Invitation: Reception Final Assembly of HFM
Six years full of hard work with planning and constructing the High-Field Magnet for Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin we are proud to inform you that the final assembly is now complete.
Before further test are going to start and the neutron beamline will be connected, we like to invite you to a reception at the lecture hall at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin Wannsee on Thursday, July 10th at 11 am.
The reception includes short lectures from Dr. Peter Smeibidl (Project Manager HFM), Dr. Mark Bird (NHMFL Tallahassee) and Bernd Tibes (DGI Architects).
After a lunch buffet we provide a guided tour to see the High-Field Magnet and Technikum building and give you the opportunity to talk to the scientist and engineers.
Please get in contact with Stefanie Kodalle by July 8th to register for the reception and indicate if you want to use the shuttle service from Adlershof and return.
Please find attached a detailed programme in the download box.
- BESSY II: Magnetic ‘microflowers’ enhance magnetic fields locallyA flower-shaped structure only a few micrometres in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. The size of the effect can be controlled by varying the geometry and number of 'petals'. This magnetic metamaterial developed by Dr Anna Palau's group at the Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) in collaboration with her partners of the CHIST-ERA MetaMagIC project, has now been studied at BESSY II in collaboration with Dr Sergio Valencia. Such a device can be used to increase the sensitivity of magnetic sensors, to reduce the energy required for creating local magnetic fields, but also, at the PEEM experimental station, to study samples under much higher magnetic fields than currently possible.
- HZB-magazine lichtblick - the new issue is out!In the cover story we introduce Astrid Brandt. She is Head of User Coordination at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. She and her team keep constant track of applications, measurement times and publications of the 1000 guest researchers who come to BESSY II each year.
She has always been fascinated by science. But she has also never let go of her other passion, which is music.
- Nanoislands on silicon with switchable topological texturesNanostructures with specific electromagnetic patterns promise applications in nanoelectronics and future information technologies. However, it is very challenging to control those patterns. Now, a team at HZB examined a specific class of nanoislands on silicon with interesting chiral, swirling polar textures, which can be stabilised and even reversibly switched by an external electric field.