LUM digitally trains the global sales force for the future in 2021:
From January 21st to 22nd, the LUM GmbH International Sales Meeting will take place for the 22nd time in a row. In times of pandemics, as a virtual event for the first time. The sales experts at LUM GmbH and the LUM…
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) at the virtual “European Microwave Week” (EuMW):
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH) will present its research results targeting energy-efficient amplifier concepts as well as terahertz (THz) components and systems for broadband communication and imaging at the…
The biochemist Christian Hackenberger, who seeks and destroys cancer cells, and the chemist Chayanika Das, who fights magnesium corrosion:
Vivid, detailed, and laid-back is how Christian Hackeberger presented himself at the Falling Walls Conference, which was held digitally for the first time. He talks of sniffer dogs and bombs, of super glue and plastic…
Adlershof start-up develops novel printing process that can produce smooth surfaces at high speed:
It looks like science fiction but in fact could be the future of 3D printing: A blue slice of light wanders through a liquid, while light projections emerge through the window of a glass vessel. Resembling the…
FBH, UVphotonics, TU Berlin and Osram Opto Semiconductors develop suitable irradiation systems:
In the joint CORSA project, SARS-CoV-2 and further respiratory viruses on surfaces and skin are to be inactivated by using UVC light. The project team is developing special UVC LEDs for this purpose and is…
Exchange of experience and mutual support are intended to further improve the applications and performance of the analysis and measurement technology:
The head of the European Center for Dispersion Technologies (EZD), Selb, Dr.-Ing. Felipe Wolff-Fabris, and the managing director of LUM GmbH, Berlin, Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Lerche, signed an in-depth cooperation…
HZB team was able to improve the charge carrier transport and the stability of the solar cells:
An HZB team has published a report in the journal Science on the development of its current world record of 29.15% efficiency for a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon. The tandem cell provided stable…
Fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films will enable active cooling in integrated electronic components:
Scientists at Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) conduct fundamental materials science research on ferroelectric thin films. In the future, these materials will be used to build miniaturized refrigerators in…
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and two Max Planck institutes want to achieve leaps of innovation in hydrogen research:
Hydrogen as a sustainable fuel source will play a key role in our energy system for the future. Hydrogen-based chemical energy media are needed as long-term storage repositories in the energy system and are crucial…
The Optical Society (OSA) chooses publication with IKZ participation as “Spotlight” of the month:
In the publication “Optical spin polarization in ruby enhances slow light by high-contrast transient spectral hole-burning” Hans Riesen, Aleksander K. Rebane, Wayne Hutchison and Steffen Ganschow describe important…
HZB research team studies new compositions of perovskite materials for solar energy:
Scientists at HZB have printed and explored different compositions of caesium based halide perovskites (CsPb(BrxI1−x)3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1)). In a temperature range between room temperature and 300 Celsius, they observe…
The material could allow data processing with significantly less energy input:
Germanium Telluride is an interesting candidate material for spintronic devices. In a comprehensive study at BESSY II, a Helmholtz-RSF Joint Research Group has now revealed how the spin texture switches by…
HZB team discovered density fluctuations in amorphous silicon:
For the first time, a team at HZB has identified the atomic substructure of amorphous silicon with a resolution of 0.8 nanometres using X-ray and neutron scattering at BESSY II and BER II. Such a-Si:H thin films have…
IKZ is member of the new research group “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”:
Dr. Steffen Ganschow of the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) is member of the new DFG research group FOR5044 “Periodic Low-Dimensional Defect Structures in Polar Oxides”. The research group will investigate…
The Berlin-South Employment Agency awarded the Certificate for Young Talent Promotion 2019/2020 to the HZB:
The Berlin-South Employment Agency has awarded the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for an innovative procedure to select applicants for apprenticeships and dual studies not only on the basis of their grades, but also to…
New experimental methods will be developed and the analysis of data from experiments performed at BESSY II will be significantly improved:
Every year, nearly 3000 user groups from around the world visit the electron storage ring BESSY II to study an immense variety of materials using the brilliant X-ray light the ring generates. “In the research of…
On September 11, 2020, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) signed a cooperation agreement to advance joint research on energy and quantum materials. As part of the…
The physicist studied ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in iron complexes:
Dr. Raphael Jay has received this year's Carl-Ramsauer-Prize of the German Physical Society of Berlin (DPGzB). The prize honours outstanding dissertations in physics and related fields and will be awarded during a…
RAPTOR technology enables cost-effective 3D printing:
TIWARI Scientific Instruments is a hardware-oriented company, currently incubated by the European Space Agency (ESA), and aiming at leveraging their strong connection to the Space industry for accelerating…
DESY and Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung sign cooperation agreement:
Cooperation between DESY and the Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) will literally become closer in the future. The Berlin Leibniz-Institute will establish a branch office on the Hamburg campus. Last week,…