membranes

Experiments at BESSY II allow in situ analysis of water management which is helpful for further improvements of fuel cells:

HZB scientists have teamed up with partners of 3M Company in order to explore the water management in an alternative proton exchange membrane type, called PFIA. The experiments have been conducted using the infrared…

Younicos to build 49 MW battery system in UK

Centrica selects Younicos to design and deliver one of the world’s largest battery storage systems:

Energy storage pioneer Younicos has been selected by Centrica to design and deliver one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated battery-based energy storage systems. To be completed by winter 2018, the 49…

New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group to boost energy materials research at HZB

The new group is working to prolong the life span of perovskite solar cells to 25 years and longer:

Dr. Antonio Abate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. He came out on top in a highly competitive selection process of the…

Light controls repair of materials

Team of researchers led by chemists of the HU develops self-repairing plastic coating:

A team of German researchers led by chemists of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has developed a new type of plastic coating, which can heal damages selectively by illumination with light. A heat-induced repair of…

SENperc PV wins “Innovation Award 2016”

Measuring device is used for quality control for PERC cell manufacturing in the photovoltaic sector:

SENTECH is winner of the Innovation Award 2016 Berlin Brandenburg. The SENperc PV was honored as one of the five most innovative products of 2016. The SENperc PV is used for quality control for PERC cell back side…

Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG: Local court opens insolvency proceedings

The local court Berlin-Charlottenburg resolved to open the insolvency proceedings over the assets of Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG (ISIN: DE000A1MMHE3) and its German subsidiaries Heliocentris Academia GmbH,…

skytron energy chosen to equip largest power plant in the Caribbean

Adlershof company provides monitoring and supervision technology for a 57.6 MWp solar power plant in Puerto Rico:

The plant named “Oriana” is owned by solar power producer and investor Sonnedix and is the largest plant of its kind in the Caribbean. Oriana has started producing clean energy from September. It will cover the…

Dr. Lorenzo Bianchi awarded with Carl-Ramsauer-Prize 2016

Dr. Lorenzo Bianchi, former member of the Emmy-Noether Junior Research group of Dr. Valentina Forini in the working group of Prof. Jan Plefka, who is a member of IRIS Adlershof, has been awarded the…

Ice cold record at BESSY II

Ten million ions cooled for the first time to 7.4 K / Magnetic ground states spectroscopically ascertained:

An international team from Sweden, Japan, and Germany has set a new temperature record for what are known as quadrupole ion traps that capture electrically charged molecular ions. They succeeded in cooling about ten…

Dr. Maria Richter of the Max Born Institute receives the Promotion Prize 2016 of the Leibniz Association

At its annual meeting the Leibniz Association in Berlin awarded physicist Maria Richter for her outstanding doctoral thesis:

Dr. Maria Richter developed in her PhD thesis "Imaging and controlling electronic and nuclear dynamics in strong laser fields" new theoretical and practical methods to visualize the ultrafast response of atoms and…

More energy from the sun

Researchers road-test powerful method for studying singlet fission:

Singlet fission could have a central role in the future development of solar cells Physicists from HZB, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Cambrigde have successfully employed a powerful technique for…

SENperc PV nominated for the “Innovation Award 2016”

SENTECH is very proud to announce that the new SENperc PV has been nominated for the Innovation Award 2016 Berlin Brandenburg. The innovative tool features quality control for PERC cell back side manufacturing in the…

Vaxxilon named “Science Start-Up of the Year 2016”

Award in the “Falling Walls Venture” Science Competition:

Under the motto “Building bridges, transcending borders”, 23 start-up companies presented their research projects at the Falling Walls Venture science competition on 8 November in Berlin. The company nominated by Max…

Chorafas Prize awarded to Neysha Lobo Ploch

Dr. Neysha Lobo Ploch has been awarded with the renowned Dimitri N. Chorafas Prize for her thesis entitled "chip designs for high efficiency III-nitride based ultraviolet light emitting diodes with enhanced light…

Liberta Partners acquires skytron® energy

Liberta Partners, a Munich-based Multi-Family Office, has acquired the leading provider of monitoring, control and supervision systems, skytron energy. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “skytron energy’s…

FBH develops red-emitting laser module

Miniaturized laser module with polarization maintaining single-mode fiber output allows user-friendly out-of-the-lab usage:

Applications such as holography or interferometry are dependent on coherent laser beams at wavelengths visible to the human eye. So far, gas lasers like HeNe lasers are utilized for such purposes, but they suffer from…

Speeding up CIGS solar cell manufacture

Project speedCIGS is to be funded with 4.7 million euros by the Federal Ministry of Economics:

A project consortium from research and industry involving the Competence Centre for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has been granted a major third-party-funded project by the Federal Ministry…

Understanding the stability, behaviour and surface properties of nanoparticles and quantum dots using Hansen Solubility Parameters

LUM’s CEO Dietmar Lerche combines STEP-Technology® with multi-sample analytical photocentrifugation:

Devices based on quantum dots and smart nanoparticles are currently getting a lot of attention. For instance, the colours, contrast and brightness of displays based on quantum dots provide benefits for users of TVs…