CoreLabs: Core HZB laboratories for international users and industry

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) operates six CoreLabs as multi-user platforms, and makes complex infrastructures with unique and state-of-the-art equipment available to external academic and industrial partners. The main purpose of these CoreLabs is the research and development of innovative energy materials.

Corelab Energy Materials in-situ Laboratory Berlin (EMIL)

Overview: EMIL

The unique large-scale project EMIL (Energy Materials In-situ Laboratory) is located at the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II. EMIL combines soft, tender and hard x-ray spectroscopic methods with a variety of synthesizing, preparation and characterization methods and allows both simultaneous in-situ and operando measurements at several different stations.
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X-Ray Corelab

Overview: X-ray CoreLab

The X-Ray CoreLab has labs in Wannsee and Adlershof, equipped with several modern diffractometers. X-ray diffractometry is one of the most important analytical methods in materials research. At the HZB, it is used to develop new materials for energy conversion or storage. These methods are suitable for thin-film analysis and the analysis of powder samples and single crystals. Highlights are several MetalJet high flow sources which deliver especially intense X-ray light with excellent brilliancy.
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Corelab Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CCMS)

Overview: Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Latest-generation electron microscopes and scanning electron and ion microscopes are available to researchers in the CoreLab CCMS. These allow materials to be produced, processed and imaged at the nanoscale.
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CoreLab Quantum Materials

Overview: Quantum Materials

The CoreLab Quantum Materials offers instruments and methods for the synthesis and the investigation of new materials relevant for energy and information technologies. The methods are quite general and can be applied to many other material classes. The infrastructure is available to external scientists and also to commercial users.
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HySPRINT Photovoltaics Lab

Overview: HySPRINT Photovoltaics Lab

HySPRINT Photovoltaics Lab (Hybrid Silicon Perovskite Research, Integration & Novel Technologies) develop new material combinations and processes for energy applications.
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Competence Centre Thin-Film- and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB)

Overview: Competence Centre Photovoltaics Berlin

Photovoltaic and catalytic technologies, materials and products are developed at PVcomB together with partners from research and industry. The transfer of technology and knowledge takes place in research projects with industrial partners and through the training of highly qualified specialists.
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