HZB Newsroom

Battery research with the HZB X-ray microscope

BESSY II: New procedure for better thermoplastics

Hydrogen: Breakthrough in alkaline membrane electrolysers

Alternating currents for alternative computing with magnets

BESSY II: Heterostructures for Spintronics

Green hydrogen: MXenes shows talent as catalyst for oxygen evolution

"BESSY is of immense importance for Berlin"

All BESSY II instruments reconnected to the network

A new way to control the magnetic properties of rare earth elements

HZB magazine lichtblick - the new issue is out!

BESSY II shows how solid-state batteries degrade

Small powerhouses for very special light

New Method for Absorption Correction to Improve Dental Fillings

MXenes for energy storage: Chemical imaging more than just surface deep

New joint leadership for BESSY II

Chilean President visits Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Alkanes, laser flashes and BESSY's X-ray vision

Dynamic measurements in liquids now possible in the laboratory

Key role of nickel ions in the Simons process discovered

IRIS beamline at BESSY II extended with nanomicroscopy

A simpler way to inorganic perovskite solar cells

Spintronics: A new path to room temperature swirling spin textures

BESSY II: How pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries

Fuel Cells: Oxidation processes of phosphoric acid revealed by tender X-rays

Fertilisation under the X-ray beam

The future of BESSY

ERC Consolidator Grant for HZB researcher Robert Seidel

BESSY II: Molecular orbitals determine stability

BESSY II: Local variations in the structure of High-Entropy Alloys

Green hydrogen: Perovskite oxide catalysts analysed in an X-ray beam

Green hydrogen: Improving iridium catalysts with titanium oxides

BESSY II: Neutralising electronic inhomogeneity in cleaved bulk MoS₂

Technology Transfer Prize: Tandem solar cells step closer to industrial pilot...

Diamond materials as solar-powered electrodes – spectroscopy shows what’s...

Spintronics: X-ray microscopy unravels the nature of domain walls

BESSY II: Surface analysis of catalyst particles in aqueous solutions

Quantitative analysis of cell organelles with artificial intelligence

BESSY II: What drives ions through polymer membranes

BESSY II: Experimental verification of an exotic quantum phase in Au2Pb

Spintronics at BESSY II: Domain walls in magnetic nanowires

Graphene on titanium carbide triggers a novel phase transition

How much cadmium is contained in cocoa beans?

SXR2023: Deadline for submissions April 15

Perovskite solar cells from the slot die coater - a step towards industrial...

Superstore MXene: New proton hydration structure determined

TU Berlin appoints Renske van der Veen as professor

Electrocatalysis – Iron and Cobalt Oxyhydroxides examined at BESSY II

HZB physicist appointed to Gangneung-Wonju National University, South Korea

Scientists Develop New Technique to Image Fluctuations in Materials

Recommended reading: Bunsen magazine with focus on molecular water research

High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen

New software based on Artificial Intelligence helps to interpret complex data

New monochromator optics for tender X-rays

BESSY II: Influence of protons on water molecules

LEAPS research infrastructures to tackle societal crises

Spintronics: A new tool at BESSY II for chirality investigations

High entropy alloys: structural disorder and magnetic properties

BESSY II: Localisation of d-electrons determined

40 years of research with synchrotron light in Berlin

New road towards spin-polarised currents

Humboldt Fellow Alexander Gray comes to HZB

Green hydrogen: Nanostructured nickel silicide shines as a catalyst

Buckyballs on gold are less exotic than graphene

Fine particles back into the raw material cycle

Third-highest oxidation state secures rhodium a place on the podium

Potential energy surfaces of water mapped for the first time

Spintronics: Giant Rashba semiconductors show unconventional dynamics with...

Atomic displacements in High-Entropy Alloys examined

Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore visits HZB

Calculating the "fingerprints" of molecules with artificial intelligence

Shutdown at BESSY II: new supply technology ensures long-term operation

Magnetic nanoparticles in biological vehicles individually characterised

Royal visit from Sweden at HZB

Jan Lüning heads HZB Institute for Electronic Structure Dynamics

BESSY Facility Speaker: “I am absolutely thrilled at how international we have...

Perovskite solar cells: Properties still remain enigmatic

Researchers discover why tendons are strong as wire ropes

An ultrafast X-ray glance into photoacid electronic structure

Fermi Arcs in an Antiferromagnet detected at BESSY II

Unravelling tautomeric mixtures: RIXS at BESSY II allows to see clearly

"We can be proud that it worked out": BESSY and the Transregio-SFB on ultrafast...

