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Best electrolyser/photovoltaics combinations demonstrated in test fields
One of the most promising ways to increase the availability of solar energy is to convert excess production into hydrogen. The PECSYS project has investigated the best possible material and technology combinations to facilitate such an operation.
Seminar für Architekt*innen Bauwerkintegrierte Photovoltaik: Architektur –...
Im September veranstaltet die Beratungsstelle für BIPV „BAIP“ zusammen mit der Architektenkammer Niedersachsen ein Seminar für Architekt*innen zum Thema Bauwerkintegrierte Photovoltaik: Architektur-Gestaltung und Ausführung
Optimize opto-electronic devices with new compact measuring system
In order to develop efficient opto-electronic devices such as solar cells or LEDs, it is crucial to improve the quality of the semiconductors. To achieve this, it is necessary to determine the luminescence yield of the semiconductor material. For this ...
Corona research: Consortium of Berlin research and industry seeks active...
The Berlin biotech company Molox GmbH and a team at HZB have initiated a consortium of regional research groups and BASF. They want to identify a starting point for the development of a potential active substance against the new coronavirus.
20 percent more patients were treated with proton therapy in 2019
For more than 20 years, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have jointly offered the irradiation of eye tumors with protons. In 2019, more patients were treated in Berlin-Wannsee than ever before. 276 patients - 20 ...
Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Award and Innovation Award for Research in Synchrotron...
This year, the circle of friends of the HZB awarded the Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize to two young scientists for their outstanding PhD theses. The European Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Award went to a team of physicists from DESY and PSI.
Reaching climate targets with building integrated Photovoltaics
There is now a wide range of façade elements that generate photovoltaic electricity. So far, however, such building-integrated PV modules have rarely been installed. The Advisory Centre for Building Integrated PV (BAIP) wants to change this.
HZB Researcher on the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society
In September 2019, Prof. Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu was elected into the Board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS). The MRS is one of the largest scientific associations and has almost 14000 members from various areas of the natural sciences ...
In Memoriam: Charles S. Fadley, Longstanding Collaboration Partner, Power User,...
Charles ‘Chuck’ S. Fadley, a pioneer in photoemission spectroscopy, passed away on the 1st of August 2019. He remained an active and avid researcher until a few weeks before his death at age 77. We will miss him as a brilliant colleague and friend.
Stellungnahme des FVEE: Ausbaudeckel für Photovoltaik behindert erfolgreiche...
Der im EEG von 2012 festgelegte Stopp der Einspeisevergütung durch den 52 GW-Deckel läuft dem erforderlichen massiven Ausbau der Photovoltaik diametral entgegen. Der Forschungsverbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE) empfiehlt eine Änderung dieser Praxis.
Physicists develop "time machine" for materials research
Researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität München will develop fast electronics for data acquisition at BESSY II. This will enable researchers to evaluate the data more extensively - ...
Steve Albrecht wins the 2019 Karl Scheel Prize
This year's Karl Scheel Prize from the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin honours Steve Albrecht of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie for his work in the field of highly efficient tandem solar cell absorbers made of metal-halide ...
Support for the sheep at Campus Wannsee
Since mid-May, sheep have been grazing on the Wannsee campus and contributing to landscape conservation. They have now been reinforced: Since 14 June 19, five sheep and five goats have been supporting the existing herd in its "work". Since the goats prefer to ...
1300 visitors at the HZB location Wannsee at the Long Night of Science
Despite high summer temperatures, the HZB was able to welcome more than 1300 people to the Long Night of Science at Wannsee. This is about 15 percent more than the last time (2017) when the location took part. Visitor magnets were the guided tours through ...
Long Night of Science at HZB's Wannsee site: Solar cells, environmentally...
The sun provides an enormous amount of energy. But can we really use it to cover our energy needs? Can solar energy actually be stored? And how powerful will innovative batteries be? During the Long Night of Science on 15 June 2019 (17:00 - 24:00) at the ...
Photovoltaics are growing faster than expected in the global energy system
Not only the electricity sector, but also transport, heating, industry and chemical processes will in future be supplied primarily by solar power, because it is already the cheapest form of electricity generation in large parts of the world.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has new scientific management
As of 1 June 2019, Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech and Prof. Dr. Jan Lüning are the new scientific directors of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie. Bernd Rech is responsible for the "Energy and Information” department and Jan Lüning heads the ...
Adolfo Velez Saiz is a professor of accelerator physics at TU Dortmund
Technische Universität Dortmund and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have jointly appointed Prof. Adolfo Velez Saiz as a professor of accelerator physics. He heads the Cavity Development workgroup at the HZB institute SRF – Science and Technology. With this ...
Energy for Antarctica: solar hydrogen as an alternative to crude oil?
Solar hydrogen could be produced from sunlight in summer as an alternative. Hydrogen has a high energy density, is easy to store, and can be used as fuel when needed later without polluting the environment. Matthias May (HZB) and Kira Rehfeld (Heidelberg ...
Hörtipp: Die wissenschaftlichen Geschäftsführer im Interview des rbb-Inforadios
"Physik made in Berlin": Mitten in Berlin betreibt das HZB einen Forschungsreaktor und einen Teilchenbeschleuniger. Thomas Prinzler vom rbb-Inforadio spricht mit den wissenschaftlichen Geschäftsführern Prof. Bernd Rech und Prof. Jan Lüning darüber, was ...
Posterprize for HZB postdoc Prince Saurabh Bassi
Dr. Prince Saurabh Bassi was awarded the poster prize at “International Bunsen-Discussion-Meeting on Fundamentals and Applications of (Photo) Electrolysis for Efficient Energy Storage”. He is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Sebastian Fiechter in the ...
Sheep graze the Lise-Meitner-Campus in Wannsee
On 15 May 2019 they arrived at the campus in Berlin-Wannsee: Seven female sheep and two lambs of the domestic sheep breed "Skudde". By autumn, they will graze the semi-natural campus and thus contribute to biodiversity. By doing without extensive mowing, ...
Obituary for Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lewerenz
We are mourning the death of Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lewerenz, who passed away on 24 April 2019 at the age of 70. From 1981 to 2014 he worked as a scientist and as department head in the field of renewable energies at our research institute. He was a ...
LAUNCH OF EPKI: European Perovskite Initiative for the development of...
With the HySPRINT project and the recruitment of highly talented young scientists, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has built up a considerable research capacity in the field of perovskite materials in recent years and is participating in the European Perovskite ...
Bernd Stannowski is Professor at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Prof. Dr. Bernd Stannowski has received and accepted a call for a joint S-Professorship for "Photovoltaics" at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. The physicist heads the working group "Silicon Photovoltaics" at the Competence Center Thin Film ...
Register now for the international summer school Quantsol
It is already the twelfth time that the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) will be held from 1 to 8th September 2019 in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. The school is organized by the ...
Godehard Wüstefeld receives the Horst Klein Research Prize
The physicist Dr. Godehard Wüstefeld was awarded the Horst Klein Research Prize at the annual conference of the German Physical Society. The award recognizes his outstanding scientific achievements in accelerator physics in the development of BESSY II and ...
Recipe book "Sciencefood" available for download
In the current HZB newspaper "lichtblick" we already advertised our new Sciencefood cookbook. On 60 pages we have published the recipes of our colleagues from all over the world. Whether Pierogi, Quesadillas, Crêpes or Tiramisu: In the recipe book, ...
Marcel Risch to form research group at the HZB with an ERC Starting Grant
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will be further strengthened in its research on solar fuels. Dr. Marcel Risch, who recently obtained an ERC Starting Grants, is moving from Georg August Universität, Göttingen to the HZB. Starting in March 2019, the ...
Alexander Petsch awarded the Young Investigators Prize of the German...
Alexander Petsch from the HZB Department Methods and Characterization of Transport Phenomena in Energy Materials was awarded the Young Scientist Prize 2018 of the German Thermoelectrics Society e.V. (DTG) for his outstanding Bachelor thesis.
Veranstaltungstipp: Theaterstück Kernfragen über Lise Meitner am 13.11.2018
Am 13. November 2018 wird an der Freien Universität ein Theaterstück zu Lise Meitner uraufgeführt, das durch das PORTRAITTHEATER aus Wien realisiert wird. Das Stück "KERNFRAGEN" basiert auf dokumentarischem Material, unter anderem dem umfangreichen ...
Andrea Denker is Professor of "Accelerator Physics for Medicine"
The Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have appointed Prof. Dr. Andrea Denker to the joint professorship "Accelerator Physics for Medicine" as of October 1, 2018. Since 2006, Andrea Denker is head of the department ...
Am 15. Oktober startet die Ringvorlesung der Freien Universität Berlin– Zum...
Lise Meitner ist eine der bedeutendsten Wissenschaftlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Freie Universität Berlin würdigt im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung die Leistungen Lise Meitners und arbeitet deren Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft und Kultur auf. Die ...
Collaboration between HZB and the University of Freiburg
Through a Joint Research Group entitled "Simulation of Energy Materials" Prof. Joachim Dzubiella of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg will be able to continue his collaboration with the HZB. The theoretical physicist headed the "Theory and Simulation" ...
Scientific delegation from China visited the HZB
On 28 September 2018, a 25-member delegation from China gathered information about materials research at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. Representatives from various research institutes, universities and industrial companies visited the Lise-Meitner Campus in ...
Atoosa Meseck is a professor of accelerator physics at the University of Mainz
On 1 September 2018, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz appointed Atoosa Meseck to the joint professorship "Accelerator physics – collective effects and nonlinear beam dynamics”. Prof. Dr. Atoosa Meseck is researching at HZB into novel concepts ...
Spectacular transport: Undulator moved to the electron storage ring BESSY II
A worldwide unique undulator developed at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) was installed in the storage ring BESSY II on September 20, 2018. It supplies the "Energy Materials In-Situ Lab EMIL" with the hard X-ray light from BESSY II. The transport of the ...
Invitation to the final presentations of HZB Summer Students on 30th August
The summer students worked on their own research projects for eight weeks. August 30th is their last day at HZB. We cordially invite you to the final presenation event at Campus Wannsee. Three selected students will give a lecture on their research projects. ...
Shaking hands and experimenting with the Federal Research Minister
Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek visited the tent of the school laboratories in the Helmholtz Association at the German government's Open Day this weekend. Employees of the Alfred Wegener Institute, DESY and HZB experimented with the visitors at the ...
2.8 Mio Euro Funding for preparing perovskite solar cells for high volume...
HZB participates in a new consortium for Perovskite solar technology that is led by Oxford PV Germany GmbH. The consortium is funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Energy with 2.8 Million Euros and aims to further demonstrate the manufacturability of ...
Summer in the lab - and in the HZB science blog
They come from Egypt, China, Mexico or Russia and study science or technology in Bachelor's or Master's degrees. For eight weeks our summer students participate in research in an HZB team. But are they doing exactly? They are currently blogging about their ...
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Antonio Abate
HZB scientist Dr. Antonio Abate has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research project on perovskite solar cells. The ERC Starting Grant supports outstanding researchers in an early phase of their scientific careers with up to 1.5 million euros over ...
GRECO kick-off in Madrid: advancing photovoltaics through “open science”
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is one of ten international partners in the GRECO pilot project funded under the European Union framework programme Horizon 2020. They intend to jointly test OpenScience approaches for exchanging knowledge and research data ...
HZB expert contributes to Leibniz platform GraFOx
The platform "GraFOx" of the Leibniz Association bundles the activities and competences of Berlin research institutes and universities in the field of oxide research for electronic applications. Now Prof. Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu has been involved as an ...
Summer in the laboratory: 21 summer students start their research project at...
Young people from all over the world have applied to the Helmholtz Centre to take part in the annual summer programme: eight weeks of research in an HZB team, well supervised, taking their first steps in their own scientific work. Now 21 students from eleven ...
Helmholtz International Fellow Award for Nils Mårtensson
The Helmholtz Association has presented the Swedish physicist Nils Mårtensson with a Helmholtz International Fellow Award. The synchrotron expert of the University of Uppsala, who heads the nobel comitee for physics, cooperates closely with the ...
Kostenloser Download: HZB-Forschung in Spektrum Kompakt
Noch bis zum 9. Juli steht das Spektrum Kompakt "Energiewende", herausgegeben vom Spektrum-Verlag, zum kostenlosen Download zur Verfügung. Darin enthalten ist eine 13-seitige Sonderveröffentlichung des HZB, aufgeteilt in drei Beiträge. Nach Ablauf des ...
Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin receives "audit berufundfamilie" certificate
On 27 June 2018 in Berlin, the HZB was awarded the "audit berufundfamilie" certificate for its strategically designed family and life-phase conscious personnel policy. The certificate was presented to Anja Seehrich, the person responsible for ...
E-MRS: Prizes for two PhD students at HZB
At the spring meeting of the European Materials Research Society from 18-22 June 2018 in Strasbourg, Hannes Hempel received the prize for the best talk and Sara Niedenzu was awarded for her poster. Both are PhD students at the MatSEC graduate school at HZB. ...
HZB Newsletter with monthly highlights and info on events
You can now register to receive the monthly HZB Newsletter automatically by email. It always contains two or three science features from research activities, information on personnel matters, and video and reading tips such as links to profiles and news ...
Day of the Little Researchers: 150 daycare children experiment at the HZB
Why is the light white? And the sky blue? Children ask many questions and want to try things out. For this purpose, 150 pre-school children had many opportunities at the "Day of the Little Researchers" in the HZB school lab. They used self-made spectroscopes ...
Helmholtz Association supports ATHENA with 29.99 mio. euro grant
ATHENA ("Accelerator Technology HElmholtz iNfrAstructure”) is a new research and development platform focusing on accelerator technologies and drawing on the resources of all six Helmholtz accelerator institutions (DESY, Jülich Research Centre, ...
HZB experts present cooperation opportunities at Intersolar Europe in Munich
The international exhibition "Intersolar” brings photovoltaic research and the solar industry together. It is a perfect opportunity for researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin to present thin-film photovoltaic technologies and projects, including for ...
Record number of visitors to the Long Night of Sciences at HZB in Adlershof
4,700 visitors came to see the electron accelerator BESSY II and the energy laboratories and experimental stations dedicated to researching solar energy. That makes nearly 20 percent more interested visitors to HZB’s Adlershof campus than last time.
The pioneer of organic semiconductor electronics will be a guest speaker at...
On 14 June, Prof. Sir Richard Friend will be giving a talk in the auditorium of BESSY II on the physics that made the breakthroughs in organic electronics possible. He will speak about the "Management of the Coulomb interaction in organic LEDs and solar ...
Hereinspaziert: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin öffnet zur Langen Nacht der...
