On the move into application: Optoelectronic systems on thin glass
The recently launched KODOS project (“Konfektionierter Dünnglas-Verbund für optoelektronische Systeme”, Thin Glass Composites for Optoelectronic Systems), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is designed to transform thin glass...
Fraunhofer starts development of refrigerant-free, energy-efficient electrocaloric heat pumps
In the Fraunhofer ElKaWe lighthouse project, six Fraunhofer Institutes are developing highly efficient electrocaloric heat pumps, which do without harmful refrigerants.
GLASS4FLEX – pioneering new process technologies for flexible glass in optical systems
Ultra-thin glass – one human hair thick – is ideally suited as a material for mass production of optical components and parts as well as for encapsulating optical and optoelectronic systems. Its production requires a completely coordinated process chain – from manufacture to functionalization. This is the goal to be accomplished by 2022 in the GLASS4FLEX joint research project.
Standards of food safety and food quality have never been higher in Germany and throughout the European Union. This is especially true in the dairy industry. Yet despite such high standards, traces of impurities, pesticides and antibiotics can find their way into milk, with sometimes serious consequences for consumer health. In the EU-funded project MOLOKO, Fraunhofer researchers have teamed up with partners to develop a new optoplasmonic sensor designed to provide fast, on-site analysis of safety and quality parameters for milk.
BiClean – Smart antibacterial surfaces using bidirectional display technology
Within the framework of an internal funding project, the Fraunhofer FEP has been developing a novel approach for the automated detection and inactivation of biofilms. First results will be presented at parts2clean (October 22 – 24, 2019 in Stuttgart, booth no. C31, hall 9).
Switch2Save: A leap forward in smart windows and glass façades
On October 1, 2019, the EU-funded initiative “Switch2Save” has been launched to improve the availability and affordability of electrochromic and thermochromic smart glass technologies.
Extending the functional lives of biological heart valve prostheses
The newly in-house developed process, called SULEEI, makes it possible to sterilize and preserve decellularized pericardial tissue by means of photo-initiated ultraviolet crosslinking with low-energy electron irradiation. The complex procedure is under evaluation in cooperation with the department of cardiac surgery belonging to the heart center of the university hospital as part of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and will be presented at the XPOMET Festival taking place in Berlin on October 10–12, 2019.
At the International Symposium on Automotive Lighting 2019 (ISAL) in Darmstadt from September 23 to 25, 2019, the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP, a provider of research and development services in the field of organic electronics, will present OLED light strips of any length with additional functionalities for the first time at booth no. 37.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP is working on innovative solutions in the fields of vacuum coating, surface treatment as well as organic semiconductors.
Fraunhofer starts development of refrigerant-free, energy-efficient electrocaloric heat pumps
Heat pumps play a decisive role in the energy transition: Sustainably generated electricity provides heat in winter and a good climate in summer. Nowadays, heat pumps work almost exclusively on the basis of compressor technology. Compressors require harmful refrigerants, the use of which will be restricted even more by law in the future. In the Fraunhofer ElKaWe lighthouse project, six Fraunhofer Institutes are developing highly efficient electrocaloric heat pumps, which do without harmful refrigerants.
GLASS4FLEX – pioneering new process technologies for flexible glass in optical systems
Ultra-thin glass – one human hair thick – is ideally suited as a material for mass production of optical components and parts as well as for encapsulating optical and optoelectronic systems. Its production requires a completely coordinated process chain – from manufacture to functionalization. This is the goal to be accomplished by 2022 in the GLASS4FLEX joint research project.
CES is the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. A high-level business event that touches all industries, it’s the place where business gets done.
The workshop originated in Sankt Peter-Ording 2012 as rather informal meeting of German and Czech research groups focused on nanoparticles formed in low temperature plasma and their applications. Since that time, three workshops were already organized in Prague 2014, Lübeck 2016 and České Budějovice 2018. The next workshop will be held in Dresden.
Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP