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Laser made in Adlershof
Lumics adds new 760nm wavelength and reduces linewidth of its single-mode diode laser modules:
Lumics GmbH - Berlin has further increased its wavelength portfolio of single-mode fiber pigtailed butterfly 14-pin modules with internal temperature control and monitor photodiode. Now Lumics’ added also 760nm to…
Optically switchable organic field effect transistors created
Such molecular devices are considered as key elements in future logic circuits:
An international team of researchers led by Stefan Hecht (Member of IRIS Adlershof) and Paolo Samori from the Université de Strasbourg (France), in collaboration with scientists from Stanford University (USA) and…
Why does DNA prove to be photostable?
MBI scientists get new insights into the photophysics of the DNA base thymine:
DNA stores our genetic code. Solar UV radiation has sufficiently high energy to basically break bonds of the DNA and thus cause DNA damage. Although DNA (e. g. in our skin cells) is exposed to intense UV light …
Learning by eye
Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells:
A biological structure in mammalian eyes has inspired a team headed by Silke Christiansen to design an inorganic counterpart for use in solar cells. With the help of conventional semiconductor processes, they etched…
Stretch and relax!
Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium:
An international team of scientists from Berlin, Freiburg and Fukuoka has provided the first direct experimental insight into the secret quantum life of dichromium. Whereas in its normal state the 12 valence…
Adlershof Special 38
The end of the email!:
Big Data – what‘s next? // Smart travelling // Data for the changing room //
The Place to be
Editorial by Sascha Kellert, chairman of SIBB e.V. and manager of software start-up ezeep:
Berlin is not only a young and hip city, it is also a digital city that attracts drivers of industrial innovation like IT companies, high-skilled people, capital, and firms from all over the world. Over 60,000 people…
Big Data – what‘s next?
The flood of information – an issue at the Research Forum Adlershof:
Growing amounts of data and rapid developments in information technology are confronting Adlershof-based companies with new challenges. Events like the Research Forum Adlershof are bringing companies and researchers…
When your carpet calls you an ambulance
Solutions from Adlershof for home automation and assistance systems:
There is a growing demand for senior-friendly, intergenerational living and with that, a growing interest in home automation and assistance systems. Innovators in Adlershof are working on Ambient Assisted Living…
The end of the email!
IT service provider Atos relies on efficient communication without electronic mail:
There is a flood spilling through offices, sweeping away the firm conviction that a quick email is a suitable tool for swiftly sorting out matters or solving problems. Some companies have already banned emailing after…
Data for the changing room
Valuable tools for fashion retailers and football analysts:
40,000 football games across various leagues take place every weekend. Up to 10,000 videos are recorded at these games each time. The purchase probability at local retailers is only about ten to 15 percent, still five…
A neighborhood for secure data
Three IT companies from Adlershof protect sensitive data transactions:
Only a few metres apart, along the Am Studio road in Adlershof, a trio of independent companies is working on securing data traffic. Rohde & Schwarz SIT, the young consulting team sector red, and the German branch of…
Well connected
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…