Solarzellen, die hocheffizient, sehr preiswert und lange haltbar sind. Wasserstoff, der mit Sonnenenergie gewonnen wird und Autos antreibt. Computer, die mit geringstem Energieverbrauch riesige Datenmengen verarbeiten: Die Forscherinnen und Forscher des ...
Thorsten Kamps is Professor of Accelerator Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu...
On 24 May 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HUB) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) jointly appointed Thorsten Kamps to the Professorship of "Accelerator physics – Generation and Characterisation of High Brightness Electron Beams”. Kamps heads ...
"Tandemtechnologie" - Wie die Produktion von Solarzellen nach Europa...
Der Direktor des PVcomB am HZB im pv-magazine Interview "Das Potenzial der Photovoltaik ist nicht mal annähernd ausgereizt", sagt Rutger Schlatmann im Interview. So liege der Wirkungsgrade bei kommerziellen Modulen aktuell bei zirka 20 Prozent. Mit ...
Internationaler Workshop zu CIGS-Dünnschicht-Solarmodulen am 18. Juni 2018 in...
Dünnschicht-Solarmodule mit einem Halbleiter aus Kupfer, Indium, Gallium und Selen (CIGS) machen derzeit große Fortschritte bei der kommerziellen Fertigung. Welche Verbesserungen die Industrie in den letzten Jahren erzielt hat, wo die ...
Registration for Summer School Quantsol is now open!
It is already the eleventh time that the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) will be held from 2. to 9. September 2018 in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. The school is organized by ...
"Es war voll super!" - Girls Day & Zukunftstag am HZB
Die Mädchen und Jungen zum Zukunftstag am HZB waren einstimmig begeistert - "Es war voll super!". Genau das Feedback gaben die Schülerinnen und Schüler gestern an die Betreuerinnen und Betreuer weiter. Insgesamt haben über 90 Mädchen und Jungen an den ...
A high ranked Chinese delegation led by Mr. Yin, Vice Mayor of Beijing, visited...
On 11 April 2018, the Vice Mayor of Beijing, the Minister Counsellor and the Secretary-General of the Chinese Embassy in Germany paid a visit to Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The delegation came to learn more about the research topics, infrastructures and ...
HZB-Schülerlabor: Jetzt Termine für das 1. Schulhalbjahr 2018/2019 buchen
Die Schülerlabore des HZB in Wannsee und Adlershof sind sehr beliebt. Bis zu 3000 Schülerinnen und Schüler experimentieren pro Jahr zu Themen wie Magnetismus und Supraleitung, Solarenergieforschung und Licht und Farben in der forschungsnahen Umgebung des HZB. ...
New solar solutions for sustainable buildings and cities
At the Interdisciplinary conference on "INNOVATION IN SOLAR BUILDING SKINS & ENERGY EFFICIENCY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CITIES”, 19th to 20th march in Berlin, experts from the building sector, politics, finance and photovoltaics have discussed the ...
LEAPS join forces with the European Commission to strengthen Europe’s leading...
"A world where European science is a catalyst for solving global challenges, a key driver for competitiveness and a compelling force for closer integration and peace through scientific collaboration.” This is the vision of LEAPS, League of European ...
HZB has once again been recertified as a family-friendly employer
Since 2011, HZB has held the "Career and Family” certificate of the non-profit Hertie Foundation. Every three years, HZB’s schemes for balancing work and family/life have to be put under review. In March 2018, independent reviewers confirmed that ...
HZB scientist got the dissertation prize at the spring conference of the...
Dr. Nele Thielemann-Kühn was awarded the dissertation prize of the magnetism research group at the spring conference of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German physical society/DPG) in Berlin. The prize is awarded for outstanding research in the field ...
Register now: Smart City - Interdisciplinary conference on solar energy and...
"INNOVATION IN SOLAR BUILDING SKINS & ENERGY EFFICIENCY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE CITIES" will take place in Berlin March 19th-20th. Experts from the construction industry, photovoltaic research field, and the financial sector will discuss innovative solutions for ...
Message to residents: false alarm at the research reactor BER II on 7 March 2018
We wold like to inform you that a false alarm was triggered at 9:19 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of March 2018 at the Berliner Experimental Reactor BER II. At the time the alarm went off, BER II was still operating normally and continuously. After clarifying ...
Guest researcher at HZB: Bessel Prize Winner Benjamin Rotenberg
Prof. Benjamin Rotenberg has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 2018 and will be spending time regularly as a guest researcher at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Rotenberg is a researcher of the ...
Dr. Raul Garcia Diez wins the Dissertationspreis Adlershof 2017
With his talk on the properties of nanoparticles and how they can be measured more accurately at BESSY II, Dr. Raul Garcia Diez convinced the jury and was awarded the Dissertationspreis Adlershof 2017. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, IGAFA e. V. and the WISTA ...
Joint graduate school for data science sponsors its first projects
The Helmholtz Association, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and the universities of Berlin are creating a new PhD programme in Berlin for the field of data science. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is involved in several of the projects. The first training ...
HZB launches Helmholtz International Research School in collaboration with...
On 1st February 2018, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has established the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE, which will be oriented towards solar energy research. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann Institute in ...
Application open for Young Investigator Workshop
The Virtual Institute (VI) "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes” explores the governing principles of material functions and is internationally highly visible. Young scientists are invited to participate in the Young Investigators Workshop ...
Milestone reached: electron source for bERLinPro produces its first beam
On the HZB Adlershof campus, researchers are building a prototype of an energy-recovery linear accelerator (bERLinPro). Intensive research has been going on for years to develop the worldwide unique key components required for this accelerator. Now, the ...
Frohe Weihnachten und alles Gute für 2018!
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Accolade and social commitment at the same time: Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech has...
The German "National Academy of Science and Engineering – acatech” has admitted Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech, an expert in renewable energies, into its circle of members. Bernd Rech has headed the Institute of Silicon Photovoltaics at Helmholtz-Zentrum ...
BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB
More than 600 scientists registered this year for the 9th annual BER II and BESSY II User Meeting from Wednesday to Friday, 13-15 December 2017. The Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin recognised outstanding work in the field of synchrotron radiation with an ...
15 years of Russian–German cooperation at BESSY II
At an event at HZB, 70 employees and guests were eagerly awaiting a package from Siberia. It arrived a little late, but thankfully just in time: in the package was a relief by a Russian sculptor, which is now ceremoniously unveiled for the 15th anniversary of ...
HZB researcher Catherine Dubourdieu appointed full professor at Freie...
Catherine Dubourdieu has become a full professor at the Freie Universität Berlin commencing December 2017. The Freie Universität Berlin is one of eleven German elite universities in the German Universities Excellence Initiative. Her position will be that of ...
PVcomB and AVANCIS launch joint MyCIGS research project in order to improve...
The Competence Centre Thin-Film- and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) is contributing its expertise to improving copper-indium-gallium-sulphide (CIGS) thin-film production in the MyCIGS collaborative research project. CIGS-module manufacturer ...
Miniaturised spectrometer wins first prize at international conference
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) team together with experts at Ulm University and the University of Stuttgart have designed an electron spin resonance spectrometer that fits a box 10 cm on a side. The team presented the device to a technology jury at the ...
HZB makes new contacts with Argentinian Neutron Beams Laboratory
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Argentinian Neutron Beams Laboratory, LAHN (Laboratorio Argentino de Haces de Neutrones). Through this cooperation, HZB will be advising Argentinian researchers on the construction of ...
LEAPS – Europe’s light sources join together to coordinate cutting-edge research
A new strategic group comprising the organisations operating European accelerator-based light sources has been founded in Brussels. The goal of the LEAPS consortium (League of European Accelerator-Based Photon Sources) is to elevate European collaboration on ...
Einladung: Informationsveranstaltung zum Rückbau des Berliner...
Ende 2019 schaltet das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) den Berliner Experimentierreaktor BER II endgültig ab. Über die gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung hinaus möchte das HZB deshalb mit allen interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in einen ...
HZB is involved in the Helmholtz exchange programme with China
The Helmholtz Association and the Office of China Postdoctoral Council, OCPC, are establishing a common exchange programme for Chinese postdocs. The young scientists will be researching at eight Helmholtz centres for two years before returning to China. HZB ...
Approved! The EU INFINITE-CELL project
A large EU-sponsored research project on tandem solar cells in which HZB is participating begins in November 2017. The goal is to combine thin-film semiconductors made of silicon and kesterites into especially cost-effective tandem cells having efficiencies ...
“Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis” for Norbert...
At the IUPAC NMS-XIII conference in Nanjing, Professor Dr. Norbert Koch has been awarded the "Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis "of IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and of the Conference Committee. Koch ...
Poster Award for HZB-PhD student at European Conference on Thermoelectrics
Monika Raja Thulasimani is working on hybrid thermoelectrics at the Graduate School MatSec at HZB. During the European Conference on Thermoelectrics 2017 her poster contribution was selected for an award. The young scientist described a solution based ...
Great Interest in the HySPRINT Industry Day: Joining forces to advance...
No fewer than 70 participants attended the first Industry Day of the Helmholtz Innovation Lab HySPRINT devoted to the topic of perovskite solar cells at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) on 13 October 2017. This far exceeded the expectations of the event hosts. ...
HZB apprentice is the best precision engineer ("Feinwerkmechaniker") in the...
Philipp Janusch completed an apprenticeship at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin to become a "precision engineer”, and passed his journeyman’s examination as the best of his year in the State of Berlin. What is more, he achieved this despite shortening his ...
Get in the action for climate protection: HZB team comes in 7th in CITY CYCLING
In September, 63 employees in the HZB team competed in the Germany-wide CITY CYCLING campaign. Over three weeks, they rode a total of 16,240 kilometres, landing them in seventh place – right behind the Berlin fire brigade and TU Berlin. And the best ...
Goodbye Paper Cups: Starting Monday, coffee in the Wannsee canteen will only be...
As many as 150 coffee-to-go cups are used every day in the Wannsee canteen. These cups cannot be reasonably recycled, and instead end up as land fill. Now, the canteen is putting an end to this wastage. As of the 16th of October, coffee to go can only be ...
Anwohnerinformation: Notfallübung am 14. Oktober am HZB in Berlin-Wannsee
Am 14. Oktober findet die jährliche Notfallübung am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Wannsee statt. Die Übung dauert von 8.30 bis ca. 12 Uhr. Während dieser Zeit fahren viele Feuerwehrfahrzeuge zum Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Auch der Einsatz von Theaterrauch ist ...
The use coordination on a EU trip: promoting European light sources
Synchrotrons are outstanding tools for studying materials, cells and even cultural assets. Yet, many researchers in Eastern Europe are unaware that they are entitled to use them. The EU project Calipsoplus supports potential users from these countries.
Open doors for kids on 3. October: "Mouse-Day" at BESSY II
Tuesday 3. October 2017 is a special day in Germany. In order to help kids understand the world, a "Day of open Doors" is organised by the educational TV Programme "Sendung mit der Maus". Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has invited kids from age of four years on ...
Acoustic sculptures BESSY VSR - premiere at Saturday, 30. September 2017
For four days, the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg will be a creative lab for musical experimentation, staging concerts, artist talks, and workshops. With its 28 debuts and premieres, and more than 100 artists from 27 countries, the 2nd edition of ...
Invitation to HySPRINT – Industry Day “New Frontiers in PV Research: Emerging...
On 13 October, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin will be hosting its first Industry Day on the topic of Perovskite Solar Cells. Following a recap of the current state of research and development and the future potential of perovskite solar cells, participants from ...
The HZB website is being revised: take the Online Survey to tell us what you...
A modern company’s most important calling card is its website. HZB has an extensive online presence that has grown steadily over the years. There is a lot of exciting content – so much, in fact, that it becomes more and more difficult to surf. To ...
Breakthrough at EMIL: First undulator radiation in the CAT experiment
When the EMIL laboratory (Energy-Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin) was ceremoniously inaugurated a year ago in the presence of Federal Minister for Research Johanna Wanka, it was a major milestone for energy materials research at HZB. Ever since, HZB has ...
Atomiade 2018: Register now for the sporting highlight at Lago Maggiore
The 16th Atomiade will be held in Varese, Italy, from 8 to 11 June 2018. The hosts request that people register informally now so that they can optimally plan the event. Every three years, employees of European research institutes take part in the Atomiade ...
New magazine “lichtblick” is out: Select articles can be read in English on the...
"The photon is our strength", said Bernd Rech. Since the 1st of May 2017, he has been the acting Scientific Director of HZB. In our new magazine »lichtblick« we spoke with him about his most important duties, the strengths of HZB, and surprises ...
Record- efficiency solar cells realised by the HyPerCells Graduate School
The University of Potsdam and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin founded the HyPerCells Graduate School just two years ago with focus on metal halide perovskites for solar applications. Now, groups involved in the graduate school have demonstrated perovskite solar ...
1130 Besucher bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am Standort Wannsee
Das HZB begrüßte zur "Klügsten Nacht des Jahres" am 24. Juni 2017 mehr als tausend Gäste, darunter viele Kinder und Jugendliche. Quirliges Treiben auf unserer Wissenschaftsstraße, großer Andrang bei den Mitmach-Experimenten und beim Schülerlabor, ...
100 kindergarten kids do experiments at HZB on the Day of Little Researchers
Kindergarten children are inquisitive and want to know how everything works – and they ask a great deal of questions. On the Germany-wide "Day of Little Researchers" on 19 June, around 100 kids visited the HZB School Labs in Adlershof and Wannsee and ...
Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am 24. Juni macht schlau - auch am HZB in...
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin lädt am Samstag auf dem Campus Wannsee zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft ein. Unsere Highlights für Sie: Führungen durch die Experimentierbereiche um den Forschungsreaktor, durch die Energie-Labore und den Beschleuniger für die ...
EU project CALIPSOplus has started for free access to European light sources
The EU is providing ten million euros in funding for the project CALIPSOplus, submitted by 19 European light sources. The project consortium, of which Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is a member, kicked off on May 2017. CALIPSOplus is aimed at promoting the ...
New at Campus Wannsee: CoreLab Quantum Materials
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has expanded its series of CoreLabs for energy materials research. In addition to the five established CoreLabs, it has now set up a CoreLab for Quantum Materials. A research team from the HZB Institute for Quantum Phenomena in New ...
New lab for electrochemical interfaces at BESSY II
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is establishing a joint lab together with the Max Planck Society (MPS) to study electrochemical phenomenon at solid/liquid interfaces. The Berlin Joint Lab for Electrochemical Interfaces, or BElChem for short, will employ ...
Using focussed ion beams in research - HZB workshop on focussed ion-beam...
Focussed ion beams are highly useful tools for researchers in various disciplines. Samples can be etched in the micro- and nanometre range with them. Modern ion microscopes as well as their complementary methods and techniques are available at the HZB and can ...
