Novel measuring system determines the concentration of nanoparticles – successful technology transfer from PTB to industry:
In Braunschweig and Berlin, time comes from atomic clocks, lengths are measured far into the nano-world, scientists do research on fundamental questions concerning the physical units, and the employees in the…
A team of researchers has produced an aqueous solution with metallic properties for the first time:
Under normal conditions, pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Water only develops metallic properties under extreme pressure, such as exists deep inside of large planets. Now, an international collaboration has…
HZB spin-off QYB Quantum Yield Berlin is launching a measurement instrument for optimising optoelectronic components:
Scientists from the Helmholtz Innovation Lab HySPRINT at HZB spun off the technology company QYB Quantum Yield Berlin GmbH at the beginning of April 2021. The spin-off is launching LuQY Pro, a ready-to-use measurement…
A look back on becoming market leader in time-resolved optical measurements while not forgetting social responsibility:
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Berlin-based PicoQuant, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of high quality photonic components and instrumentation. Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director and…
New insights into the ultrafast response of topological states of matter to femtosecond laser excitation:
A team led by HZB physicist Dr. Jaime Sánchez-Barriga has gained new insights into the ultrafast response of topological states of matter to femtosecond laser excitation. Using time- and spin-resolved methods at BESSY…
Scientists will drive research on the future technology 6G:
In the “6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC)” hub, the partners of the initiative will develop mobile communication systems with open interfaces across all technology frontiers. In addition to the actual…
Research funding is key – Information by the German Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation:
Synchrotron light sources were originally built to study particles. Today, they are even used in the fight against COVID-19. The projects are as diverse as the fields of the synchrotron users, who come from…
Research centers of the Helmholtz Association present upgrade strategy for accelerator-based facilities:
Three research centres in the Helmholtz Association have developed a joint future plan for the research conducted at the scientific light sources they operate in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The upgrades proposed in…
International team of scientists with MBI participation demonstrates new concept for generating XUV radiation:
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for the generation of intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high-harmonic generation (HHG). Its advantage lies in the fact that its…
The researcher studies catalytic processes that enable the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy:
From June 2021, Dr. Renske van der Veen is setting up a new research group at HZB. The chemist is an expert in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy and electron microscopy and studies catalytic processes that enable the…
Research team has, for the first time, directly measured the particle exchange phase of photons:
A research team of the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin together with cooperation partners Max Born Institute (Berlin) and DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems (Berlin) has, for the first…
Research results provide important information for perovskites materials research for solar cells:
The evaluation of X-ray measurements on methylammonium perovskite semiconductors now shows what role hydrogen bonds play in these materials. In addition, the HZB team showed that radiation damage by soft X-rays to…
Team from MBI, HZB and MIT researches skyrmions – small magnetic textures that may become an ingredient in novel memory and logic devices:
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are continuously explored. Small magnetic textures, so-called skyrmions, may…
PTB team investigates causes for the capacity decrease:
High-energy density batteries play a crucial role for renewables, both as stationary storage system as well as for electric automotive applications. Every battery suffers under degradation effects leading to capacity…
Why portable Raman systems are now used in agriculture – the RaMBo measuring system from the Laser Sensors Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut in Adlershof:
Last November, it was finally done. The RaMBo measuring system was deployed for the first time on a field in Potsdam-Marquardt. Its goal: to determine the nutrient content of the soil. Phosphorus and nitrogen, in…
Review of the 2021 edition of the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications:
For the second time, ICULTA – the ‘International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications’ – presented a forum for the UV LED community to exchange ideas and results on cutting-edge topics. The program of last…
MYSTIIC offers higher precision and more options for scanning surfaces and investigating bulk samples in transmission:
A new X-ray microscope has started operation at the Energy Materials in situ Lab (EMIL). It is a scanning transmission X-ray microscope designed to examine both sample surfaces and bulk sample. With the soft X-ray…
Research at the PTB X-ray beamline of the HZB BESSY II synchrotron lays the foundations for new insights into energy materials:
Battery electrodes, storage devices for gases, and some catalyst materials have tiny functional pores that can accommodate atoms, ions, and molecules. How these guest atoms are absorbed into or released from the pores…
With Dr. Lutz Pfeifer as the new Head of Research Spectroscopy, and Norman Bensmann as the new Head of Laser Development, the company is realigning itself:
Managing Director Christian Scholz: “We want to spread the growing scope and requirements of the departments over several shoulders. In recent years, we have grown steadily in both areas. In order to do justice to the…
Researchers from HU, MBI, and the University of Central Florida (USA) have identified criteria for robust transport:
Originally discovered in condensed matter systems, topological insulators are two-dimensional materials that support scattering-free (uni-directional) transport along their edges, even in the presence of defects and…