Franck Aveline, Vice President Consumer Product Line, Garmin (formerly Sunpartner):

"Our partners at HZB have understood our concerns and have  supported us with their expertise and technical capabilities in the field of thin-film photovoltaics over the past years. This cooperation is a new step we are taking together to bring Wysips® solutions to market," said Franck Aveline, Vice President Consumer Product Line at Sunpartner Technologies.

Benefits for our partner Garmin

• HZB provides Garmin with ready-to-install prototypes and pre-production components.
• HZB ensures a smooth transfer to Garmin's series production by on-site technologist support.

HZB's contribution

• Technology supplier of the solar cells in Wysips® Reflect.

Dr. Simon Kirner, Development, Oxford PV

"The collaboration has gone very well for us as Oxford PV so far. We have always received the bottom cells and the measurement results from the HySPRINT innovation lab very quickly. The cooperation with HySPRINT is very valuable for us, because in this way we receive very timely statements about the quality of the tandem solar cells, which support our own research work and led to very high efficiencies. Within the framework of this collaboration, we have succeeded in acquiring another large funding project ('ProTandem'). We look forward to further collaboration."

Advantages for our partner Oxford PV

• HZB develops functional layers in close collaboration with Oxford PV's own experts.
• HZB develops and transfers pre-qualified processes into Oxford PV's production.
• HZB performs contract measurements in close coordination with Oxford PV.

HZB's contribution

• Technology supplier of individual functional layers in perovskite silicon tandem solar cells.

Dr. Jens Heufelder, the senior medical physicist at Charité - University Medicine Berlin

 "Irradiation with protons is a particularly effective method:  The energy of the proton beam can be adjusted so that practically only the tumor receives the radiation. Since the protons have a straight trajectory, lateral scattering is much lower than with X-rays."

Advantages for our partner Charité

• The treatment team has access to a patient-friendly environment at the large-scale research facility on the Wannsee campus.
• In 97 percent of cases, the tumor can be completely destroyed by irradiation with protons, and in most cases not only the eye but also the vision is preserved.

HZB's contribution

• HZB provides a proton beam with an energy, intensity and stability that is optimally suited for proton therapy.

Quote from a press release issued by RI:

“At RI in Bergisch Gladbach we are currently setting up the beam test facility to demonstrate the feasibility of the LightHouse electron accelerator. As electron source we use a photocathode, where a pulsed green laser beam (515nm, 40W) hits a carefully prepared bi-alkali antimonite film releasing pulses of electrons into the vacuum. Preparing such photocathodes is an art in itself, but thanks to the close collaboration with Cornell University and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin we have mastered the vacuum vapor deposition and learnt how to fabricate the photocathodes ourselves."

Advantages for our Partner Research Instrument:

• HZB provides RI with the know how and experience of the scientists from the accelerator research unit
• Unique test facilities at HZB can validate the newly developed technology

HZB's contribution

• Technology consulting for the production of photocathodes
• Technology consulting for use of laser pulses for release of electron pulses
• Coupler tests in the Superconducting rf Electron Accelerator laboratory (SEAlab)