Intersolar Europe in Munich: HZB research meets solar industry
At the major international photovoltaics exhibition from 31 May to 2 June 2017, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will be exhibiting solar energy research projects and presenting opportunities for industrial cooperation in the field of photovoltaics (PV).
Three-dimensional graphene: experiment at BESSY II shows that optical...
An international research team has for the first time investigated the optical properties of three-dimensional nanoporous graphene at the IRIS infrared beamline of the BESSY II electron storage ring. The experiments show that the plasmonic excitations ...
New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon...
Dr. Matthew T. Mayer is setting up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He investigates how carbon dioxide and water can be converted electrochemically into hydrocarbons such as methane and methanol by using ...
HZB and Freie Universität Berlin establish the joint research group “X-Ray...
In May this year, the joint research group "X-Ray Microscopy” was launched, combining the expertise of teams led by Prof. Dr. Gerd Schneider (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Helge Ewers (Freie Universität Berlin). While Ewers’ group ...
HZB Distinguished Lecture on 13 June, 2 pm: Prof. Douglas MacFarlane speaks...
We cordially invite you to the next "HZB Distinguished Lecture”, which will also be a commemorative event for our friend and colleague, Prof. Leone Spiccia, who passed away in December 2016. Leone held a professorship at Monash University in Australia ...
The Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional...
24 scientists from various countries participated in the Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes in Grainau am Eibsee in the Bavarian Alps. This workshop which was organized by Professor Alexander Föhlisch was ...
Eindrücke von der Verabschiedung von Prof. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Am 2. Mai haben wir Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla mit einem Festkolloquium feierlich verabschiedet. Über 200 Gäste und Wegbegleiter aus der Wissenschaft und Politik sind gekommen, um ihr für die hervorragende Zusammenarbeit und ihr großes Engagement für das ...
Bernd Rech becomes provisional Scientific Director of the HZB on May 1, 2017.
Following the succession of long-serving Scientific Director Prof. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla to President of TU Braunschweig, the Supervisory Board of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has appointed Prof. Bernd Rech as provisional Scientific Director. He assumes this ...
Ansturm auf die 70 Plätze beim Girl’s Day im HZB
Wie sieht die Arbeit von Wissenschaftlerinnen, Ingenieurinnen oder Programmiererinnen aus? Beim Girls‘ Day können Mädchen MINT-Berufe (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik) kennenlernen, die noch immer nicht besonders beliebt bei den ...
Registration open for Quantsol Summer School
Newcomers and young scientists in solar energy research can register now for the 10. International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol). The school is organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the ...
Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices
Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect is observed in tiny asymmetric permalloy rings and may pave the way to extremely efficient new memory devices. The ...
Neue HZB-Zeitung „lichtblick“ erschienen
In ihrem letzten Interview als Geschäftsführerin des HZB erläutert Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, warum sie gerade jetzt geht, obwohl sie eigentlich noch gern geblieben wäre. Nils Martensson lernen wir als Pendler zwischen Nobel-Komitee und HZB kennen. Und Marcus Bär ...
Yan Lu receives a professorship at the University of Potsdam
Dr. Yan Lu is a group leader at the Institute for "Soft Matter and Functional Materials”. At HZB, she is researching functional hybrid materials that consist of colloid particles. As of 1 April 2017, Yan Lu has been appointed as W2 Professor for ...
CIGS Thin-film Solar Modules: HZB invites for workshop
Global demand for photovoltaic systems is rising sharply. CIGS thin-film modules have become a hot topic for the solar industry. International experts will convene in Stuttgart on May 30, 2017, at the annual IW-CIGSTech workshop to discuss past and potential ...
Foundation stone laying ceremony for an energy research laboratory on Wannsee...
A milestone has been reached in the expansion of energy materials research at the Lise-Meitner Campus: on 23 March 2017, the celebration was held for laying the foundation stone of a laboratory building that will offer a multitude of methods for synthesising ...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde was a guest of HZB
From 15 to 16 March, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde, DGM (German association of materials science), held its closed board meeting and Advisory Council meeting at HZB. The experts took the occasion to visit the synchrotron source BESSY II and the ...
Christiane Becker receives a professorship at HTW Berlin University of Applied...
Prof. Dr. Christiane Becker has accepted the call to a W2 professorship for the field of "Experimental physics focusing on material sciences and photonics” at HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Since October 2012, she has headed a Young ...
Dr. Antonio Abate sets up a new Helmholtz Young Investigator Group to improve...
Dr. Antonio Abate sets up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and moved to Berlin a few days ago. His aim: He wants to improve Perovskite solar cells which are one of the most promising material classes to be discovered in the ...
20 participants join the first Photon School at HZB
From 14 to 24 March, the first Photon School takes place at HZB. 20 students from 8 countries get an unique opportunity for a first-hand training covering a wide range of experimental and theoretical methods for probing the molecular structure, function, and ...
Uschi Steigenberger receives prestigious British medal for her service to the...
World-reknowned physicist Dr. Uschi Steigenberger has been honoured with one of the highest decorations in Great Britain for her services to the sciences. She was awarded the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) medal by the Minister of State for Universities, ...
Agreement signed: Three neutron instruments will be transferred to the Polish...
In February 2017 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Poland agreed to transfer and rebuild three of HZB’s neutron scattering instruments at the Polish research reactor MARIA in 2019. With support from ...
HZB and Freie Universität Berlin are establishing the joint research group...
For eight years, HZB’s "Macromolecular Crystallography” workgroup has been successfully cooperating with the "Structural Biochemistry” research group headed by Prof. Markus Wahl at the Freie Universität Berlin. They are about to intensify ...
School labs of the HZB and Helmholtz Association are more popular with every...
The aim of the Helmholtz school labs is to make science fun for children and adolescents. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has run a school lab on the Wannsee campus since 2004 and on the Adlershof campus since 2010. During this time, more than 20,000 visitors have ...
Neutron instrument BioRef arrived safely in Down Under
As reported, the neutron instrument BioRef will be set up at the "Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering” of ANSTO. Approximately 257 components were safely packed in 43 wooden crates weighing just under 30 tonnes for the sea voyage from Hamburg to ...
Dr. Alex Redinger receives assistant professorship at the University of...
Alex Redinger will be receiving two million euros in funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund for expanding his research into solar cells materials. This is combined with an assistant professorship at the University of Luxembourg with the ...
3000th ocular tumour patient treated using protons at HZB
A team at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has now treated its 3000th ocular tumour patient with an individualised proton radiation protocol. This involves irradiating the tumour with fast hydrogen nuclei (protons) ...
Young Investigators Workshop of the Helmholtz Virtual Institute "Dynamic...
The Virtual Institute explores the governing principles of material’s function in an internationally highly visible centre of excellence. From now on, young scientists (PhD students, master students, and young postdocs) are invited to participate in the ...
7.4 million euros from the EFRE fund: HZB is setting up a new application...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is receiving 7.4 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE). The money is being used to set up the application laboratory "SupraLab@HZB” for the advancement of high-current superconducting cavities. These ...
Graduate school MatSEC: New PhD students can apply now
The first students of the graduate school MatSEC (Materials for Solar Energy Conversion) have defended successfully their PhD thesis. The graduate school, which is organised jointly by Dahlem Research School of Freie Universität Berlin, is now open for new ...
The BioRef neutron instrument to be set up again at ANSTO in Australia
The BioRef neutron instrument commenced its roughly two-month journey from HZB to Australia on December 19, 2016. It will be set up again at the OPAL neutron source there, part of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney. ...
Prof. Dr. Martina Schmid assumes the professorship of experimental physics at...
On 1 January 2017, Martina Schmid assumed the W2 professorship of "experimental physics” in the Physics department of the University of Duisburg Essen. From 2012 to the end of 2016, Martina Schmid headed the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ...
Frohe Weihnachten und alles Gute für 2017!
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is establishing a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group...
Dr. Matthew T. Mayer from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be putting together a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group in the field of energy materials research at HZB. He will be researching into how carbon dioxide and ...
Video über akustische Skulpturen zu BESSY VSR erschienen
Der Klangkünstler Gerriet K. Sharma arbeitet an einem Projekt, zu dem ihn das Ausbauvorhaben BESSY VSR am HZB inspiriert hat. Dabei erschafft er in seinen Kompositionen akustische Skulpturen, die mit einem Ikosaederlautsprecher hörbar werden. Die Technik ...
Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis und Innovationspreis Synchrotronstrahlung
Am 8. Dezember 2016 vergab der Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin zum 26. mal den Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis für eine herausragende Promotionsarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung sowie den Innovationspreis Synchrotronstrahlung. Die ...
Prof. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla recommended for President of Technische Universität...
The Academic Senate of the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig has recommended Prof. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla to the Ministry of Science and Culture for the State of Lower Saxony, Germany, as TU Braunschweig’s choice for its next ...
Eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB
More than 500 scientist have gathered at the eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB on December 7th to 9th, 2016. The Verein Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. did bestow the Innovation Award and the Ernst-Eckard-Koch Prize. A Poster ...
Talk given by Martina Schmid at PVSEC-26 lauded
PVSEC-26, one of the largest international conferences in the field of photovoltaics, took place in Singapore at the end of October. Prof. Martina Schmid received a "Best Oral Presentation Award” for her talk in the field of New Materials and Concepts.
Research for Germany’s energy transition: EMIL@BESSY II approved for the...
The storage of excess solar and wind power is one of the greatest challenges in Germany’s energy transition. To address this, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has created the "Power-to-X” (P2X) project under its ...
HZB Distinguished Lecture on 21 November: Prof. Stuart Parkin speaks about spin...
We cordially invite you to the "HZB Distinguished Lectures". Prof. Stuart Parkin from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg will present on 21 November 2016 his thoughts ...
Birgit Schröder-Smeibidl is the new Administrative Director of the German...
On 1 November, HZB’s longstanding head of "Facility Management" and security chief, Dr. Birgit Schröder-Smeibidl, moved to the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam. The HZB management congratulates Ms. Schröder-Smeibidl on her new post.
Kathrin Aziz-Lange is a professor at the University of Bielefeld
As of 1 November 2016, Kathrin Aziz-Lange is a junior professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Bielefeld. The physicist has been head of a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin since January 2016. She and her team ...
EMIL, a 2000-square-metre laboratory complex, has opened for research into new...
After three years of construction, the Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory (EMIL) is now open. The new laboratory complex for researching energy materials, annexed to BESSY II in Berlin-Adlershof, was ceremonially inaugurated with the involvement of the ...
Young researchers from eleven countries attended the Autumn School of the...
From the 9th to the 14th of October 2016, the "Autumn School on Microstructural Characterisation and Modelling of Thin-Film Solar Cells” brought together lecturers and participants from eleven different countries. In the Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz, 30 ...
Twitter Storify: All about the Foresight Workshop on Energy Materials Research...
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie focuses on developing advanced materials for solar energy conversion and storage and wants to extend a discussion platform for future projects and research activities. Therefore HZB invites current and ...
Diana Quintero Castro gets a professorship at the University of Stavanger,...
Diana Quintero Castro has been appointed as associate professor in the faculty of science and technology at the University of Stavanger. At HZB she is responsible for the cold triple axis neutron spectrometer FLEXX at the neutron source BER II and focuses on ...
HZB-Schülerlabor zu Gast bei der SchülerUni der Freien Universität Berlin
Vom 26. bis 30. September 2016 öffnet die Freie Universität Berlin ihren Campus für Berliner Schulen. Unter dem Motto "Lernen für eine zukunftsfähige Welt" bietet sie 80 verschiedene Workshops an und verwandelt Hörsäle und Seminarräume in Mitmachlabore und ...
VI-Conference "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes 2016"
Near the museum island, in the heart of Berlin, the International Conference "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes 2016" has taken place last week. More than 100 international experts met at the Magnus-Haus of the German Physical Society from 12 ...
Aktion STADTRADELN: HZB-Team derzeit auf dem vierten Platz in Berlin
3100 Kilometer haben die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des HZB-Team in nur einer Woche mit dem Rad zurückgelegt. Damit landet das HZB im berlinweiten Ranking der Aktion STADTRADELN derzeit auf Platz 4. Die Aktion zeigt: Radfahren für den Klimaschutz - das ...
International conference QENS 2016 and Workshop WINS 2016 in Potsdam
From 5th to 9th of September HZB has hosted two international scientific events dedicated to the study of the dynamics at nanoscale, QENS and WINS 2016. While Quasielastic Neutron scattering conference (QENS 2016) was dedicated to the scientific applications, ...
User research at BESSY II: How water moves glass
In the realm of plants, capillary forces are a widely observed impetus for actuation. They are the physical basis for the expansion of porous materials during uptake of fluid. Such materials include the cones of conifers with their readily observable movement ...
Veranstaltungshinweis: Vortrag Potsdamer Köpfe mit Daniel Abou-Ras und...
Am 8. September lädt die Wissenschaftsetage im Bildungsforum Potsdam zu zwei interessanten Veranstaltungen ein. Den Auftakt macht Daniel Abous-Ras um 18 Uhr mit seinem Vortrag: "Das lässt tief blicken – Solarzellen unter dem Mikroskop". Der Physiker ...
European project for thin film Kesterite Solar cells has reached its goals
Eleven partners from different countries have joined forces in the EU-research project KESTCELLS from September 2012 until 31. August 2016. The mission was to train a new generation of experts and to increase the efficiencies of Kesterite solar cells. Now, at ...
Silicon thin fims in Lithium-Ion-Batteries: Charging observed with neutron...
The capacity of lithium-ion batteries might be increased theoretically by six times by using anodes made of silicon instead of graphite. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute of Soft Matter and Functional Materials has observed for the ...
Started: International Summer Student Programme
Coming from all over the world, 18 students have joined HZB as guests for this summer. From August 1 until September 23 they take part in the international summer student programme, HZB is organising since over 25 years. During the following weeks, the ...
Two Freigeist Fellows interweave their research at HZB
Two Freigeist Fellows are conducting research at the HZB Institute for Methods of Material Development through support received from the Volkswagen Foundation. Theoretical chemist Dr. Annika Bande is modelling fast electron processes, while Dr. Tristan Petit ...
Invitation - Topping-out ceremony for new accelerator hall at HZB
The shell for the bERLinPro building – the test facility for an energy-recovery linear accelerator at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin – is now complete. The extremely complex structure was erected at the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Campus of HZB in ...
Klangkunst im Speicherring, Ausstellung im Rohbau: Der Juli steht ganz im...
Malerei, Installation, Foto, Video, Performance: Studierende und bereits etablierte Kunstschaffende stellen in der unterirdischen Teilchenbeschleunigerhalle bERLinPro aus. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) als Bauherr, DGI Bauwerk als Architekten und der ...