From Dublin to Berlin as a Humboldt Research Fellow

International research at BESSY II continued even in the corona year 2021

User research at BESSY II: Unveiling the secrets of biofilms

New 12 T magnet on BESSY II’s experimental floor strengthens energy and...

Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize and Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation

Liquid crystals for fast switching devices

Green information technologies: Superconductivity meets Spintronics

Walter-Schottky-Award for Felix Büttner

"Green" chemistry: BESSY II sheds light on mechanochemical synthesis

20 Years Russian-German Joint Laboratory at BESSY II

Spintronics: Exotic ferromagnetic order in two-dimensions

Life Time Achievement Award for Roland Müller

Ultrafast magnetism: heating magnets, freezing time

Portrait Annette Pietzsch: Researching fundamental phenomena of our world

Beam diagnostics for future laser wakefield accelerators

Surface analysis at BESSY II: sharper insights into thin-film systems

Disorder brings out quantum physical talents

Review: X-ray scattering methods with synchrotron radiation

HZB coordinates European collaboration to develop active agents against Corona

Green hydrogen: Why do certain catalysts improve in operation?

Water as a metal - detected at BESSY II

Lead-free perovskite solar cells - How fluoride additives improve quality

Virtual visits at HZB and 360° Panorama

Future information technologies: Topological materials for ultrafast spintronics

Synchrotrons accelerate corona research

BESSY II: universal mechanism of regulation in plant cells discovered

Perovskite Solar Cells: Insights into early stages of structure formation

Renske van der Veen heads new department "Atomic Dynamics in Light-Energy...

BESSY II: New insights into switchable MOF structures at the MX beamlines

“The gain in insights for structural biology has continued for five decades”

MYSTIIC at BESSY II: New X-ray microscope put into operation

Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous...

Virtual tours: Experience the HZB in 360 degrees!

Instrument at BESSY II shows how light activates MoS2 layers to become catalysts

The perfect recipe for efficient perovskite solar cells

World's first video recording of a space-time crystal

An efficient tool to link X-ray experiments and ab initio theory

Solar hydrogen: Photoanodes made of α-SnWO4 promise high efficiencies

HZB and Humboldt University agree to set up a catalysis laboratory

Accelerator Physics: HF-Couplers for bERLinPro prove resilient

Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize and Innovation Award Synchrotron Radiation

Perovskite Solar Cells: paving the way for rational ink design for...

User research at BESSY II: Graphite electrodes for rechargeable batteries...

Future Information Technologies: Germanium telluride's hidden properties at the...

Order in the disorder: density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discovered

University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial...

Carl-Ramsauer-Award for excellent dissertation

HZB & IKZ bundle their competencies In crystalline energy and quantum materials

HZB and TU Berlin: New joint research group at BESSY II

A new cooling tower flying to BESSY's roof

New Materials for Energy Storage: ERC Starting Grant for Tristan Petit

New substance library to accelerate the search for active compounds

User research at BESSY II: Formation of a 2D meta-stable oxide in reactive...

Start your accelerator tour - the Long Night of Science in a different way

BESSY II: Experiment shows for the first time in detail how electrolytes become...

User research at BESSY II: Insights into the visual perception of plants

User research at BESSY II: How new materials increase the efficiency of direct...

04.05.2020 - #Corona: HZB resumes operation step by step

Corona research: Consortium of Berlin research and industry seeks active...

New interaction between light and matter discovered at BESSY II

Corona research at BESSY II: Two days of measuring operation to find the right...

BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses

Coronavirus SARS-CoV2: BESSY II data accelerate drug development

Fast and furious: New class of 2D materials stores electrical energy

New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at HZB

New detector accelerates protein crystallography

X-ray microscopy at BESSY II: Nanoparticles can change cells

Watching complex molecules at work

Topological materials for information technology offer lossless transmission of...

Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Award and Innovation Award for Research in Synchrotron...

Cancer research at BESSY II: Binding Mechanisms of Therapeutic Substances...

X-ray microscopy at BESSY II reveals how antimalaria-drugs might work

Dynamic pattern of Skyrmions observed

FOCUS TOPIC: From MIT to Wannsee

New sample holder for protein crystallography

World record in tomography: Watching how metal foam forms

Archaeology at BESSY II: “Invisible ink” on antique Nile papyrus revealed

FOCUS TOPIC: Using BESSY II to combat plastic waste

Accelerator physics: alternative material investigated for superconducting...

Charge transfer within transition-metal dyes analysed

Utrafast magnetism: electron-phonon interactions examined at BESSY II

Laser-driven Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnets: How does the Angular Momentum flow?

