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Accelerating write/erase cycles in all-optical magnetization switching
Scientists from MBI and FU Berlin successfully reduced the required time between switching events of magnetic bits to a record value of seven picoseconds:
Magnetic bits for data storage can be written with ultrafast laser pulses, in contrast to the well-established path of using magnetic fields administered via a write head. Researchers at Max Born Institute and Freie…
The sound of Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover listens in the thin Martian atmosphere:
Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscape there and if it…
Persistent swinging of electrons between atomic sites in crystals
Researchers at MBI have elucidated in space and time concerted electron and nuclear motions in crystalline solids:
Phonons are quantum excitations which correspond to vibrations of the regular atomic array of a crystal. This crystal lattice consists of a large number of unit cells with an identical atomic arrangement. In the…
FBH at Laser World of Photonics – from chips to prototypes
FBH presents its progress, exhibits live demonstrators and showcases new and further developments of its diode lasers and UV LEDs:
The Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) will present its full range of capabilities at Laser World of Photonics in Munich from April 26-29, 2022 – from design and chips to…
HPS Home Power Solutions partners with property developer Hausdorf
Hausdorf plans to build twelve single-family homes powered by picea, HPS’s year-round electricity storage system:
HPS Home Power Solutions (HPS), provider of picea, the world’s first year-round electricity storage system based on green hydrogen, today announces its collaboration with Hausdorf, a property developer in the Munich…
Ukraine: how can the scientific community help scholars at risk?
IRIS Adlershof member Michael J. Bojdys explains cooperative measures to support refugees:
In the first 19 days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, 6,300 Ukrainian scientists moved abroad. Michael J. Bojdys, member of IRIS Adlershof, has been a member of the Advisory Board of the…
Insights into photoacid electronic structure
Using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy, the electronic charge distributions of photoacids could be studied at BESSY II:
Photoacids are molecules that release a proton upon electronic excitation, thus enhancing the acidity of a liquid. Pioneering work by Theodor Förster has shown the direct relationship between the wavelength position…
New magnetic splitting effect detected at BESSY II
Research group observes the formation of Fermi arcs due to magnetic splitting in an antiferromagnet:
An international cooperation has analysed samples of NdBi crystals which display interesting magnetic properties. In their experiments including measurements at BESSY II they could find evidence for so called Fermi…
Attosecond pulses: 100 times more
High power laser system developed at MBI enables the generation of attosecond pulses with 100 kHz repetition rate:
Attosecond laser pulses in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) are a unique tool enabling the observation and control of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules, and solids. Most attosecond laser sources operate at a pulse…
More than 40 percent less emissions through light electric vehicles
DLR study investigates the potential of light electric vehicles (LEVs) for more climate-friendly mobility:
Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) have great potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector and thus contribute to climate protection. Half of the kilometres currently driven by car…
Kathrin Goldammer honoured as one of 15 Electric Women
RLI Managing Director is one of the world's most remarkable women working to electrify mobility:
For the fourth time, the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) acknowledges the world’s most remarkable women in mobility with a dedicated publication, this year honoring them as Electric Women. The 2022…
RLI develops energy transition dashboard for WWF Germany
Digital tool shows important data and facts about the energy transition and makes contexts clearer:
Influence of CO2 emissions on the climate, development of droughts in Germany or the share of renewable energies in the electricity mix – the Reiner Lemoine Institute (RLI) has developed the new energy transition…
Unravelling tautomeric mixtures
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II provides detailed information on properties and biological function:
A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unravelling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be deduced, but the…
From Lab to Fab: World Record Solar Cell Goes from Lab to Industry
Q CELLS and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin achieve record efficiency of 28.7% for 2-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell:
Q CELLS and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin achieve a new world record efficiency for a 2-terminal tandem solar cell combining a mass-production ready silicon bottom cell based on Q.ANTUM technology and a top-cell based on…
New normality, new mindset
Essay by Christoph Burger, psychologist, career advisor and coach for personal development in and around Stuttgart:
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in 2020, we have been longing for a return to normality—the everyday life we are used to, partying together, going on holiday without a worry in the world. But how much of…
The work psychologist
Franziska Kößler investigates employment and health:
Infection or job loss, what is more frightening? Do I feel inspired and enriched by cultural diversity? These are but some of the issues that Franziska Kößler deals with in her everyday academic life. What emotions do…
New world of work at BRAIN BOX BERLIN
The concept of the new office building in Adlershof addresses changing work structures with more spaces for communication and teamwork:
Mega trends like the digital transformation and globalisation are changing work processes and are impacting how, when, and where we will work in the future. More radical than anything else, the coronavirus pandemic…
Video patient education before the op
The start-up medudoc is developing a platform for customisable explainer videos that visualise the most common operations in short sequences:
The medudoc Group creates explainer videos that provide patients with well-founded information about the process and possible risks of medical procedures. The team is growing and on course for more…
It felt like point zero
Production company “Filmgarnitur” realises creative and very personal projects:
Sven Michael Otto and Christoph Rohrscheidt founded the production company “Filmgarnitur” just before the pandemic. Looking back, it was a great chance for creative and very personal projects. Sometimes life just…
Hidden joy, sorrow halved
Psychologists from Adlershof conduct basic research on emotion perception and wearing face masks:
A wrinkled brow, a frowning mouth, a deepening of the tiny wrinkles around the eyes: More than 40 muscles are involved in forming our facial expressions. Emotion researchers summarise the muscles that are responsible…