Kunstausstellung im Beschleuniger-Rohbau des HZB vom 29. bis 31. Juli
Malerei, Installation, Foto, Video, Performance: Studierende und bereits etablierte Kunstschaffende stellen in der unterirdischen Teilchenbeschleunigerhalle bERLinPro aus. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) als Bauherr, DGI Bauwerk als Architekten und der ...
HZB experts at the Parliamentary Evening of the Deutsche Physikalische...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, as a major German research institute for energy research, took part in the Parliamentary Evening of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG). Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech of the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics was the scientific ...
X-ray CoreLab now in operation and available
All regular HZB scientists as well as visiting scientists can now use the diverse X-ray diffractometry equipment at the X-ray CoreLab, effective immediately. Each instrument is up-to-date with the latest versions of hardware & software and specialised for ...
Monash University awards three HZB-scientist with adjunct professorships
Cooperation between Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, is thriving. Now, Monash University has awarded three HZB-scientists with adjunct professorships: Prof. Klaus Lips, Dr. Alexander Schnegg and Prof. Emad Aziz have ...
event note: Thomas Struth presents a photography of BESSY II at...
Thomas Struth is internationally considered one of the most important artists of his generation. For the first time, his work will be displayed at the Berliner Martin-Gropius-Bau. The exhibition will feature approximately 37 large-format photographs from the ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin at European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference
On 23rd June, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the ZSW jointly organised the IW-CIGSTech 7 as a side event of the EU-PVSEC Conference in Munich. About 150 international attendees, mainly from Europe, Asia and North America came together to get an extensive ...
Talk of Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu on June 23rd 2016
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is boosting its energy materials research and setting up the newly established institute "Functional Oxides for Energy-Efficient Information Technology”, under the leadership of Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu. On this ...
4000 Besucher bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am HZB
Am 11. Juni 2016 strömten fast 4000 Menschen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften an das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin am Standort Adlershof. Mitgebracht haben die Besucher viele Fragen, Neugier und Spaß am Experimentieren. Ein Besuchermagnet war der ...
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am 11. Juni von 17 bis 24 Uhr am HZB –...
Wissenschaft hochaktuell – das gibt es an vielen Instituten und Universitäten wieder am 11. Juni zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften. Doch einen Teilchenbeschleuniger von innen bestaunen – das können die Besucher nur am HZB. Wir laden Sie herzlich ...
Call for Applications: 20 doctoral fellowships offered by Graduate School of...
SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is announcing 20 doctoral fellowships. The program offers a structured, three-year period of multidisciplinary research combined with an integrated curriculum in ...
Helmholtz Innovation Labs: HySPRINT at HZB
HZB will be setting up the new Helmholtz HySPRINT Innovation Lab for jointly developing new combinations of materials and processes in energy applications with commercial partners. Silicon and metal-organic perovskite crystals will be the centre point of the ...
Autumn School on Microstructural Characterization and Modelling of Thin-Film...
After the successful first edition of this school in 2014, we invite you cordially to join this Autumn School to be held at Akademie Schmöckwitz, Berlin, Germany, October 9-14, 2016. Application submission will be possible until June 30, 2016.
Intersolar Europe / EU PVSEC / 7th IW-CIGSTech Workshop 2016 – Munich, 20-24...
We cordially invite you to visit the HZB booth during Intersolar Europe - The world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry and its partners from 22 to 24 June 2016 in Munich, Germany. Also the online registration is open for the EU-PVSEC and we ...
Helmholtz Virtual Institute International Conference "Dynamic Pathways in...
We invite you to join the International Conference "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes" which will take place in the heart of Berlin at the Magnus-Haus of the German Physical Society from September, 12th -16th, 2016. Now, the Online registration ...
Registration open: Quantsol Summer School on solar energy conversion
Registration for Quantsol is now open! It is already the ninth time that the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) will be held in September 2016 in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. The ...
Energy Materials: Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu sets up the institute “Functional...
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is boosting its energy materials research and setting up a new institute. Through the Helmholtz Recruitment Initiative, the HZB has gained renowned researcher Catherine Dubourdieu as Institute Director. In the newly ...
Veranstaltungstipp: „Battle den Horst“ – Science Slam mit HZB-Physiker am 14....
Der Science Slam "Battle den Horst" geht in die nächste Runde – dieses Mal mit Beteiligung eines HZB-Kandidaten. Beim Adlershofer Science Slam am 14. April erklären Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, wie effizient Solarzellen sind und wie ...
Priority programme for topological insulators begins second funding period
Applicants for support funds to conduct research on topological insulators met at HZB Adlershof on February 15th and 16th. This meeting dealt with the second period of funding for the SPP 1666 Priority programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) that ...
Young scientist award for Oliver Supplie
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallzüchtung und Kristallwachstum (DGKK) presented Oliver Supplie with the DGKK Young Scientist Award on 16 March 2016. Supplie works at the TU Ilmenau and at the HZB, and accepted the prize worth 2,500 euros during the "1st ...
Hint: HZB Postdoc Association introduces a Postdoc of the Month on their webpage
What have Galina Gurieva, Franziska Huschmann, Alex Redinger in common? They are postdocs working at HZB. For connecting each other and providing an channel for networking the HZB Postdoc Association introduces each month the work of one of the researchers at ...
Matthias May mit dem Doktorandenpreis der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft ausgezeichnet
Dr. Matthias May erforschte in seiner Promotion am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), wie man mit Sonnenlicht noch effizienter Wasser spalten und in Form von Wasserstoff speichern kann. Für seine Arbeit erhielt er am 27. Januar 2016 den mit 5.000 Euro dotierten ...
MacQueen is researching into optical energy converters for generating fuels:...
Dr. Rowan W. MacQueen will come in spring 2016 to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and will receive funding for his research project through the Helmholtz Postdoc Programme. He will be studying the optoelectronic properties at the boundaries of thin organic ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin expands its solar fuel research: Kathrin Aziz-Lange...
Dr. Kathrin Maria Aziz-Lange has won approval to set up a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group (YIG) addressing the topic of solar fuels at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). She will receive 250,000 Euros in annual support for a period of five years, with half ...
Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis und Innovationspreis Synchrotronstrahlung
Am 10. Dezember 2015 vergab der Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin zum 25. mal den Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis für eine herausragende Promotionsarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung. Die Preisverleihung fand während des 7. BER II und ...
Ausstellung bei BESSY II: Die besten Bilder vom HZB Science Photo Walk
Die 20 besten Bilder vom HZB Science Photo Walk sind ab sofort bis Ende März 2016 in einer Ausstellung bei BESSY II für die Öffentlichkeit zu besichtigen. Am 15. Dezember 2015 wurden die Preise bei der Vernissage an die Fotografen im Namen der Jury übergeben.
Invitation to the HZB Science Slam: TODAY at 18.30 o’clock in Adlershof
We invite you to the HZB Science Slam that takes place today at 18.30 o’clock at the Melli Beese Kabinett (Adlershof Forum). Three scientists present their topics in an understandable, entertaining and concise way and, moreover, in only 10 minutes. The ...
Common platform for macromolecular crystallography at European synchrotrons
Researchers use high-intensity X-ray light from synchrotron radiation sources to decipher the structures of biological molecules and thus the blueprints of life. A cooperation agreement has been effective since 2012 to establish common software standards at ...
Three days for exchange between Users of BESSY II and BER II and HZB-scientists
The Seventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting will take place at WISTA, Berlin-Adlershof on December 9th and 10th, the neutrons session are at Berlin-Wannsee on December 11th. The Verein Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. will bestow the ...
HZB Science-Photowalk - Holger Fehsenfeld gewinnt mit "Weltraum" Foto
Zum zweiten Mal lud das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin am 6. November 2015 Hobbyfotografen zu einem Fotospaziergang durch die Labore und den Elektronenspeicherring ein. 47 Fotografen haben fast 200 Wettbewerbsbilder eingereicht. Aus diesen hat eine Jury Top 20 ...
PVcomB-25 paper awards for two HZB-Contributions
At the 25th International Photovoltaic Science & Engineering Conference (PVSEC) two papers from the HZB-Institute PVcomB have been awarded: Jan-Peter Bäcker and Marc Daniel Heinemann received the PVSEC-25 Paper Award for their research on chalcogenide solar ...
Distinguished Lectures at HZB: Prof. T. Krauss will talk about Photovoltaics...
Solar power has the highest potential among all renewable energy sources, it is clean and practically inexhaustible. Despite the already very high performance of silicon solar cells with 25% efficiency and low costs, a lot of research is yet required in order ...
Filming microscopic and macroscopic changes within materials
The EDDI beamline at BESSY II is now offering even more options. It has recently become possible to also obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of microscopic structure with it, up to four such tomographies per second are possible. X-ray diffraction ...
HEUTE: Kunst und Wissenschaft - Dr. Paul Goslawski trägt am 17. November 2015...
Kunst und Wissenschaft gehören auf dem ersten Blick nicht unbedingt zusammen, dennoch verbindet beide Welten viel. Dr. Paul Goslwaski, Beschleunigerforscher am HZB, trägt im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Alicja Kwade – Monolog aus dem 11ten Stock" im Haus am ...
rbb-Inforadio: Andreas Jankowiak im Gespräch über bERLinPro
Die Baustelle für bERLinPro fällt auf. Sie ist auch dem Wissenschaftsredakteur des rbb-Inforadio, Thomas Prinzler, nicht entgangen. Und so kam es zu einem kurzweiligen Gespräch, in dem Andreas Jankowiak die Herausforderungen des Projekts erläutert. Hohe ...
New class of materials for organic electronics:
Joint project details charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride for first time Polymeric carbon nitride is an organic material with interesting optoelectronic properties. As an inexpensive photocatalyst, it can be used to facilitate water splitting using ...
BESSY II electron highway gets second lane
The particle accelerator team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has demonstrated that BESSY II, the 3rd generation synchrotron radiation source in Berlin, can be operated with not just one, but two simultaneous electron paths. By precisely tuning the magnetic ...
Uppsala Berlin Joint Laboratory “Our willingness to cooperate is our strength”
Great political interest for the new Uppsala Berlin Joint Laboratory (UBjL): On the 4th of November, Sweden’s ambassador in Germany, Dr. Lars Danielsson, came personally to the HZB where the UBjL is established for the inauguration of the joint project.
50 amateur photographers participate in the Science Photowalk at...
BESSY II is an amazing location for scientists from all over the world. But today, it will be amazing for more than 50 amateur photographers, too. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) invites them to participate on 6. November 2015 in a Science-Photowalk at ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin auf der Jahrestagung des Forschungsverbunds...
Vom 3. Bis 4. November 2015 findet die Jahrestagung des Forschungsverbunds Erneuerbare Energie (FVEE) im Umweltforum Berlin in Berlin statt. Schwerpunktthema ist in diesem Jahr die Wärmewende. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin ist mit einem Infostand und Vorträgen ...
Science Photowalk at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) invites you to participate on 6. November 2015 in a Science-Photowalk at BESSY II. If you love to take photographies of unconventional objects, you will get unique opportunities during a guided tour through the storage ring and ...
D-Lecture with Metin Tolan: “Burning Ice” - synchrotron radiation reveals how...
Most of the carbon on earth is stored as methane-hydrate in deep sea areas (so-called "burning ice”). Prof. Metin Tolan, Technische Universität Dortmund, will show new data from synchrotron experiments, which unveil the process of hydrate formation for ...
Simone Raoux becomes a Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Simone Raoux has accepted the call to the W3-S professorship "Nanospectroscopy for Design and Optimisation of Energy-Related Materials” in the Department of Physics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The professorship is associated with ...
German Solar Prize for scientist for Martha Lux-Steiner
Renowned physicist Prof. Martha Lux-Steiner, a scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, has received the German Solar Prize for 2015. The European Association for Renewable Energy (EUROSOLAR) recognised her lifetime of work and ...
Science-Video Wettbewerb: Der vom HZB eingereichte Beitrag aus dem Happy...
Jetzt gilt‘s: bitte teilen, kommentieren und voten. Der von Wissenschaft im Dialog durchgeführte Video-Wettbewerb "Fast Forward Science 2015" geht in die heiße Phase. 109 Videos sind bis zum Stichtag 31. Juli eingereicht worden, von denen eine Jury nun ...
Quantsol Sommerschule 2015 – erfolgreich im 8. Jahr
Die International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol) fand vom 6. bis 13. September 2015 zum achten Mal in Folge im österreichischen Hirschegg/Kleinwalsertal statt. Über 50 angehende Solarforscherinnen ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin successfully at international Photovoltaic Conference...
From 14. to 18. September more than 2.500 experts on photovoltaics from all over the world met at the 31th EU PVSEC in Hamburg to discuss the latest developments and innovations. HZB was present at the conference with oral and poster presentations and in ...
Catalysis research strengthened: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin participates in newly...
The Einstein Foundation will fund the new Einstein Center for Catalysis (EC2) beginning in 2016 in which Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) and selected non-university institutions in Berlin will be participating. Prof. Emad Aziz, head of the HZB ...
Summer students: Final presentation at a conference
On Thursday, 24. September 2015, the summerstudents have presented their projects in Wannsee in a science conference format: Three topics have been selected for oral presentation, the other projects were presented in a poster session, thus all students could ...
How to Flow Ultrathin Water Layers - A Liquid Flatjet for X-Ray Spectroscopy
A collaboration between scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) have now demonstrated the ...
Das HZB-Schülerlabor an der Schüleruni der Freien Universität Berlin
Unter dem Motto "Lernen für eine zukunftsfähige Welt" öffnet die Freie Universität Berlin ihren grünen Campus für eine Schüleruniversität. Eine Woche lang erforschen Schülerinnen und Schüler der 5. Und 6. Klassen, was sich hinter dem Begriff der nachhaltigen ...
The 6th International Conference on Small-Angle Scattering SAS in the Social...
Scientific networking at its best. 400 scientists from around the world met in Berlin from 13th to 18th September 2015. The SAS 2015 Conference is a triennial forum for the discussion of the most recent advances in the field of small angle scattering and ...
Gemeinsames Treffen der Strukturbiologen in Berlin: der 6. Joint-MX-Day am 23....
Die Hauptstadt hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem Hotspot der Strukturbiologie in Deutschland entwickelt. Entscheidend dazu beigetragen hat das hohe Maß an Kooperation zwischen außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen und Universitäten. Aber auch ...
Neuer lichtblick: Neues Exzellenzlabor mit ZEISS, Tipps für das sichere Surfen...
Hätten Sie den Low Alpha Mode lieber mit – oder ohne Photonenpicker? Wollen Sie die Polarisation vertikal oder elliptisch? Und den Kaffee stark oder entkoffeiniert? Kein Problem! Im Café Happy Undulator ist man guten Service und anspruchsvolle Wünsche ...