3D tomographic imagery reveals how lithium batteries age

High-efficiency thermoelectric materials: new insights into tin selenide

"Molecular scissors" for plastic waste

HZB contributions to special edition on Ultrafast Dynamics with X-ray Methods

Godehard Wüstefeld receives the Horst Klein Research Prize

Water is more homogeneous than expected

Spintronics by “straintronics”: Superferromagnetism with electric-field induced...

Two new Helmholtz Young Investigator Groups will start in 2019

Outstanding master thesis on the structure and function of a bacterial enzyme...

Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize and Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Award

Milestone for bERLinPro: photocathodes with high quantum efficiency

Delegation from Jordan visited the HZB

Transition metal complexes: mixed works better

Graphene on the way to superconductivity

Nanodiamonds as photocatalysts

Blue phosphorus - mapped and measured for the first time

HZB researchers boost the efficiency of silicon solar cells

Future information technologies: nanoscale heat transport under the microscope

World record: Fastest 3D tomographic images at BESSY II

Insight into catalysis through novel study of X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Shutdown BESSY II: work has started

Helmholtz International Fellow Award for Nils Mårtensson

Dr. Raül Garcia Diez received poster award at the international synchrotron...

Writing and deleting magnets with lasers

BESSY II sheds light on how the internal compass is constructed in...

LEAPS join forces with the European Commission to strengthen Europe’s leading...

HZB scientist got the dissertation prize at the spring conference of the...

Twin Orbit operation successfully tested at BESSY II

Solar–to-hydrogen conversion: nanostructuring increases efficiency of...

Dr. Raul Garcia Diez wins the Dissertationspreis Adlershof 2017

40-year controversy in solid-state physics resolved

User experiment at BESSY II: Complex tessellations, extraordinary materials

Perovskite solar cells: perfection not required!

BER II and BESSY II User Meeting at HZB

Future IT: Antiferromagnetic dysprosium reveals magnetic switching with less...

“Distinguished Award 2017 for Novel Materials and their Synthesis” for Norbert...

Missing link between new topological phases of matter discovered

The use coordination on a EU trip: promoting European light sources

Novel soft X-ray spectrometer enables individual steps of photosynthetic water...

The miracle material graphene: convex as a chesterfield

Breakthrough at EMIL: First undulator radiation in the CAT experiment

Optical control of magnetic memory – new insights into fundamental mechanisms

Kickoff for Joint Lab with IFW Dresden

EU project CALIPSOplus has started for free access to European light sources

New at Campus Wannsee: CoreLab Quantum Materials

New lab for electrochemical interfaces at BESSY II

Three-dimensional graphene: experiment at BESSY II shows that optical...

New Helmholtz Young Investigator Group for electrochemical conversion of carbon...

HZB and Freie Universität Berlin establish the joint research group “X-Ray...

The Young Investigators Workshop 2017 on Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional...

X-Ray microscopy: HZB-TXM is back in operation

Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices

Proton transfer: Researcher find mecanism to protect biomolecules against light...

20 participants join the first Photon School at HZB

Highly sensitive method for detecting ion pairs in aqueous solution developed

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin is establishing a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group...

A new record at BESSY II: ten million ions in an ion trap cooled for the first...

Research for Germany’s energy transition: EMIL@BESSY II approved for the...

Methods at BESSY II: Versatile cross-correlator for ultrafast X-ray experiments

EMIL, a 2000-square-metre laboratory complex, has opened for research into new...

Future Information Technologies: New combinations of materials for producing...

Advancing methodology at BESSY II: Automated evaluation speeds up the search...

VI-Conference "Dynamic Pathways in Multidimensional Landscapes 2016"

Manual of characterisation techniques for thin-film solar cells published with...

User research at BESSY II: How water moves glass

Two Freigeist Fellows interweave their research at HZB

User Community Science: Soft decoupling of organic molecules on metal

New effect on laser induced switching for higher data densities

Coexistence of superconductivity and charge density waves observed

Spintronics: Resetting the future of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Ferrous chemistry in aqueous solution unravelled

Spintronics for future information technologies: spin currents in topological...

Helmholtz Virtual Institute International Conference "Dynamic Pathways in...

Energy Materials: Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu sets up the institute “Functional...

Energy storage materials under pressure

Measuring chemistry: local fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in...

Topological insulators: Magnetism is not causing loss of conductivity

Metal Oxide Sandwiches: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces

A Fast Way of Electron Orbit Simulation in Complex Magnetic Fields

MacQueen is researching into optical energy converters for generating fuels:...

Common platform for macromolecular crystallography at European synchrotrons

Filming microscopic and macroscopic changes within materials

rbb-Inforadio: Andreas Jankowiak im Gespräch über bERLinPro

BESSY II electron highway gets second lane

Poster award to Markus Kubin

Science-Video Wettbewerb: Der vom HZB eingereichte Beitrag aus dem Happy...

