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The proximity of business and science in Adlershof inspires innovation in computer technology:

The staff at Harting IT Software Development GmbH & Co. KG in Adlershof, now numbering six employees, has been tinkering with new information technology solutions for more than a year. “Our task is to develop machines…

In search of the sentinel

Adlershof’s IT solutions for medical technology that modern diagnostics cannot do without:

Conworx Technology GmbH has been working on quality assurance in medicine since its founding in 1999. About 20 employees are working to optimise data management for clinics and laboratories at their headquarters in…

Smart travelling

Adlershof is providing IT solutions in future mobility:

Travelling today using a long-distance bus, chances are that you will use technology from the Adlershof-based IT company lesswire. Bus passengers can surf the internet using their laptop or smartphone without…

Minister Gabriel visits the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

“BAM sets high standards for Germany and the global markets”:

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, visited the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin today. BAM is a subordinate senior scientific and technical authority…

BESSY: Insight into inner magnetic layers

Scientists’ research results can help in designing spintronic components:

Research teams from Paris, Madrid and Berlin have observed for the first time how magnetic domains mutually influence one another at interfaces of spintronic components. Using measurements taken at BESSY II, they…

Details of a crucial reaction

Physicists uncover oxidation process of carbon monoxide on a ruthenium surface:

An international team has observed the elusive intermediates that form when carbon monoxide is oxidized on a hot ruthenium metal surface. They used ultrafast X-ray and optical laser pulses at the SLAC National…

Dance of the nanovortices

HZB researchers make trajectories of small magnetic entities visible:

The trajectories of small magnetic entities referred to as skyrmions have been captured and recorded with the help of X-ray holography. Researchers gained new insight from the analysis of this motion: these…

Nonlinear resonance disaster in the light of ultrashort pulses

MBI scientists investigate different material responses in optical processes:

Ultrashort light pulses from modern lasers enable temporal resolution of even the fastest processes in molecules or solid-state materials. For example, chemical reactions can, in principle, be traced down to the…

New solutions for data center and smart grid security

Rohde & Schwarz SIT presents new performance classes of layer 2 network encryptors at the CeBIT / New encryption solution closes market gap:

The SITLine ETH4G provides network administrators with more flexibility concerning the planning of their infrastructures. For the first time worldwide, a single device simultaneously encrypts four lines in existing…

Adlershof Know How for ISS

eagleyard Photonics is going to space with 1064 nm:

Eagleyard Photonics, a leading supplier of high-power laser diodes reaches out for ISS with its 1064 DFB laser diodes. Fiber coupled laser diodes manufactured by eagleyard photonics recently landed successfully on…

Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered

HZB Researchers hope that their properties might be altered to permit nanodiamonds to be used as catalysts for generating hydrogen from sunlight:

Nanodiamonds are tiny crystals only a few nanometres in size. While they possess the crystalline structure of diamonds, their properties diverge considerably from those of their big brothers, because their surfaces…

The wolf – a winner of the breakdown of the Soviet Union

HU Biogeography Group analyses trends of mammal populations after the end of the Eastern Bloc:

The breakdown of the Soviet Union constitutes one of the most dramatic institutional and socioeconomic shocks of the 20th century. A new paper, led by Eugenia Bragina and just published in Conservation Biology,…

The path to artificial photosynthesis

HZB researchers describe efficient manganese catalyst capable of converting light to chemical energy:

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy (HZB) in collaboration with the School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science at Monash University, Australia, have…

HZB team dancing BESSY-VSR

Funny videos explain cavities in the electron storage ring:

Paul Goslawski from Godehard Wüstefeld's team was the initiator of this project: Why not demonstrate in vivid form, what the future project BESSY-VSR is all about? With novel cavities to be introduced in…

Optical companies from Adlershof will present their broadly expanded range of services at Photonics West 2015, the world’s largest industry trade show

Photonics cluster tripled its laboratory and production areas last year:

The Technology Park Berlin Adlershof – one of the most successful sites for photonics, optics, and microsystems technology in Germany – will be exhibiting in Hall D North, Booth 4601 / 45 at Photonics West 2015 in San…

Maximum efficiency, minimum materials and complexity

Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well:

The cell consists of many active layers, which taken together are less than one micron thick. The new hybrid solar cell is constructed of two extremely thin layers of amorphous silicon as well as an organic layer.…

New light shed on electron spin flips

HZB researchers enable calculation of EPR experiments:

Researchers from Berlin Joint EPR Lab at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and University of Washington (UW) derived a new set of equations that allows for calculating electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) transition…

Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors

Scientists gain exciting insights into the properties of ceramic materials at BESSY's Beamline:

Charge order has been established in another class of cuprate superconductors, highlighting the importance of the phenomenon as a general property of these high-Tc materials. The discovery of superconductivity in…

Watching Single Macromolecules Move in Response to Light

Nature has long inspired scientists with its seemingly unlimited ability to harness solar energy and to utilize it to drive various physiological processes. With the help of man-made molecular photoswitches, we now…

Europe’s Largest Battery Storage Project Becomes Operational in the UK

Adlershof’s Younicos contributes control software for 6MW/10MWh Smarter Network Storage Project:

Europe’s largest battery storage project has been officially opened by Amber Rudd, Minister at Department for Energy and Climate Change at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. S&C Electric Europe, Samsung SDI and Younicos…