Posterpreis für HZB-Nachwuchsforscher Jannik Möser aus dem Institut für...
Für sein Poster über den experimentellen Nachweis von Defekten in Dünnschicht-Silizium-Materialien für die Photovoltaik hat Jannik Möser einen Preis erhalten. Er erhielt diese Auszeichnung auf der Tagung der Fachgruppe magnetische Resonanz der Gesellschaft ...
poster prize for Laura Elisa Valle Rios student at the European...
The poster contribution of Laura Elisa Valle Rios (HZB-Department Crystallography) was awarded the CrystEngComm poster price of the Royal Society of Chemistry at the 29th European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM29) in Rovinj (Croatia). Laura Elisa, a PhD ...
Milch, Wirkstoff-Taxis und andere kolloide Materialsysteme analysieren: SAS...
Vom 13. - 18. September treffen sich über 400 Expertinnen und Experten zur 16. Internationalen Konferenz zur Kleinwinkelstreuung (16. International Conference on Small Angle Scattering, SAS 2015) in Berlin. Mit Kleinwinkelstreuung lassen sich biologische und ...
Rohbauarbeiten für Beschleunigerhalle am HZB beginnen: Spatenstich für eine...
Unmittelbar vor dem Beginn der Rohbauarbeiten wurde am 10. September 2015 der Spatenstich für die neue Beschleunigerhalle von bERLinPro gefeiert, in der eine kompakte Testanlage für einen Linearbeschleuniger mit Energierückgewinnung aufgebaut wird. Zirka 200 ...
Berlin Joint EPR lab organises the 7th Summer School of the European Federation...
100 students and 20 lecturers from all around the world came to Berlin for a week at the end of August to take part in the biggest and most traditional educational event in the field of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The Summer School was organised, ...
Herzlich Willkommen: Ausbildungsstart am 1. September am HZB
11 Auszubildende und 4 Studierende starten heute ins Berufsleben. Am offiziellen Ausbildungsbeginn begrüßte der kaufmännische Geschäftsführer des HZB, Thomas Frederking, die Neuankömmlinge auf dem Campus Wannsee im Rahmen einer kleinen Kennlernveranstaltung.
Anomalous magnetic structure and spin dynamics in magnetoelectric LiFePO4
A team at HZB has recently unraveled intricate details of the magnetic structure and dynamics of the magnetoelectric compound LiFePO4.Such materials currently find use in sensors but there are promising perspectives for magnetoelectrics to be applied in data ...
BESSY II launches New Filling Pattern in User Mode
Since July 2015 BESSY II has been providing a new bunch filling pattern in Top-Up mode. It will open new opportunities especially for research teams dealing with time-resolved x-ray experiments. It is of significant importance for us and the community ...
Freigeist Fellowship for Tristan Petit
For his project on nanodiamond materials and nanocarbon, Dr. Tristan Petit has been awarded a Freigeist Fellowship from the VolkswagenStiftung. The grant covers a five-year period and will enable him to establish his own research team. The VolkswagenStiftung ...
Gerd Schneider receives a professorship for "X-ray microscopy" at...
On 29 April 2015, Gerd Schneider (HZB) accepted the call to a W2-S "X-ray microscopy” professorship at the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The professorship is associated with heading the workgroup "X-ray microscopy” at ...
New technique enables magnetic patterns to be mapped in 3D
An international collaboration has succeeded in using synchrotron light to detect and record the complex 3D magnetisation in wound magnetic layers. This technique could be important in the development of devices that are highly sensitive to magnetic fields, ...
HZB has its career and family certificate renewed: New agreed targets for the...
On 29 June 2015, Iris Gleicke, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, awarded the HZB the "berufundfamilie” certificate (career and family). So certified, the research centre has officially been a family-friendly ...
From Excited Atoms to Functionality – ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Alexander...
Under the EU Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation, Alexander Föhlisch has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. The physicists is holding a joint appointment at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy of the University of Potsdam and at the ...
Forschungskolloquium der Graduiertenschule MatSEC
Am 24. Juni trafen sich die Mitglieder der Graduiertenschule MatSEC zum halbjährlichen Forschungskolloquium auf dem Lise-Meitner-Campus. MatSEC wurde im Frühjahr 2013 unter dem Dach der Dahlem Research School der Freien Universität Berlin gegründet. Die ...
40 kindergarten kids jointed the School Lab on Little Scientists’ Day
Young guests visiting the School Lab of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is nothing unusual. But on the 23rd of June 2015, even the tiniest were allowed to get into the role of researcher and conduct their own experiments. The School Lab took part in the ...
50 PhD students from the HZB attended the PhD Retreat in Liebenwalde
From the 3rd to the 5th of June, 2015, this year’s PhD Retreat took place in Liebenwalde, with more than fifty PhD students from the HZB taking part. Among other topics, the programme included seminars on scientific writing, time management and learning ...
1,300 visitors at the Long Night of Sciences in Wannsee
Despite muggy-warm temperatures and storms on Saturday, thousands of eager people once again rolled in to catch up on the science in the region. 1,300 visitors to the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin took part in guided tours through laboratories and the colourful ...
Öffentliche Einweihung des Lise-Meitner-Denkmal am 13. Juni zur Langen Nacht...
Seit ein paar Tagen verfügt der Innenhof des Hörsaalgebäudes am Campus Wannsee über eine wahre Attraktion - das neu errichtete Lise-Meitner-Denkmal. Es wird bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am 13. Juni 2015 um 17.30 Uhr feierlich eröffnet. Die ...
HZB-Zeitung "lichtblick" Juni 2015 erschienen
Drei Monate liegen hinter uns, in denen viel passiert ist. Von uns lange erwartet wurde die Inbetriebnahme des Hochfeldmagneten für die Neutronenforschung im Mai 2015. Aber auch bei den anderen HZB-Zukunftsprojekten ging es rasant voran: die Bauarbeiten für ...
Poster award for MatSEC PhD student at the MRS Spring Meeting
The poster contribution of Kai Neldner (HZB-Department Crystallography) was awarded a poster price of the Symposium "Thin-Film Compound Semiconductors" at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Kai Neldner, a PhD student in the HZB Graduate School ...
Poster Award for HZB-Postdoc at EMRS Spring Meeting
During the spring meeting 2015 of the European Materials Research Society the Poster contribution of Dr. Ah Reum Jeong (HZB-Institute for Heterogeneous Material Systems) was selected for an award. The young scientist has presented results on electronic and ...
Success rate 100 percent: HZB teams get third party funding for Solar Fuel...
Converting solar energy and storing it in form of solar fuels, is one of the great scientific and technological challenges today to enable the transition into a more sustainable future powered by renewable energies. Scientists at the HZB institute for Solar ...
Commissioning party of the High Field Magnet at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
After about eight years of building and development, we are finally there: At the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, the world’s strongest magnet for neutron experiments is now available to scientists from across the world. The High Field Magnet will be ...
Wheel with triple sound velocity for pulse selection at BESSY II
In order to pick out only one pulse per turn out of the 400 possible x-ray flashes at BESSY II, a joint team of physicists and engineers from Forschungszentrum Jülich, MPI of Microstructure Physics and HZB have developed an extremely fast rotating "MHz-pulse ...
EU funding strengthens solar cell research at HZB
Marcus Bär and his team are participating in two international projects being funded under the EU Horizon 2020 research programme. Both research projects are concerned with development and optimisation of high-efficiency thin-film solar cells based on ...
New Guidelines for the completion of PhD projects within the Helmholtz...
The Helmholtz Centres and the President have agreed on common PhD guidelines. These guidelines define minimum standards for the creation of optimal conditions for PhD students to operate in and contribute towards a common understanding of quality. The ...
Raus aus der Schule, rein ins Labor: 90 Schülerinnen beim Girls'Day am...
90 Mädchen kamen dieses Jahr zum Girls’ Day in das HZB nach Wannsee und Adlershof. In Laboren und Werkstätten erlebten die Teilnehmerinnen, wie spannend die Arbeit in einem Forschungszentrum ist, und lernten Frauen kennen, die in ...
BESSY II changes over to solid state RF amplifiers
BESSY II storage ring has four cavity resonators that are excited with high-power oscillating electromagnetic fields to compensate for the energy lost by the electron beam. Four Klystrons, as they are called (large high-power linear RF vacuum tubes), have ...
Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Das Bild entsteht im Kopf" am 20. April um 17 Uhr...
Ab dem 20. April 2015 zeigt K. Berthold ihre Arbeiten im BESSY II-Gebäude. Sie ist Meisterschülerin der Universität der Künste Berlin und seit über 20 Jahren als Bildhauerin und Bildgestalterin tätig. In der Ausstellung zeigt die Künstlern über 40 Bilder, die ...
Antique Osiris figurines from the Egyptian Museum of Florence examined with...
An research team from the "Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics, Italy, examined three antique bronze figurines non-invasively with neutrons at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie. The statuettes from the Egyptian Museum of ...
Call for Applications open: International Summer University on Energy,...
Excellent Master, Diploma, and PhD Students from all over the world from different disciplines are invited to participate in the international summer university ISUenergy2015. The ISUenergy2015 will take place from Aug. 23rd - Sept. 4th 2015 in ...
New Opportunities for students in energy research:
HZB starts two Graduate Schools with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Potsdam Friday, 27 March 2015, the start of two new graduate schools on solar energy research was celebrated at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). Hybrid4Energy, the Graduate ...
TV-Tipp: Das HZB-Schülerlabor beim Jugendmagazin Yolo - Samstag, 21.3. um 9.15...
Wer an diesem Samstag schon früh auf den Beinen ist, dem sei das Jugendmagazin Yolo empfohlen. Der TV-Sender RTL strahlt von 9.15 bis 9.45 eine Serie aus, in der es um starke Kräfte und um Superhelden geht. Gedreht wurde unter anderem im HZB-Schülerlabor. ...
Sieger beim ScienceSelfie Wettbwerb: Die HZB-Panzerknacker Stefanie Kodalle und...
Mit finsterer Miene machen sich die HZB-Kolleginnen Jennifer Bierbaum und Stefanie Kodalle ans Werk: Die beiden Panzenknackerinnen wollen die 26 Tesla beim Hochfeldmagneten des HZB knacken. Glücklicherweise schießen sie im richtigen Augenblick ein Selfie mit ...
Eine neue Schülerlabor-AG am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin experimentiert zu...
Wie viel Strom verbraucht ein Smartphone? Wo kommt unser Strom her? Und ist er eigentlich teuer? Das Schülerlabor des Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin bietet am Standort Wannsee für Kinder der 5. bis 7. Klassen eine neue Arbeitsgruppe an. Immer donnerstags treffen ...
Workshop on “Microstructure Characterization and Modeling for Solar Cells”
The winter workshop was held in a beautiful location at Spitzingsee (Bayern) from 22. to 26. february 2015 and organised by Helmholtz Virtual Institute "Microstructure Control for Thin-Film Solar Cells". The next winter workshop will be planned for 2017.
Graduiertenschule MatSEC diskutiert über Kesterite für Solarzellen
Am 2. Februar 2015 trafen sich die Mitglieder der Graduiertenschule MatSEC auf dem Lise-Meitner-Campus des HZB zum wissenschaftlichen Austausch. In der Graduiertenschule MatSEC forschen die Promovierenden an neuartigen Materialsystemen für die solare ...
Universität Bielefeld und HZB kooperieren zu Nanoschichten und komplexen...
Im Februar 2015 haben Uni-Rektor Professor Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Sagerer, Uni-Kanzler Dr. Stephan Becker und die Geschäftsführer des HZB, Professorin Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla und Thomas Frederking eine Vereinbarung über die Zusammenarbeit unterschrieben. ...
Distinguished Lectures at HZB: Prof. Jürgen Janek will give talk about the...
The search for new and the development of improved electrochemical energy storage systems stimulates world-wide research efforts in both academia and industry. While impressive improvements and cost reductions are still to be expected for lithium ionbatteries ...
HZB-Schülerlabor beteiligt sich am MINT400-Hauptstadtforum
Das Schülerlabor hat am Standort Wannsee im Rahmen des MINT400-Hauptstadtforums einen Workshop zum Thema "Magnetismus und Supraleitung" angeboten. 16 Schülerinnen und Schüler aus ganz Deutschland haben teilgenommen. Am Projekttag wurden Experimente mit ...
Heute schon geforscht? Bernd Rech im Podcast von Welt der Physik
Im wöchentlichen Podcast der Internetplattform "Welt der Physik" spricht Bernd Rech, Leiter des HZB-Instituts für Silizium-Photovoltaik und Sprecher des Helmholtz-Forschungsprogramms Erneuerbare Energien, in der Folge 177 über aktuelle Trends zum Thema ...
My Beamline - Eröffnung einer Fotoausstellung im BESSY-Hauptgebäude
Kevin Fuchs hat im Rahmen seines Fotografiestudiums den Synchrotronring BESSY II und den Forschungsreaktor BER II besucht. Für seine Abschlussarbeit hat er Anlagen und Menschen mit künstlerischem Blick in Szene gesetzt. Ab 29. Januar werden die Bilder nun im ...
“VEKMAG” at BESSY II creates 3D magnetic fields in samples
Together with HZB, teams from the Universität Regensburg, from the Freie Universität Berlin and from the Ruhr Universität Bochum have jointly set up a unique measurement station at BESSY II: a vector electromagnet consisting of three mutually perpendicular ...
Sixth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting
The annual Joint HZB User Meetings will provide an overview of the many exciting and inspiring research results obtained at our facilities in the past year. The Sixth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting will take place at Berlin-Adlershof from December 3rd ...
2500 Augentumor-Patienten von der Charité mit Protonen am Helmholtz-Zentrum...
Am Freitag, dem 21. November 2014, wurde um 16:10 Uhr die Bestrahlungsserie der 2500. Protonentherapiepatientin, am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Seit 1998 behandelt die Augenklinik der Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus ...
Jahrestagung des ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien
Unter dem Motto "Forschung für die Energiewende – Phasenübergänge aktiv gestalten" fand am 7. und 8. November die Jahrestagung des ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE) im Umweltforum Berlin statt. Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Politik ...
New in situ cell for investigating solid- and liquid-state samples and their...
A team headed by Dr. Kathrin Aziz-Lange has developed a new in-situ cell for X-ray spectroscopy of fluid samples and their interfaces to solid bodies. What is special is the cell contains electrodes that can expose the sample to voltage during or between ...
26 tesla! High field magnet exceeds everyone’s expectations
It’s done! The high field magnet is consistently producing magnetic fields of approx. 26 tesla and staying at this value over extended periods of time. And all this in spite of the fact that 26 tesla exceeds the original 25-tesla goal; in other words, ...