Catalysis research strengthened: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin participates in newly...

How to Flow Ultrathin Water Layers - A Liquid Flatjet for X-Ray Spectroscopy

Gemeinsames Treffen der Strukturbiologen in Berlin: der 6. Joint-MX-Day am 23....

Rohbauarbeiten für Beschleunigerhalle am HZB beginnen: Spatenstich für eine...

Milch, Wirkstoff-Taxis und andere kolloide Materialsysteme analysieren: SAS...

BESSY II launches New Filling Pattern in User Mode

Spins in Graphene with a Hedgehog Texture

Freigeist Fellowship for Tristan Petit

Gerd Schneider receives a professorship for "X-ray microscopy" at...

New technique enables magnetic patterns to be mapped in 3D

From Excited Atoms to Functionality – ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Alexander...

Green solutions with diamond materials:

Emergence of a “devil’s staircase” in a spin-valve system

BESSY II - What can I do for you?

Realistic computer model of battery electrodes

Poster award for MatSEC PhD student at the MRS Spring Meeting

New options for spintronic devices: Switching between 1 and 0 with low voltage

Wheel with triple sound velocity for pulse selection at BESSY II

EU funding strengthens solar cell research at HZB

BESSY II is ready for user service

BESSY II changes over to solid state RF amplifiers

Femto-snapshots of reaction kinetics

Susan Schorr named DGK Chair

Baubeginn für Beschleunigerhalle bERLinPro am Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Stretch and relax! – Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium

Insight into inner magnetic layers

Details of a crucial reaction: Physicists uncover oxidation process of carbon...

BESSY II – From Pico to Femto – time resolved studies at BESSY II

Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered

Messages From Space

Dancing BESSY-VSR

“VEKMAG” at BESSY II creates 3D magnetic fields in samples

Batman lights the way to compact data storage

New light shed on electron spin flips

Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors

D-Lecture: A Light and a Beam

Lively exchange at User Meeting

New in situ cell for investigating solid- and liquid-state samples and their...

Root canal treatment procedures investigated at BESSY II

“Multi-spectra glasses” for scanning electron microscopy

German Society for Materials Science awards publication with HZB scientist as co-author

Deutsche Tagung für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung, Neutronen und...

Leading scientists on topological insulators met in Berlin

Proteins: New class of materials discovered

Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into small clusters

DFG-Präsident besucht BESSY II

BMBF-Staatsekretär Stefan Müller bei BESSY II zu Gast

Collecting light with artificial moth eyes

Sharper imaging using X-rays

1200 accelerator physicists from around the world meet in Dresden

X-ray pulses on demand from Electron Storage Rings

Energy efficient LEDs and lasers with Chalcogenide monolayers

New tool for Joint Lab to investigate the chemistry of nature

A new concept for the treatment of cancer

Controlling electron spins by light

How to use light to manipulate the spin in topological insulators

A new cluster tool for EMIL

New holographic process uses image-stabilised X-ray camera

Charge Order competes with superconductivity

Die Vermessung von Molekülen: Physiker der Uni Graz spüren Elektronenzustände...

HZB part of new metal oxide/water systems CRC

Anbau an BESSY II im Rekordtempo: EMIL hat jetzt ein Dach über dem Kopf

Blocking the active site of thiolase

New cavities successfully installed

Resumption of full scientific operation at BESSY II delayed

Technology Transfer Prize for development of an optimised cutting tool

Wiederaufnahme des Messbetriebs nach Sommershutdown:

Festsymposium zur 1000. Proteinstruktur an BESSY II

At an international conference in Berlin, researchers were discussing options...

Göttingen scientists use BESSY II to decode basic mechanism underlying...

Domain walls as new information storage

Better insight into molecular interactions

Researchers from HZB open a door for solid state physics

Ideal nanocrystal produced from bulk plastics

HZB-Forscher stellen Zukunftsprojekte für BESSY II vor

1000th protein structure decoded at BESSY II

Groundbreaking for EMIL

Die Bauarbeiten beginnen: BESSY II erhält Anbau für neuen Laborkomplex

Picosecond accurate slow-motion confirms oxide materials exhibit considerably...

Watching catalysts at work – at the atomic scale

First Observation of Undulator Photon Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

Grating manufacture at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin scores breakthrough - Sawtooth...

