Temperature and Synchrotron Radiation

Division 7

Warm or cold, light or dark: thermodynamic and radiation physics issues are the focus of Division 7.

Tasks

The main tasks of the approximately 100 employees of Division 7 on the Berlin-Charlottenburg campus are thermometry, thermal energy, cryosensorics, optical radiometry and vacuum metrology.

Metrology with synchrotron radiation , on the other hand, is the field of activity of the approximately 75 employees of Division 7 at the Berlin-Adlershof site with the synchrotron radiation sources BESSY II and Metrology Light Source (MLS).

With its research and development work, Division 7 is involved in the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR), in the future metrological topics of quantum technology, environment and climate, energy, digitization and medicine as well as in the field of nanometrology.

News

IAC 2022 special session 3 of the AEROMET II project

The accurate dimensional and analytical characterization of aerosols - finely dispersed particles in gases such as air - is of increasing importance for environmental research, but also in industry. During the International Aerosol Conference (IAC 2022, https://iac2022.gr/) as well as the French Aerosol Conference...

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Rudolf-Jaeckel-Preis 2023 for Dr. Karl Jousten

Whether for the realization of the low-temperature scale or for processes in the semiconductor industry: Many applications in physics and technology use vacuum technology, and especially the possibility to measure even the smallest pressures precisely and traceably. For his fundamental work in the field of vacuum pressure measurement, Dr. Karl...

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Damit die PTB ihre Aufgaben im Bereich der Metrologie mit Synchrotronstrahlung wieder vollumfänglich erfüllen kann, hat das Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) bereits am 3. Juli den Betrieb von BESSY II exklusiv für die PTB wieder aufgenommen.

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Annual Report 2022

Das Jahr 2022 war für Abteilung 7 wieder sehr erfolgreich. Drittmittel, Veröffentlichungen, und akademische Abschlüsse auf der einen Seite sowie Kalibrierungen, Begutachtungen und Gremienarbeit blieben bei leicht gesunkenem Personaleinsatz auf hohem Niveau. Entsprechend war die Rückmeldung zur Arbeits- und Aufgabenplanung durch das Präsidium durchweg positiv...
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Head of Division

Prof. Dr. Mathias Richter

Head of Division 7 Temperature and Synchrotron Radiation since 2019
Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the Technical University Berlin since 2004
Chairman of the Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. since 2012
Member of the board of the Initiativgemeinschaft Außeruniversitärer Forschungseinrichtungen in Adlershof e. V. (IGAFA) since 2021
Member of the board of the Physical Society of Berlin (PGzB) since 2020
Member of the council of the German Physical Society (DPG) since 2021

Joined the PTB in August 1995
Habilitation in experimental physics at the Technical University Berlin (1990 to 1996)
Postdoc at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg and at the Université Paris-Sud XI (1988 to 1990)
Doctorate in physics at the University of Hamburg (1984 to 1988)
Diploma in physics at the University of Hamburg (1984)
Abitur in Marburg a. d. Lahn (1978)