SAVE THE DATE: Adlershofer Science Forum on 11.11.2014 with Poster Session
Please save the date to participate on 11. November 2014 at "Adlershof Science Forum" (AFF) of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and IGAFA. The event is meant to encourage exchange and communication between scientists working at Adlershof.
A Photographer`s Views of Research Facilities
For his final exam, photography student Kevin Fuchs has taken pictures of the reseach facilities BESSY II and BER II and the scientists working there. Swiss born Fuchs now invides for a preview of his pictures and of the photographs of his fellow students on ...
NEAT: The chamber from Spain - HZB future log's latest addition
Since the HZB future log (#HZBzlog) went live in March of this year, there have been a total of 15 episodes on building and developing our future projects. The focus has been on three projects in particular: high field magnet (for a total of seven episodes), ...
Bernd Rech boardmember of the "work group of energy"
Prof. Bernd Rech will speak on recent findings in thin film silicon photovoltaik research at the autumn meeting of the energy work group of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Rech had been elected into the board of the work group earlier this year.
Deutsche Tagung für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen und...
Das HZB ist mit eigenem Stand, Vortrag und Postern präsent auf der Deutschen Tagung für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen und Ionenstrahlen an Großgeräten (SNI). Die dreitägige Veranstaltung findet vom 21. bis 23.09. im ehemaligen Plenarsaal der ...
GDCh zeichnet Sebastian Seiffert aus
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Seiffert erhält eine weitere Auszeichnung für seine Forschungsarbeit. Die Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) hat mitgeteilt, dass Seiffert den Preis für Nachwuchswissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet der Makromolekularen Chemie erhalten wird. ...
BMBF-Staatsekretär Stefan Müller bei BESSY II zu Gast
Seit Dezember 2013 ist Stefan Müller Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär bei der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka. Nun informierte sich Stefan Müller über die Forschung am BESSY II. Der Besuch fand am Mittwoch, den 16. Juli 2014 ...
Australian top-chemist gains Helmholtz International Fellowship to visit HZB...
Prof. Dr. Leone Spiccia from the Monash University Melbourne was awarded the Helmholtz International Fellowship. In addition to the prize money of €20,000 each, he is invited to conduct research at HZB in Berlin and HZDR in Dresden. At HZB he is expected ...
1200 accelerator physicists from around the world meet in Dresden
The world’s largest particle accelerator conference is being held in Germany for the first time, with around 1200 scientists expected to visit the Saxon capital Dresden from 15 to 20 June. The 5th international conference IPAC is the place for experts ...
Matthias May receives the Poster Prize at the Wilhelm und Else-Heraeus Seminar
Matthias May, PhD student at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels, was awarded a Poster Prize at the 562nd WE Heraeus Seminar "From Sunlight to Fuels” for his scientific work. From 11 to 16 May 2014, the participants of the WE Heraeus seminar concentrated ...
Emad Aziz receives Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein-Award
On 29. May 2014, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry has honored Prof. Dr. Emad Flear Aziz with the Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein-Award. Aziz is leading research teams at HZB and "Freie Universität Berlin", where he has built up the Joint Ultrafast ...
X-ray pulses on demand from Electron Storage Rings
HZB physicists recently devised a new method to pick single x-ray pulses out of the pulse trains usually emitted from synchrotron radiation facilities. The technique is very useful to support studies of electronic properties of quantum materials and ...
Das ganze Spektrum der Elektrokatalyse an einem Tag
Am 4. April 2014 lud das Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg (HI ERN) zu seiner ersten wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltung ein. Beim internationalen Symposium "Recent Achievements and Future Trends in Electrocatalysis" präsentierten zehn führende ...
Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen receives a distinguished visiting professorship at...
The president of Chonbuk National University, Suh Geo-Suk, has appointed Prof. Dr. Silke Christiansen "Distinguished visiting Professor” for three years in recognition of her extraordinary services in the field of renewable energies. Christiansen ...
3.800 Menschen besuchten das HZB zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften
"Schau rein, schlau raus" – das Motto der diesjährigen Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften dürfte sich für die Besucher am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin mehr als erfüllt haben. 2.200 Mal öffneten sich am Samstag, dem 10. Mai die Türen des Elektronenspeicherrings ...
Energy efficient LEDs and lasers with Chalcogenide monolayers
As reported by nanotechweb.org, monolayers of certain chalcogenides might be used to make energy-efficient nano-optoelectronics devices, such as LEDs, lasers, solar cells, and high-electron-mobility transistors. Scientists of the University of California at ...
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - 10. Mai, 17 bis 0 Uhr: Besichtigen Sie den...
Der Countdown läuft. Nur noch wenige Tage sind es, bis wir die Türen für Sie zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften öffnen. Hinter den Kulissen ist schon viel los, bis es am Samstag, dem 10. Mai ab 17 Uhr richtig ernst wird: unsere Forscherinnen und Forscher ...
New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature
The Aziz’ team at the Joint Laboratory between Freie Universität Berlin and HZB has built a laser-based tabletop setup which generates ultrashort XUV light pulses and achieves their monochromatization by implementing special reflection zone plates, ...
Even thinner solar cells through use of nanoparticles
Nanostructures could enable more light to be directed into the active layer of solar cells, increasing their efficiency. Prof. Martina Schmid (HZB und Freie Univ. Berlin) has now measured how irregularly distributed silver particles influence the absorption ...
New Thin Film Photovoltaic World Record announced on Conference in Berlin
The 5th International Workshop on CIGS Solar Cell Technology organized bei Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) started with a bang. Katsumi Kushiya by the Japanese company Solar Frontier presented the approximately 100 participants a new world record conversion ...
Ausgerückt: Jugendfeuerwehr Berlin-Zehlendorf besucht Wache 4508
Übungen gehören zum Pflichtprogramm der Jugendfeuerwehr Berlin-Zehlendorf. Doch am 17. März erwartete die Jugendlichen zunächst eine etwas längere Fahrt im Einsatzfahrzeug: Sie besuchten die Werksfeuerwehr am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin - oder wie es bei der ...
The International Summer School Quantsol will inform on basics in photovoltaics...
Registration now open! For the seventh time already young solar energy researchers are invited to attend the International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Quantsol). The school will be held from September ...
Kristalle in Wissenschaft und Technik: Ergebnisse auf der 22. Jahrestagung der...
Die Kristallographie hat enorm zum Fortschritt des 20. und 21. Jahrhundert beigetragen und ein grundlegendes Verständnis von Prozessen in vielen Lebensbereichen ermöglicht. Die Vielfalt der interdisziplinären Wissenschaft zu Struktur und Eigenschaften von ...
Starfotograf Thomas Struth zeigt in seiner aktueller Ausstellung Fotos von...
Nicht nur die Queen und zahlreiche andere Prominente hat Thomas Struth abgelichtet. Der Fotograf, der heute selbst als Star gefeiert wird, hat auch Bilder von BESSY II inszeniert. Dabei hat ihn die Frage geleitet, wie Orte aussehen, wo Menschen an der Zukunft ...
Gaining the best graduates – HZB supports the pre-track phase up to...
Top ranking tertiary graduates are in demand. As incentive to continue on to a PhD programme at HZB, HZB has made its conditions more attractive than ever. As of now, graduates can apply for a grant to cover the "pre-track” period between their ...
International Summer University on Renewable Energies: Registration now open
On behalf of the ISUenergy Scientific & Organising Committee it is a great pleasure to announce the 6th International Summer University on Renewable Energies and to invite your applications for this year's ISUenergy .The ISUenergy2014 will take place from ...
How to use light to manipulate the spin in topological insulators
Researchers at HZB investigated the topological insulator bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy at BESSY II. They found an astonishing difference depending on whether it is illuminated by circularly polarized light in the ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin funds three-month stay abroad during PhD
Anyone looking at a career in science will hear soon enough: Spending time abroad is extremely useful for international networking with peers. It is not always easy to go abroad within the three-year doctorate period. And, until now, it has been even harder ...
Graffiti im Hörsaal: Die Künstler Gerrit Peters und Heiko Zahlmann gestalten...
Ein leuchtendes Gelb, eine riesige Welle und starke Lichtpulse. Das Wandbild, das die Graffiti-Künstler von getting up, Gerrit Peters und Heiko Zahlmann, im Hörsaal am Standort Wannsee gemalt haben, ist eine Aufforderung zum Betrachten und Entdecken. In ihrem ...
Light-induced degradation in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells
Researchers at the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB) have taken a leap forward towards a deeper understanding of an undesired effect in thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon – one that has puzzled the scientific community for the last 40 years. ...
Am 13. Februar 2014 treten drei Nachwuchsforscher beim Dissertationspreis...
Auch in diesem Jahr ist für den Dissertationspreis Adlershof eine Nachwuchsforscherin nominiert, die am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin promoviert hat. Dr. Nicole Welsch untersuchte bei Prof. Dr. Matthias Ballauf (HZB), wie Proteine auf neutralen sowie geladenen, ...
#HZBzlog – the new series highlight – is now online. Don’t miss an episode!
Television is not the only source for exciting stories told episode by episode. The Internet is suited more than ever. The first project of this kind is not a thriller or your daily soap opera, but comes instead from the world of science. Presented in HZB ...
Türkischer Minister für Wissenschaft besuchte Adlershof und BESSY II
Der türkische Wissenschaftsminister Fikri Isik war in Berlin eingeflogen, um gemeinsam mit der Bundesforschungsministerin Johanna Wanka, am 23. Januar das deutsch-türkische Wissenschaftsjahr 2014 feierlich zu eröffnen. Im Rahmen seines Besuchs besichtigte ...
Magnetic switch gets closer to application
Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism close to room temperature by using low electric fields. Their results are inspiring for future applications in low-power spintronics, for ...
High-Field Magnet crossed the finish line at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
The High-Field Magnet (HFM) for diffracting neutrons entered the gates of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Wannsee on 23 January 2014 at 9am, where the project team headed by Dr. Peter Smeibidl enthusiastically accepted delivery. The journey for the roughly ...
From a carpet of nanorods to a thin film solar cell absorber within a few...
Research teams at the HZB and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which lets kesterite grains grow within a few seconds and at relatively low temperatures. For this reaction they exploit a transition from a ...
Die Vermessung von Molekülen: Physiker der Uni Graz spüren Elektronenzustände...
Seit der Formulierung der Quantenphysik vor gut hundert Jahren träumen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler davon, die quantenmechanischen Orbitale von Elektronen in Atomen, Molekülen und Festkörpern zu messen. Denn diese Orbitale bestimmen die chemischen ...
HERCULES has started: European collaboration will pave the way to the next...
Sixteen leading European research institutes, universities and partners from industry have joined forces in order to collaborate closely on the development of next generation of crystalline silicon based solar cells and modules. Together they proposed a ...
Today: "HZB Distinguished Lectures": Prof. Joachim Stöhr will give a talk
We would like to draw your attention to the "HZB Distinguished Lectures" and invite you to this. Prof. Joachim Stöhr from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University will present on 9th December 2013 his thoughts on "The Light Fantastic: ...
Two new postdocs at HZB receive Helmholtz funding
Dr. Daniel Schick and Dr. Katja Höflich have achieved success in the Helmholtz postdoctoral programme. They will each be receiving "starting capital” of 300,000 EUR for the next three years in order to further establish themselves in their research ...
Recognition for Research on Smart Microgel Particles: Chemist Dr. Sebastian...
The chemist Dr. Sebastian Seiffert has been chosen to receive the prestigious Reimund Stadler Award for his work in polymer science. Seiffert does research at Freie Universität and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on "smart” microgel particles. The ...
Martina Schmid is Junior Professor at Freie Universität Berlin
The head of the Helmholtz junior group "Nano-Optical Concepts for Photovoltaics” (NanooptiX) at HZB, Dr. Martina Schmid, was appointed as junior professor at Freie Universität Berlin (FU) on 2 December 2013. Alongside her research at HZB, she will be ...
Humboldt Research Award brings Stephen P. Cramer to Berlin
The renowned synchrotron spectroscopy expert Professor Stephen P. Cramer has received a Humboldt Research Award and may now spend up to one year cooperating closely with a team at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Freie Universität Berlin. Cramer was ...
Markus Scholz received Ph. D. with "summa cum laude"
These materials are insulators which display metallic conductivity at their surface. The topological aspects lead to a protection of the metallic states towards distortions of the system and permit, in principle, a dissipationless transport of current. Hence, ...
HZB part of new metal oxide/water systems CRC
A team of HZB researchers is part of the new collaborative research center, "Molecular insights into metal oxide/water systems" funded by the German Research Association. As part of this CRC, Dr. Bernd Winter of Prof. Dr. Emad Aziz's junior research group ...
Anbau an BESSY II im Rekordtempo: EMIL hat jetzt ein Dach über dem Kopf
Das Forschungsgebäude für das neue Labor EMIL an BESSY II nimmt Form an: Am Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2013, ab 13 Uhr feiert das "Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin" Richtfest. Die Zeremonie findet auf dem Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Campus des ...
Geschäftsführung übergab Patenturkunden an Erfinderinnen und Erfinder aus dem...
Um ein Problem zu lösen, müssen Menschen in der Forschung oft unbeschrittene Wege gehen. Ist die Lösung dann tatsächlich neu und nicht aus dem vorhandenen Stand der Technik abzuleiten, kann aus der Erfindung noch mehr entstehen: ein Patent. Jedes Erfinderteam ...
Resumption of full scientific operation at BESSY II delayed
While the lengthy summer shutdown with its comprehensive updating and maintenance work has been completed as planned, there have been some unforeseeable disruptions that will delay the resumption of regular Top-Up operations at present. The scientific ...
Neutron Summer School for the study of hydrogen storage materials
An international group of students and scientists recently completed Margarita Russina’s second ever Neutron Summer School program. Just like last year, the Summer School took place in mid-September on the HZB’s Wannsee campus, offering ...
Technology Transfer Prize for development of an optimised cutting tool
Dr. Manuela Klaus and Prof. Dr. Christoph Genzel have won the HZB Technology Transfer Prize awarded 17 October 2013. In collaboration with the Walter Company, they developed a new method for analysing and establishing the relationship between the structure ...
Wiederaufnahme des Messbetriebs nach Sommershutdown:
Seit Anfang der Woche läuft der Messbetrieb am Berliner Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II wieder. Damit ist der planmäßige neunwöchige Sommer-Shutdown 2013 beendet. Er stand in diesem Jahr unter besonderer Aufmerksamkeit, denn an BESSY II wird das große ...
