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Power electronics and digitalisation as the key to grid stability

Cooperation between Fraunhofer Institute ISIT and Kiel University strengthens innovation in microelectronics for the energy revolution and medical technology

EU Awards €7.8 Million to Develop Next-Generation Power Systems for Green Shipping

For the second time in a row, Fraunhofer ISIT wins the competition for the highest customer acquisition in January.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (ISIT) has received the award for the best customer acquisition of December 2024. The winners are Shanshan Gu-Stoppel, Björn Jensen, Christian Beckhaus and Fabian Lofink. 

Chip innovations from Itzehoe for Europe: Minister President Daniel Günther hands over € 5.2 million grant to Fraunhofer ISIT for the APECS pilot line

CEA-Leti and Fraunhofer promote memory technologies for EU Chips Act

Fraunhofer Institutes IISB, ISIT and IMS Showcase Together the Next Generation Power Electronics.

The world of silicon technology opens its doors for Girls' Day:

Girls dive into the world of microchips

Fabian Falk, an apprentice in the Microsystems Technology department at Fraunhofer ISIT, was honored for his outstanding achievements at the "Ehrung der Besten 2023". 

Fraunhofer ISIT is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Fabian Lofink to the professorship for Materials and Devices in Microsystems Technology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel. 

The FH Westküste University of Applied Sciences has appointed Dr. Shanshan Gu-Stoppel as an honorary professor. The renowned researcher from Fraunhofer ISIT will contribute her expertise to the Master's degree program "Microelectronic Systems" in particular.

As part of the go-live event on February 22, 2024 at the IZET Innovation Center, around 70 location partners and regional players kicked off the location brand and the "InnoQuarter Itzehoe" online presence.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology has announced that it has successfully developed a solvent-free technology for battery electrode production.

Annual savings in megatons of greenhouse gas emissions in industry and mobility through intelligent power electronics with novel gallium nitride semiconductors in motor controllers.

Nanoparticles and plastic are to be detected simultaneously using a combination of high-tech filters and a standardizable design.

The IEEE honors Prof. Marco Liserre with the Power electronic society (PELS) Award "R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award" for outstanding research in the technical field of power electronics.

Kiel University and Trinity College Dublin receive €2.5 million EU funding to develop particularly reliable and sustainable transformers.

Novel ferroelectric material enables smaller and better semiconductors for microelectronics.

Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck has given the go-ahead for the establishment of a qualification center for battery specialists by handing over a funding decision in Itzehoe.

With their enormous power density, laser beams can weld and cut steel plates, polish workpieces or build up entire engine blocks layer by layer from metal powder in 3D printing. Highly reflective layers make it possible to use micromirror scanners in MEMS technology for precise path control.

Together with partners from industry, Fraunhofer IGD and ISIT have been working on an intelligent solution for implementing an AR display on a ship's bridge in order to process, filter and display all relevant data for ship operations in the future.

In addition to the first author Sarah Cwalina from Fraunhofer HHI, ISIT employees Norman Laske and Dr. Shanshan Gu-Stoppel received the award for their joint work "Coherent LiDAR with 2D quasi-static MEMS mirror scanning".

Medical technology is a highly regulated field where reliability and safety are essential. For this reason, many medical devices are operated with cable connection or long-established primary batteries. This has safety advantages, but sometimes severely limits flexibility. The trend here is also toward battery-powered systems. However, the lithium-ion battery technology available today does not yet meet the required safety standards. Fraunhofer ISIT has addressed this issue and is developing accumulators that meet the high standards of medical technology.

In the Fraunhofer lead project NeurOSmart, five institutes (ISIT, IPMS, IMS, IWU, IAIS)* are jointly researching a particularly energy-efficient and intelligent sensor for the next generation of autonomously acting systems. After just under a year of project work, the Fraunhofer researchers will present the expected sensor system and the hybrid, neuromorphic data processing pipeline at Electronica.

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the 11th Microtec Nord took place at Fraunhofer ISIT in Itzehoe on September 29, 2022. The topic Intelligent Systems - Learnable Hardware and Software met with a great response, with around 100 participants discussing the application areas of artificial intelligence.

The competence center Green ICT @ FMD for resource-conscious information and communication technology has officially been launched. The Fraunhofer and Leibniz Institutes, including Fraunhofer ISIT, which cooperate in the Research Factory Microelectronics Germany (FMD), are involved in Green ICT@FMD and form a cross-location competence center.

There is a change in the institute management at Fraunhofer ISIT. The Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has appointed Prof. Dr. Holger Kapels as managing director of the institute. In this position, he succeeds Prof. Dr. Axel Müller-Groeling, who is moving to the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich.

Lithium-ion batteries have become an indispensable part of our everyday lives. They power our cell phones and laptops, are installed as an energy source in electric vehicles and, as large stationary battery systems, provide the power supply and storage for many industrial applications.

LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an indispensable key technology in the development of autonomous driving cars. LIDAR systems use emitted laser beams to very accurately detect their surroundings and generate a precise image.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology operates state-of-the-art production lines for processing silicon with a processing accuracy in the nanometer range. These precise structure generation processes have now been successfully transferred to other materials. The shaping of various types of glass has proven to be particularly significant. After all, with the integration of optical functions into the world of microsystems, the packaging of components and systems at wafer level (WLP) is facing new and exciting challenges. Future new applications, such as augmented and virtual reality in lightweight glasses (AR/VR glasses), require the development of small optical packages, which implies a wide variety of design aspects from the optical, electrical and thermal fields.

The handover of the funding decision by Minister President Daniel Günther in Itzehoe is the official kick-off for the establishment of the Research Center for Applied Battery Technology Schleswig-Holstein (FAB-SH).

In the lighthouse project NeurOSmart of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft five institutes under the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT are jointly researching energy-efficient and intelligent sensors for the next generation of autonomous systems. In the process, the bridges between perception and information processing are being redefined by innovative electronics.

The handover of the funding decision by Minister President Daniel Günther in Itzehoe is the official kick-off for the establishment of the Research Center for Applied Battery Technology Schleswig-Holstein (FAB-SH).

In the lighthouse project NeurOSmart of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft five institutes under the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT are jointly researching energy-efficient and intelligent sensors for the next generation of autonomous systems. In the process, the bridges between perception and information processing are being redefined by innovative electronics.

Reliable drive technologies, energy storage and hydrogen as an energy carrier for electromobility - in order to drive forward the energy transition, the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (ISIT) and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) are strengthening their cooperation. For this purpose, the two partners have relaunched the working group "Electronic Energy Systems". Located at Kiel University's Faculty of Technology, the research group will receive a total of five million euros in funding in the first phase - half from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and half from the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The two partners are pursuing ambitious goals: After three years, the working group already wants to be largely self-supporting. The Electronic Energy Systems Group is headed by Professor Marco Liserre.

As the best in all of Germany, Artem Kormann completed his state-recognized training as a microtechnologist. He completed his dual training in microsystems technology and learned how microelectronic, mechanical and optical components are manufactured and analyzed on a microscale.

Sensors have become the ubiquitous companions of our lives. We use them every day to collect, process, and interpret data and help us make sense of the world around us. The Fraunhofer flagship project ZEPOWEL has shown successfully how all of these sensor systems can become extremely energy efficient or even completely autonomous. The potential result: Up to 20% less carbon emissions in Germany alone.

The production of power modules is facing new challenges: It is becoming increasingly important worldwide to be able to economically produce a wide range of variants in small quantities. This is why Fraunhofer ISIT is participating in the FlaMe research project. Together with their partners, the ISIT scientists want to use new technologies in the project and make the process of manufacturing power modules significantly more sustainable.

Micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) offer an innovative and effective development platform for companies willing to address new areas of application thanks to their compact design and efficiency.

Since 1978, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has awarded the prize annually for outstanding scientific achievements by its employees.

Every year, the Free State of Bavaria together with the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft awards the Hugo Geiger Prize, honoring young scientists for outstanding doctoral achievements in the field of applied research. This year, ISIT scientist Dr. Simon Fichtner received the first prize. 

While chlorine and ultraviolet light are the standard means of disinfecting water, ozone is equally effective in killing germs. To date, ozone has only been used as an oxidation agent for treating water in large plants. Now, however, a project consortium from Schleswig-Holstein is developing a miniaturized ozone generator.

Prof. Dr. Holger Kapels succeeds Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wagner in this position, who retired at the end of last year.

It has six corners and is about the size of a 1-cent piece: In an additive manufacturing process, miniature loudspeakers can be produced efficiently and cost-effectively as part of piezoelectric, microelectromechanical systems using a combination of inkjet printing and laser technology.

Four personalities. Four companies. One goal. SHAPING THE FUTURE.

Do you already know how you want to shape your future professional life? I think we can help you with the decision! 

The ProZell Industry Day strengthens the dialog between science and industry. Battery cells are manufactured in many successive process steps. It is mixed, stirred, coated, rolled, cut, stacked.  

On 21.08.2020, the Vice President of the Bundestag and Member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Kubicki visited Fraunhofer ISIT as part of his tour of the Steinburg district. 

The head of Fraunhofer ISIT, Axel Müller-Groeling, has accepted a professorship at Christian-Albrechts University and is now Professor for "Microsystems and Technology Transfer" at the Faculty of Technology.

The top research institutions in Schleswig-Holstein are now moving closer together. This week, they founded the "Alliance for Top Research in Schleswig-Holstein".

Today, Fraunhofer ISIT was all about girls and MINT professions. MINT stands for mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology.

Also this year, Fraunhofer ISIT presents itself at the Photonics West in San Francisco. Under the heading "Micro-Actuators for Optical Applications" we offer information and services on three different topics

At this year's NORTEC Hamburg 2020 we will be at the joint stand "Electronics Production" with the main topic "Quality and Reliability of Electronic Assemblies and Systems".

At the world's leading trade fair for photonics components, systems and applications, Fraunhofer ISIT presents current research topics under the headline Micro-Actuators for Optical Applications.