Shedding light on magnetoelectric coupling

Watching solar cells grow

Humboldt Fellow new addition to Aziz team

Discovery of how a key enzyme of the spliceosome exerts its controlling function

Posterpreis auf Internationaler Teilchenbeschleunigerkonferenz an Julia Vogt

RUB physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time

Snap shots of one of life's central processes

Ultrafast Spin Manipulation at THz frequencies

Real time observation of chemical reaction at catalyst

Kathrin Lange erhält Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis 2012

Proteinstrukturen besser erforschen

Titanium dioxide nanoreactor

Organic Electronics - How to make contact between carbon compounds and metals

Demagnetization by rapid spin transport

Mit neuem Detektor kleinsten Biomarkern auf der Spur

Graphene on Nickel: Electrons behave like light

MX-Posterprize to Bartosz Sekula, Lodz

Three-day exchange at User Meeting

Forscher zeigen mit Berechnungen, dass kompakte Laser-Plasma-Beschleuniger möglich sind

From sunlight to hydrogen

Neues Labor von Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin und Freier Universität Berlin eröffnet

HZB an Helmholtz-Plattform für Detektortechnologien und Detektorsysteme beteiligt

Monumental effort to save the threatened Viking treasures of Oseberg

Photochemical Turbo Power for Solar Cells

Under cover of graphene

Breakthrough in X-Ray Nanospectroscopy

Tiny, Tailored Magnets - CeNIDE Researchers Publish in “Nature Communications”

Shedding Light on Luminescence - Scientists at HZB reveal the structure of a...

BESSY II besitzt magnetische Anziehungskraft

The large-scale project EMIL (Energy Materials In-situ Laboratory Berlin) will...

Ein Sensor für Wasserstoffbrückenbindungen

Oxygen: Bond breaking in a jumpy way

Erster Nachweis für Viren in der Erdgeschichte: Paget-Krankheit bei...

Der Traum von der Zusammenarbeit wird wahr - Berliner Wissenschaftler mit ERC...

2. Joint Berlin MX Day

Erfolgsgeschichte mit Fortsetzung - 10 Jahre Deutsch-Russisches Labor

Flüssigkeiten im Synchrotron: Mit weicher Röntgenstrahlung der Funktion von...

Fossile Eidechse aus der Grube Messel widerlegt Theorie über Ursprung der...

Synchrotronlicht in bisher unerreichter Qualität: „Wichtiger Schritt auf dem...

Forschern gelingt es, Partikel beim Sintern dreidimensional sichtbar zu machen

Kampf gegen Antibiotika-Resistenzen - Wissenschaftler enttarnen Resistenzprotein

Wichtiger Schritt Richtung BERLinPro: Erster Elektronenstrahl aus SRF...

Nutzerexperiment bei BESSY-II: Ein schneller Schalter für Magnetnadeln

Ultra-Fast Magnetic Reversal Observed

Von 1 auf 500… - 500ste Protein-Struktur an BESSY II entschlüsselt

Terahertz flashes enable accurate X-ray measurements

Exzellenz bei der Lichtbeugung

New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells

Grünes Licht für BERLinPro

LiXEdrom: Innovative measuring chamber for X-ray study of liquid jets

Ein schneller Blick auf komplexe Ordnung

Help from the Dark Side

How soccer ball molecules push their way under surfaces - HZB researchers...

First the orbit, then the spin

Katalase und Methämoglobin: so ähnlich und doch verschieden

Teilchenbeschleuniger und Neutronenquellen im Dienst der Materialforschung

Wie Kreisel auf atomarer Ebene miteinander wechselwirken

Spinons – Confined like Quarks

Outstanding Results on Research in Synchrotron Radiation rewarded

MAXYMUS - Neue Einsichten mit Röntgenblitzen

More than 300 Scientists at SRF 2009 in Berlin

Orbital 2009 - internationaler Workshop am HZB

Zweifacher Erfolg für das HZB bei der SAS-Konferenz

Kristallisationspunkt für Nachwuchswissenschaftler

New Chapter in the Research with Synchrotron Radiation

HZB organisiert erfolgreich ersten Internationalen ASAXS-Workshop

BEST - Eigene Strahllinie für studentische Nachwuchsforscher bei BESSY II...

Ultrakurze Schnappschüsse von Atombewegungen

Emad Flear Aziz Bekhit erhält den Ernst-Eckhard-Koch-Preis

Spot an – vor 10 Jahren ging die Synchrotronstrahlungsquelle BESSY II in Betrieb

Towards imaging ultrafast evolution in a single shot

Qumran-Rollen vom Toten Meer an BESSY II untersucht

Untersuchungen selbstorganisierter Nanostrukturen bei BESSY mit Carl-Ramsauer-Preis ausgezeichnet

Bestnoten für das BESSY FEL Projekt