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Crafts for adults
This is where the tone is set:
Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage are talking about running shoes? In the corridor in Johannisthal? Ethem Bozkurt doesn't believe his ears when he goes to get a coffee from the kitchen in that Johannisthal corridor. And…
New tools for laser light
Founder form Photonic Tools at the start:
The metal workpieces which sit on the window sill in Björn Wedel's brand new office are not exhibitions pieces for his newly founded company Photonic Tools. Rather, they remind the 47-year-old of his successful past…
Çaǧlayan, my little waterfall
Can names block an international career?:
Friends of mine recently had their third child – a boy named Çaǧlayan. Nice. It means little waterfall. It has a cedilla under the C and a hachek over the G – he’ll have to spell it and explain it a little when he's…
Adlershof Dissertation Prize for Martin Hempel
The three finalists who were competing against one another on 13 February really were the academic elite. All three of them completed their dissertation in Adlershof in the past 18 months. In order to win the…
Prime location
First tenants in the "Air Campus":
Adlershof is gradually becoming more urban. One of the most recent new builds is the Air Campus office building on the corner of Rudower Chaussee and Am Studio. There is still some space for new tenants. Patrick…
Smart plugs
HARTING is working on the future of the factory:
The family enterprise HARTING recently opened a branch in Adlershof – here, developers are working on the future of the factory, Industry 4.0. It will make manufacturing more efficient, more flexible, faster and more…
“Innovation takes courage” – and consulting
Lawyer Harald Keil believes in Adlershof:
“You really had to believe in Adlershof,” lawyer Harald Keil from the law firm Bilk and Keil replies to why he settled down here in 1998. He specialised in IT and media law already as a trainee, a fairly young field…
Software for Health
Adlershof’s arivis AG develops applications for the life science sector:
The whole life sciences sector now heavily relies on effective and secure information processing. But off-the-shelf IT solutions are usually not helpful. Software specialists such as those from arivis AG are thus…
Spanish Sales Success for LUM and excellent customer loyalty program in Israel
The 15th International Sales Meeting took place at the headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof in the end of January. LUM is market leader for innovative analytical instruments for particle characterization and…
News vacuum solutions for the analytical market
Pfeiffer Vacuum set new standards with turbopumps:
Pfeiffer Vacuum, the global leader in vacuum technology, will be participating in the Pittcon trade show in Chicago from March 3 – 6, 2014 and the analytica show in Munich from April 1 – 4, 2014. “We will be…
Revealing secrets of exploding clusters
MBI scientists observe novel ionization mechanisms:
The investigation of cluster explosion dynamics under intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses has so far been limited to large scale facilities likefree-electron lasers. In a recent publication it was shown that the…
Lesswire presents Car2X transceiver module
Wireless module improves safety and efficiency on the roads:
Lesswire, a leading supplier of wireless connectivity solutions for OEMs, appliance manufacturers and system integrators, presents the first wireless module for Car2X applications. The module, called WiBear ITS, makes…
Next generation technology of thin film silicon on glass
Demonstration of a world record value for the open-circuit voltage of 582 mV for c-Si on glass by HZB researchers:
MASDAR PV and HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM Berlin have strengthened their R&D partnership, focusing resources on development of next generation thin film Si technology. After successful cooperation in the development of Masdar…
PicoQuant is partner of the European BabyLux project for premature babies
Nine organizations from Italy, Spain, Germany and Denmark have launched an innovative technique that accurately detects oxygen in the brain:
Nine European partners have started the initiative “BabyLux”, a partially funded project by the European Commission that aims to reduce the risk of brain damage of babies born prematurely. The group of researchers,…
Dr. Martin Hempel receives the Adlershof Dissertation Prize 2013
On February 13, the Adlershof Dissertation Award was granted to Dr. Martin Hempel of the Max-Born-Institute (MBI). In competition with two other nominees and according to the jury's unanimous opinion, he presented…
Light-induced degradation in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells
New insight into microscopic mechanism:
Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) have taken a leap forward towards a deeper understanding of an undesired effect in thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon – one that has puzzled the…
Glaciers and mountains in 3D
DLR special camera flies over Himalayas for first time:
Time and again, Himalayan landslides and flash floods cost the lives of dozens of people in Nepal, sweeping away entire villages and infrastructure like bridges and roads. Until now, the images of this remote region…
Magnetic switch gets closer to application
Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low electric fields. Their results are inspiring for future…
Award Winning Ostendum Lab-on-a-Chip Nanodevices are produced with SCIENION’s sciFLEXARRAYER SX
SCIENION AG today announced that Ostendum R&D B.V., a Dutch company focused on the development and production of fast, highly sensitive, portable, easy-to-use and cost-effective biosensors, is using SCIENION’s…
From a carpet of nanorods to a thin film solar cell absorber within a few seconds
Research teams at the HZB and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this…