High field magnet for neutron scattering has made its way to Italy
After five years of manufacture, the superconducting spool for the new high field magnet for neutron scattering finally took off from Atlanta, USA, inside the belly of an MD-11F Lufthansa cargo plane on October 9, 2013, at 3:00 am EST. The plane landed in the ...
Türen auf für Kinder am 3. Oktober: Maustag an BESSY II
Am Donnerstag, den 3.10.2013 findet in Deutschland wieder der große "Maus-Tag" statt, an dem speziell solche Einrichtungen ihre Türen öffnen, die normalerweise für Kinder nicht zugänglich sind. Auch das HZB macht mit und lädt Kinder ab 4 Jahren in die große ...
World Record Solar Cell with 44.7% Efficiency
With a solar cell efficiency of 44.7%, scientists around Dr. Frank Dimroth at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity. They used a new solar cell structure with four ...
Göttingen scientists use BESSY II to decode basic mechanism underlying...
Enzymes are life’s molecular catalysts and figure prominently in cellular metabolism. It has been speculated that in the course of a biochemical reaction enzymes physically bend their substrates to split them. Now for the first time ever, scientists at ...
Wettbewerbsbeiträge für den HZB-Technologietransfer-Preis zu besichtigen: Am...
Für herausragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet des Technologietransfers verleiht das HZB am 17. Oktober 2013 zum sechsten Mal den HZB-Technologietransfer-Preis. Er ist mit einem Preisgeld von 5.000 Euro dotiert. Im Vorfeld der Preisverleihung werden die ...
Kooperationsvertrag für Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg unterzeichnet
Die Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), das Forschungszentrum Jülich und das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) gründen gemeinsam das Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien (HI ERN). In Anwesenheit von ...
Prof. Dr. Alan Tennant has accepted a new position
Prof. Dr. Alan Tennant has been selected as the new Chief Scientist for the Neutron Sciences Directorate, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will start in his new capacity there in November 2013. "We are proud to have had Alan Tennant working with us for ...
International Conference in Neutron Scattering: HZB-contributions awarded
More than 800 participants had gathered for the International Conference in Neutron Scattering, held during 8-12 July 2013 in Edinburgh, to discuss advances in neutron research and the advancement of the neutron scattering instruments and techniques. A ...
1000th protein structure decoded at BESSY II
In July of this year, the 1000th protein structure based on measurements obtained at BESSY II was published. The molecule in question belongs to a class of proteins called sirtuins, which are involved in aging, stress, and metabolic processes within the human ...
Die Bauarbeiten beginnen: BESSY II erhält Anbau für neuen Laborkomplex
Mit einem feierlichen Spatenstich beginnen am Montag, dem 5. August 2013 um 16:00 die Bauarbeiten für das neue Forschungslabor EMIL an BESSY II: Das "Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory Berlin", kurz EMIL, wird als hochmodernes Präparations- und Analyselabor ...
The best of two worlds: Solar hydrogen production breakthrough
Using a simple solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide, HZB and TU Delft scientists have successfully stored nearly five percent of solar energy chemically in the form of hydrogen. This is a major feat as the design of the solar cell is much ...
First Observation of Undulator Photon Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum
For the first time researchers of HZB observed 99eV photons carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM). The photons were detected in the 2nd harmonic off-axis radiation of a helical undulator. The measurements confirm a theoretical prediction from five years ...
Grating manufacture at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin scores breakthrough - Sawtooth...
The Technology Center for Optical Precision Gratings at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has scored a breakthrough in the manufacture of these optical building elements. Gratings are used in photon sources to diffract light and filter out those wavelengths ...
Festkolloquium zu Ehren von Prof. K. Heinz Lindenberger
Mit einem Ehrenkolloquium möchten die Geschäftsführer des HZB an das Wirken von Prof. Karl Heinz Lindenberger, ehemaliger Geschäftsführer des HMI, erinnern, der im Oktober des vergangenen Jahres verstorben ist. Das Kolloquium findet am 18. Juni um 16:00 Uhr ...
Polymer-coated catalyst protects "artificial leaf"
Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the process yielding hydrogen that can be used for ...
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin beim ScienceTweetup: Aktive Blogger besuchen...
Zum ersten Mal fand parallel zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein ScienceTweetup statt. 20 Twitterer nutzten die Gelegenheit, Labore verschiedener Forschungseinrichtungen zu besichtigen, die sonst der Öffentlichkeit selten zugänglich sind. Exklusive ...
3.700 Menschen besuchten das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin zur Langen Nacht der...
Viele Wissenschaftsinteressierte in Berlin hatten sich den 8. Juni 2013 lange im Voraus freigehalten. An diesem Samstag strömten 29.000 Menschen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften, um sich mit Forschern zu unterhalten, Vorträge zu hören und Eindrücke von den ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin stärkt Aktivitäten zur Forschung an solaren Brennstoffen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Gestern hat der Senat der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft seine Zustimmung gegeben für die Ansiedlung eines neuen Helmholtz-Instituts zur Erforschung Erneuerbarer Energien in Erlangen und Nürnberg, kurz HI ERN. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie ...
Berliner gewinnt beim Jugend-Forscht-Bundeswettbewerb. Er entwickelte eine...
Bereits zum zweiten Mal ist der 21jährige Informatikstudent Bundessieger beim Jugend-forscht-Wettbewerb in Leverkusen geworden. Er gewann in der Kategorie Geo- und Raumwissenschaften. Petrasch entwickelte eine Alternative zu kostspieligen Satelittenaufnahmen. ...
Discovery of how a key enzyme of the spliceosome exerts its controlling function
To sustain life, processes in biological cells have to be strictly controlled both in time and in space. By using the MX-Beamline of synchrotron radiation source BESSY II research workers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and ...
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am HZB: Wir öffnen für Sie am 8. Juni von 16 bis...
Am 8. Juni öffnen wir für Sie zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften unsere Türen – in Wannsee und Adlershof. 250 HZB-Mitarbeiter, darunter viele Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, werden mit am Start sein: Sie freuen sich darauf, Ihnen hautnah ...
HZB-Forscher Ahmed Ennaoui in den Vorsitz von IRESEN gewählt
Marokko liegt im Sonnengürtel der Erde, nutzt bislang aber noch hauptsächlich importierte fossile Brennstoffe, um den Strombedarf zu decken. Doch das Land will die Forschung zu Solarenergie verstärken. Eine wichtige Rolle dabei wird das Institut IRESEN ...
Posterpreis auf Internationaler Teilchenbeschleunigerkonferenz an Julia Vogt
Vom 12. bis 17. Mai tagte in Shanghai, China, die 4. Internationale Konferenz für Teilchenbeschleuniger (International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC13). Rund 1.200 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern aus aller Welt hatten sich versammelt, um sich über ...
RUB physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
"Of great technical interest for future hard disk drives” Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to ...
Girls‘ Day 2013: 95 Mädchen stürmen das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
95 junge Mädchen zwischen 10 und 15 Jahren sind am Girls‘ Day, den 25. April 2013, zum Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin gekommen. Sowohl am Standort Wannsee als auch am Standort Adlershof konnte das HZB-Schülerlabor viele Wissenschaftlerinnen und Mitarbeiter ...
In der Dünnschicht-Photovoltaik liegt enormes Potenzial - Experten für...
Die Krise in der Solarbranche ist noch nicht durchgestanden. Chinesische Unternehmen dominieren mit Billigpreisen den Markt für Solarmodule, aber auch in Asien können viele Unternehmen dem Wettbewerbsdruck nicht standhalten. Einen Wettbewerbsvorteil können ...
Ultrafast Spin Manipulation at THz frequencies
The demands for ever increasing speed of information storage and data processing have triggered an intense search for finding the ultimately fast ways to manipulate spins in a magnetic medium. In this context, the use of femtosecond light pulses – the ...
Über den Wolken: Messdaten aus der Stratosphäre mit Wetterballons gewinnen
Der Informatik-Student Julian Petrasch siegte beim Berliner Landeswettbewerb "Jugend forscht" in der Kategorie Geo- und Raumwissenschaften – und hat damit auch gleich den Fahrschein für den bundesweiten Ausscheid im Mai in Leverkusen in der Tasche. Das ...
Mit Mathematik die Sonne besser nutzen - das Virtuelle Institut „Mikrostruktur-Kontrolle für Solarzellen“ am HZB schafft breites Expertennetzwerk
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) koordiniert seit kurzem ein Virtuelles Institut, das sich intensiv und mit einem breit angelegten Forschungsansatz modernen Solarzellen widmet. Es ist ein Schulterschluss von Forschern aus verschiedenen ...
Real time observation of chemical reaction at catalyst
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used LCLS, together with computerized simulations, to reveal surprising details of a short-lived early state in a chemical reaction occurring at the surface of a catalyst ...
Kathrin Lange erhält Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis 2012
Dr. Kathrin Maria Lange erhält für ihre am HZB angefertigte Dissertation den Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis 2012. Der mit 2500,- Euro dotierte Preis wird von der Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gesellschaft zu Großbothen e.V., der Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für ...
International summer school Quantsol conveys basics of photovoltaics and solar...
For the sixth year in a row, future solar researchers are invited to attend the HZB’s International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion – Quantsol. The summer school program is scheduled for September ...
Organic Electronics - How to make contact between carbon compounds and metals
Organic electronics has already hit the market in smart-phone displays and holds great promise for future applications like flexible electroluminescent foils (a potential replacement for conventional light bulbs) or solar cells that convert sunlight to ...
PD Dr. Silke Christiansen verstärkt Energieforschung
Die Werkstoffwissenschaftlerin PD Dr. Silke Christiansen leitet ab Januar 2013 am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin das neue Institut "Nanoarchitekturen für die Energiewandlung". Damit baut das HZB die Solarenergieforschung weiter aus. Für den Aufbau des Instituts ...
Klaus Lips ist Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Klaus Lips hat den Ruf auf die W2-Professur "Analytik für die Photovoltaik" am Fachbereich Physik der Freien Universität Berlin angenommen und wurde im Dezember 2012 offiziell ernannt. Gleichzeitig ist Klaus Lips wissenschaftlicher Leiter des ...
Graphene on Nickel: Electrons behave like light
Dr. Andrei Varykhalov and his colleagues in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader investigated at BESSY II the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene and achieved an astonishing result. They could show that the conduction electrons of the graphene ...
Femtoslicing facility successfully upgraded: New opportunities in ultrafast...
Ultrashort X-ray pulses are an indispensable tool to visualize ultrafast processes in solids and liquids. In order to generate them at the BESSY II storage ring employing Femtoslicing, ultrashort laser pulses co-propoagate with the relativistic electrons in ...
Virtuelles Institut „Mikrostrukturkontrolle für Dünnschichtsolarzellen“...
Kürzlich ist das Virtuelle Institut "Mikrostrukturkontrolle für Dünnschichtsolarzellen" (MiCoTFSC) feierlich unter Beteiligung aller Partner an den Start gegangen. Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin koordiniert diese Forschungskooperation, die mit Mitteln aus dem ...
Neue deutsch-russische Forschungsgruppe zu Topologischen Isolatoren
Der HZB-Physiker Dr. Andrei Varykhalov war mit seinem Antrag auf Förderung einer "Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group" erfolgreich. Mit diesem Programm fördert die Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft seit 2006 zusammen mit der "Russian Foundation for Basic Research" ...
Einstein Stiftung finanziert Postdoktoranden
Die Einstein Stiftung Berlin stellt rund 300.000 Euro für einen "Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow" zur Verfügung, der das Team um Prof. Dr. Emad Flear Aziz verstärken wird. "Damit kann ich einen promovierten Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus dem Ausland ...
Forscher zeigen mit Berechnungen, dass kompakte Laser-Plasma-Beschleuniger möglich sind
Ultrakurze Pulse aus kohärentem Röntgenlicht sind ein fantastisches Mittel, um Einsichten in atomare oder molekulare Reaktionen zu gewinnen. In Freien-Elektronen-Lasern können solche Pulse im Femtosekundenbereich (10 -15 sek) erzeugt werden. Doch bislang sind ...
HZB-Zeitung "lichtblick" infomiert über Neuigkeiten und gibt Einblicke in den...
Die neue HZB-Zeitung "lichtblick" ist erschienen. In der aktuellen Ausgabe nehmen wir dieses Mal unsere Nachwuchsgruppen in den Fokus. Fünf junge Forscherinnen und Forscher entwickeln am HZB mit kreativen Ideen eigene Ansätze und Konzepte weiter. Wir erzählen ...
Graphene switches: HZB research group makes it to first base
Ever since graphene was first isolated a few years ago, this quasi-two-dimensional network made up of a single layer of carbon atoms has been considered the magic material. Not only is graphene mechanically highly resilient, it also provides an interesting ...
HZB-Wissenschaftler kooperieren in Forschung und Lehre: Dr. Atoosa Meseck...
Dr. Atoosa Meseck wird vom 25. November bis 10. Dezember 2012 eine Blockvorlesung über "Beschleunigerphysik" an der Universität Uppsala halten. Die habilitierte Physikerin forscht am Institut für Beschleunigerphysik am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und nimmt ...
Sebastian Gerischer erhält Posterpreis auf dem 7. Internationalen Workshop der...
Sebastian Gerischer, Ingenieur in der Abteilung Probenumgebung, wurde für seine Arbeit mit dem "Michael-Meißner-Posterpreis" ausgezeichnet, der auf dem "7th International Sample Environment Workshop" verliehen wurde. An dieser Veranstaltung nahmen mehr als 60 ...
HZB Science Photowalk – Lutz Bassin’s vacuum chamber photograph submission is...
In August 2012, for the first time ever, the Helmholtz Centre Berlin took a group of hobby photographers on a photographic tour of the Centre’s labs and synchrotron radiation source. Nearly 400 submissions by 40 photographers were entered into the ...
Festkolloquium anlässlich des 2000. Patienten bei der Augentumortherapie
Die Protonentherapie von Augentumoren wird in Deutschland nur vom Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin gemeinsam mit der Charité Berlin angeboten, vor kurzem wurde der 2.000. Patient behandelt. Bei ihrem Grußwort auf dem Festkolloquium am 11. Oktober 2012 würdigte ...
BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe für Christiane Becker
Dr. Christiane Becker wird am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) eine neue BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe aufbauen, um nano- und mikrostrukturierte Silizium-Bauelemente für Anwendungen in der Photovoltaik und der Photonik zu entwickeln. Unter dem Titel "Die Nano-SIPPE" hat ...
Maus-Türöffnertag am Synchrotron BESSY II
70 Kinder und noch mehr begleitende Erwachsene kamen am 3. Oktober 2012 zum Maus-Türöffnertag an das Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin am Standort Adlershof, um einen Blick auf die Arbeit der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler zu werfen. Anlass war ein Aufruf ...
