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Interesting insights regarding ultraviolet LEDs at ICULTA-2018

Heavy rush at the conference which was organized by ‚Advanced UV for Life‘ and ‚International Ultraviolet Association‘:

The conference’s organizers expected 150 registrations – finally more than 260 participants from 23 countries took part in the ICULTA-2018 – International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications 2018 in…

HI-SCORE international research school: Kick Off Meeting in Berlin

The international research school on solar energy promotes exchange between Germany and Israel and excellent conditions for PhD students:

With a two day kick off meeting at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE on solar energy research has started. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann…

Fertilisers of the Future

The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is developing processes for phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge:

(Almost) nothing works without phosphorus: all living creatures need this nutrient and must absorb it from their food. Although phosphorus is a valuable raw material and its supply is limited, large amounts of it are…

Calls for rapid planning of BESSY III

Evaluation by international panel of experts supports HZB:

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has received an evaluation of “excellent” in a review of science programmes undertaken at all Helmholtz Research Centres. This provides the foundation for future financing of HZB.…

Writing and deleting magnets with lasers

Scientists at BESSY II are encountering a completely new phenomenon:

Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) together with colleagues from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA have found a way to write and…

Bacteria with a magnetism sense

Experiments at BESSY II reveal how the inner compass is constructed:

Bacteria exist in many shapes and with very different talents. Magnetotactic bacteria can even sense the earth’s magnetic field by making use of magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal…

Freeing electrons to better trap them

For the first time, researchers from UNIGE and MBI in Berlin have placed an electron in a dual state - neither freed nor bound:

Atoms are composed of electrons moving around a central nucleus they are bound to. The electrons can also be torn away, overcoming the confining force of their nucleus, using the powerful electric field of a laser.…

From insulator to conductor in a flash

MBI scientists gain deep insights into the materials of the future using ultrashort laser pulses:

Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical…

Adlershof Special 49

Smart and networked:

Come together: Cooperations for good //  Grapevine and grey power: Tenants in the Coworking Space IM.PULS //  The bridge builders: Innovation and research at IRIS //

Scientists from Max Born Institute report an ultrafast x-ray experiment

Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals:

Ferroelectric crystals display a macroscopic electric polarization, a superposition of many dipoles at the atomic scale which originate from spatially separated electrons and atomic nuclei. The macroscopic…

Clear priorities

Editorial by Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Spain:

The irruption of the science park concept meant a revolution in the way spaces to host businesses and, in general, economic activity were conceived. The rise of the knowledge economy engendered new technologies, new…

Cooperation projects are part of the Campus Adlershof DNA

Managers of the operating company WISTA consider themselves as architects of proximity:

Initiating, forging, and supporting cooperation projects is an essential ingredient of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH’s contribution to the Adlershof recipe for success. “We are not only a site operator and property manager,…

Well networked for the future

Short paths are a good basis for cooperation projects – that are also funded by a fair number of initiatives in the Technology Park:

What do researchers work on? What innovations do companies need? Answers to these simple, yet essential questions can be found at “Economy Meets Science”, an annual event organised by Humboldt University of Berlin…

Grapevine and grey power

Tenants in Coworking Space IM.PULS benefit from each other:

“Sitting close together promotes contact,” claims Tobias Kirschnick, Head of the Innovation and Setup Centre and responsible for the coworking space IM.PULS inaugurated in November in Adlershof. This meets with José…

The bridge builders

IRIS is intended to force ahead the innovativeness and international visibility of research in Germany:

Whenever Jürgen Rabe starts expounding on the number of disciplines converging on this institute, it puts the listener in dizziness. IRIS is intended to force ahead the innovativeness and international visibility of…

State of the art and trends of UV light-emitting diodes – ICULTA-2018

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and UVphotonics NT at international conference in Berlin:

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut presents its UV LED developments in talks and at the accompanying exhibition at ICULTA-2018 – from chips to ready-to-use modules. The institute co-organizes the international conference hosted…

A² Accelerator – The best of two worlds

Startups have new ideas, established firms experience. A2 Adlershof Accelerator brings them together. This programme offers them a unique platform for the joint development of pilot projects. This year, A² will be…

Stronger together

In Berlin Adlershof, the paths between research and industry are often very short:

InSystems Automation GmbH is growing in line with the demand for autonavigating transport robots, and today over sixty experts are working for this specialised machine builder. In December 2017, the company relocated…

X-ray snapshots of reacting acids and bases

Erik T. J. Nibbering receives an ERC Advanced Grant for groundbreaking basic research:

Dr. Erik T. J. Nibbering of the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin receives an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Goal with this prestigious…

Berlin Adlershof: Facts and Figures

The Berlin Adlershof Science City is one of the most successful high-technology sites in Germany and Berlin’s largest media site. It is home to 1,072 companies and scientific institutions (Dec 2017) on an area of…