X-ray laser FLASH uncovers fast demagnetization process
With the help of free-electron laser FLASH at the Helmholtz Research Centre DESY, an international team of researchers has recently described a most surprising effect that can result in faster demagnetization in ferromagnetic materials. This effect could be ...
21 summer students from across the world are doing research at the HZB
HZB's eight-week summer program is popular with students of physics and materials science. As in previous years, this year there was a high demand for the twenty-one available spots in the program. Through September 27, the summer students will be working ...
Neutronenquelle BER II in Berlin-Wannsee öffnet am 14. September Türen für...
Am Freitag, den 14. September von 14 bis 19 Uhr lädt das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin am Standort Wannsee zum diesjährigen Tag der offenen Tür ein. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Besichtigungen und Informationen rund um die Neutronenquelle BER II. Nach den Umbauarbeiten ...
Science Photo Walk: Sechzig Hobbyfotografen nahmen die besten Motive in den...
Für alle Beteiligten war der Science Photo Walk, zu dem das HZB erstmalig Profi- und Amateurfotografen nach Adlershof eingeladen hatte, ein voller Erfolg. Ina Helms, Leiterin der Abteilung Kommunikation, sagt: "Wir wollten das neue Veranstaltungsformat ...
Prof. Alan Tennant has won the Europhysics Prize, Europe’s foremost prize for...
Tennant was honored for the experimental observation of magnetic monopoles using neutron scattering at the Berlin research reactor BER II. He shares the 2012 prize with 5 other scientists "for the prediction and experimental observation of magnetic monopoles ...
Tiefer Röntgenblick zeigt: Supraleiter sind komplizierter als gedacht -...
Keramische Supraleiter sind komplizierter als gedacht. Das zeigt eine Untersuchung sogenannter Lanthan-Cuprate mit den Röntgenquellen BESSY II am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) und DORIS III bei DESY in Hamburg. Die elektrischen Strukturen, die sich in dem ...
Green light for photocathodes – BMBF funds joint German-Russian collaboration...
The photocathode electron injector is a significant enabling concept for light sources based on the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) and Free Electron Lasers. Successful operation of such sources require photocathodes with reliable, uniform and long lifetime high ...
Bella Lake has accepted the call to professorship at TU Berlin
The joint appointment procedure of HZB and Technische Universität Berlin is concluded: Bella Lake, head of the department "Quantum Phenomena in New Materials” has recently accepted the call to a W2 professorship. The call follows from the junior ...
Virtual Institute „Dynamic pathways in multidimensional landscapes“ invites for...
From 6th to 10th August 2012, the speaker of the Virtual Institute (VI), Prof. Dr. Alexander Föhlisch, invites associated members of the national and international partners as well as interested colleagues and students to come to Potsdam for the Scientific ...
Researchers find spins acting like real bar magnets in a new material
An international team of researchers from Switzerland, Great Britain and Germany has discovered an excellent new material for studying the behaviour of spins. The researchers have shown that the spins in the colourless salt of chemical formula LiErF4 behave ...
Rutger Schlatmann becomes professor of “solar technology” at Hochschule für...
Rutger Schlatmann has been headed the Competence Centre Thin-Film- and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB) since 2008. Since its very inception, this Berlin establishment has been an instrumental link between publicly financed photovoltaic ...
Focus on materials creep-fatigue: colloid particle as metal atom model
Soft matter turns out to be the ideal basis for investigations of technical materials aging: scientists develop new physical model. Together, materials scientists at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB), their colleagues at ...
Dominic Gerlach receives IEEE PVSC Student Award
Dominic Gerlach was awarded the Student Award of the 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference held in Austin, Texas last week. The IEEE PVSC is the premier technical conference in the USA, covering all aspects of PV technology from basic material science ...
Familienfreundlich: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin bekommt Zertifikat...
Seit Dezember 2011 darf das HZB das Zertifikat "berufundfamilie" für seine familienfreundliche Ausrichtung tragen. Nun bekam es die Urkunde offiziell von Peter Hintze, dem Staatssekretär beim Bundeswirtschaftsministerium, und Dr. Hermann Kues, dem ...
Preis und Preis gesellt sich gern: Simon Kirner und Christiane Stephan mit...
Auf der renommierten Frühjahrskonferenz der Europäischen Materialforschungsgesellschaft (E-MRS) wurden im Mai gleich zwei HZB-Nachwuchswissenschaftler für ihre Posterbeiträge ausgezeichnet. Beide Forscher beschäftigten sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten von ...
HZB an Helmholtz-Plattform für Detektortechnologien und Detektorsysteme beteiligt
Die Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft initiiert eine Plattform, um Detektortechnologien und Detektorsysteme weiter zu entwickeln. Ziel der Plattform – die als Portfoliothema gefördert wird – ist es, Technologien zum Aufbau neuartiger Detektoren für ...
4.500 Besucher besichtigten das HZB bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften
Es war nicht gerade ein lauschiger Juni-Abend. Dennoch ließen sich zehntausende Menschen nicht die Gelegenheit entgehen, eine Nacht lang Wissen zu tanken und die Forschungseinrichtungen in Berlin und Potsdam zu besichtigen. Der Elektronenspeicherring BESSY II ...
Sommerschule zu Erneuerbaren Energien in der Schweiz: Noch können Bewerbungen...
Die Internationale Sommer-Universität zu Erneuerbaren Energien, ISUenergy 2012, findet vom 19.08. bis zum 31.08.2012 im Schweizerischen Falera statt. Master- und Diplomstudenten sowie Doktoranden, die teilnehmen möchten, können sich noch in den nächsten ...
Announcement - International Summer School on Photovoltaics (Quantsol)
The International Summer School on Photovoltaics and New Concepts of Quantum Solar Energy Conversion takes place from 9th to 16th September 2012 in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. Young postdocs, PhD students, and master students can apply by 10th June ...
Physiker beobachten, wie ein Elektron im Festkörper in neuartige Quasiteilchen...
Physiker eines internationalen Forschungsteams haben erstmals beobachtet, wie sich ein Elektron in zwei voneinander getrennte Teile aufspaltet, die jeweils eine bestimmte Eigenschaft des Elektrons tragen: Das sogenannte «Spinon» trägt dann den ...
Henning Döscher mit SKM Dissertationspreis der Deutschen Physikalischen...
Auf der Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft bekam Henning Döscher am 27. März den Dissertationspreis der Sektion Kondensierte Materie (SKM) verliehen. Neben seiner Dissertation floss auch sein auf dem Symposium der DPG gehaltener Vortrag ...
HZB-Pressestelle wird erneut für hervorragende Wissenschaftskommunikation...
Mit dem "schnellsten Film der Welt" gewann die Pressestelle des HZB nach 2010 zum zweiten Mal den idw-Preis für Wissenschaftskommunikation. Der Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) vergibt diese Auszeichnung jährlich für die beste Pressemitteilung des ...
Scientific operations resume at Berlin-based neutron source
After a roughly one-and-a-half-year hiatus, scientific operations have resumed at BER II, the Berlin-based neutron source. In October 2010, BER II was temporarily shut down in order to allow time for extensive retrofitting and maintenance work. The work ...
Atomwanderung im Grenzgebiet: Mit bislang unerreichter Auflösung analysieren...
Dünnschichtsolarzellen werden zukünftig einen großen Anteil am Photovoltaik-Markt haben, davon sind viele Experten überzeugt. Die Zellen aus Kupfer-Indium-Gallium-Selenid oder -Sulfid (CIGSe, CIS) unterscheiden sich in vielen Dingen von der klassischen ...
Energie-Allianz Berlin-Potsdam-Jülich: Forschung verspricht völlig neue...
Das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und das Forschungszentrum Jülich bilden zusammen mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Universität Potsdam und der Freien Universität Berlin eine der drei neuen Energie-Allianzen, die von der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft ins Leben ...
Vorfahren zum Schloss Bellevue: Das HZB darf sich auf der Woche der Umwelt...
Letzte Woche bekam das HZB die offizielle Zusage, dass es bei der Leistungsschau für umweltfreundliche Technologien vor dem Schloss des Bundespräsidenten dabei sein wird. Die Veranstaltung findet am 5. und 6. Juni statt. Etwa 550 interessierte Unternehmen und ...
Keine Abschaltpläne für Forschungsreaktor
Anders als der Tagesspiegel heute berichtet, gibt es keine Abschaltpläne für den Forschungsreaktor in Wannsee. Ursache dieser missverständlichen Meldung ist eine unzulässige Umkehr der Aussagen der Sprecherin. Die richtige Aussage ist: "Die Neutronenquelle ...
Wie Plastik durch fremde Moleküle leitfähig wird - Mechanismen bei der...
Das Dotieren anorganischer Halbleiter stellt die zentrale Grundlage der modernen Elektronik dar. Dabei werden Halbleitermaterialien, wie beispielsweise Silizium, kontrolliert mit Fremdatomen verunreinigt, wodurch sich die Leitfähigkeit präzise einstellen ...
HZB und Charité Berlin unterschreiben unbefristeten Vertrag zur Fortsetzung der...
Die Charité Berlin und das HZB behandeln seit 1998 Patienten, die an einem Augentumor erkrankt sind, mit Protonenstrahlen. 2007 hatte die Charité die Federführung für diese spezielle Therapie übernommen, die für Patienten erhebliche Vorteile mit sich bringt. ...
Neues Helmholtz Virtuelles Institut feierlich eröffnet
Mit einem Festakt an der Freien Universität Berlin wurde am Montag, dem 19. Dezember, ein neues Helmholtz Virtuelles Institut (HVI) eröffnet, an dem neben dem federführenden Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht in Teltow (HZG) und der Freien Universität Berlin auch ...
HZB entitled to carry the certificate “Job and Family” from the non-profit...
HZB intends to become more family-friendly and help employees balance work and family. Since May 2011, HZB has been under the scrutiny of the "Job and Family” audit of the non-profit Hertie Foundation. External advisors have been accompanying the ...
Three-Dimensional Characterization of Catalyst Nanoparticles
Catalysts will forever be a part of modern technology. They are crucial to industrial chemical processes, are fundamental to low-emission cars and will be essential for energy production inside next generation fuel cells. In a cooperative between Helmholtz ...
Tiny, Tailored Magnets - CeNIDE Researchers Publish in “Nature Communications”
Nanomagnets are used in many places nowadays, from medicine to data storage. Sometimes they have to be strong and and sometimes they have to be weak. Researchers from the Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE) at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have found out ...
Shedding Light on Luminescence - Scientists at HZB reveal the structure of a...
Fluorescent proteins are important investigative tools in the biosciences: Coupled to other proteins, they help us to study the processes of life inside cells and organisms at the molecular level. Fluorescent proteins are made to light up at specific target ...
Zwei HZB-Bilder gewinnen Fotowettbewerb des europäischen Neutronennetzwerks NMI3
Martin Kreuzer reichte ein Foto vom Neutronen-Instrument BioREF mit einer ungewöhnlichen Perspektive ein – und gewann damit prompt den ersten Preis beim Fotowettbewerb von NMI3. Sein Foto wird den Titel der Novemberausgabe des Magazins Inside NMI3 ...
The large-scale project EMIL (Energy Materials In-situ Laboratory Berlin) will...
Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin and the Max Planck Society are going to build a new, dedicated X-ray beamline together at the synchrotron source BESSY II, which will be used for analysing materials for renewable energy generation. The new large-scale project has ...
Messmethoden im Vergleich: Wie dünne Schichten für Solarzellen am besten...
Alles Gute ist nie beisammen. In der Welt komplexer Geräte gilt dies in besonderem Maße. Will man beispielsweise einen neuen Fernseher oder ein Smartphone kaufen, nutzen deshalb viele Konsumenten vergleichende Bewertungen wie zum Beispiel von Stiftung ...
Ein Sensor für Wasserstoffbrückenbindungen
Wissenschafter des Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) haben einen Sensor für die Wasserstoffbrückenbindungen in flüssigem Wasser gefunden. In Röntgenspektren fanden sie einen Peak, der empfindlich auf das Brechen von Wasserstoffbrücken reagiert. Sie publizieren ...
Erster Nachweis für Viren in der Erdgeschichte: Paget-Krankheit bei...
Den Paläontologen Florian Witzmann und Oliver Hampe vom Museum für Naturkunde Berlin gelang in Kooperation mit Wissenschaftlern der Charité und des Helmholtz-Zentrums Berlin für Materialien und Energie eine aufsehenerregende Entdeckung: An einem 150 Millionen ...
Der Traum von der Zusammenarbeit wird wahr - Berliner Wissenschaftler mit ERC...
Der Physiker Prof. Dr. Emad Flear Aziz, Wissenschaftler am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) und an der Freien Universität Berlin, wird mit einem "ERC Starting Grant" des Europäischen Forschungsrates ausgezeichnet. Dieser umfasst eine Förderung von 1,5 Millionen ...
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel ehrt HZB-Auszubildende im ABB-Ausbildungszentrum
Am vergangenen Freitag wurde im Beisein von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel das Ausbildungsjahr 2011/2012 im ABB-Ausbildungszentrum in Pankow feierlich eröffnet. Im Rahmen der Feierstunde am 2. September wurde auch die ehemalige HZB-Auszubildende Katrin ...
Forschungscampus Dahlem: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und Freie Universität Berlin rücken zusammen
Goran Krstin, Pressesprecher des Präsidenten der Freien Universität Berlin, Telefon: 030 / 838-73106, Telefax: 030 / 838-473106, E-Mail: goran.krstin@fu-berlin.deHannes Schlender, Stabsstelle Kommunikation, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie ...
Erfolgsgeschichte mit Fortsetzung - 10 Jahre Deutsch-Russisches Labor
Eine Erfolgsgeschichte feiert Geburtstag: Das Russisch-Deutsche Labor an der Speicherringanlage BESSY II des Helmholtz-Zentrums Berlin in Adlershof wird zehn Jahre alt. Die Einrichtung, in der Wissenschaftler zum fundamentalen Verständnis der Struktur von ...
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin weist Behauptungen des ARD-Magazins Kontraste zurück
Als Betreiber der Forschungsneutronenquelle BER II weisen wir die Behauptungen des ARD-Magazins «Kontraste» scharf zurück. In der aktuell verschickten Pressemitteilung verschweigt das Magazin, was der TÜV-Bericht tatsächlich schreibt, nämlich, ...
Böswillige Falschaussagen im ARD-Magazin Kontraste
Im ARD-Magazin Kontraste trat am Donnerstag abend ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter auf, um aufbauend auf Halbwahrheiten und Lügen seinen früheren Arbeitgeber zu diskreditieren. Das HZB hatte dem früheren Leiter der Werkstatt fristlos gekündigt. Die in der Sendung ...