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The E-MAP consists of a closed system in which robotically automated material experiments are conducted under protective atmosphere. (Image: Holger Röhm, KIT)
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  • Electronics (wafers, semiconductors, microchips,...)

New research platform at KIT investigates materials for thin-film photovoltaics and other optoelectronic applications independently

Automated laboratory accelerates material development

Systematically investigate, evaluate, and targetedly develop thousands of material variants – this is made possible by the new Energy Materials Acceleration Platform (E-MAP) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It combines automated experiments with precise material characterization, layi…
One in a million: Artificial intelligence helps scientists in their search for new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. (Photo: Kurt Fuchs/HI ERN)
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  • Artificial intelligence

Published in Science: Researchers Show How Machine Learning Can Greatly Accelerate the Search for New Semiconductor Molecules for Perovskite Solar Cells

Finding Better Photovoltaic Materials Faster with AI

Perovskite solar cells are a flexible and sustainable alternative to conventional silicon-based solar cells. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are part of an international team that was able to find – within only a few weeks – new organic molecules that increase the efficien…
At IAMT, Dr. Siqi Liu researches electrochemical oxidation and membrane separation for water treatment. (Photo: IAMT, KIT)
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  • Cleaning | procedures, devices, agents, media (Wipers, Swaps,...)

Researchers at KIT investigate removal of microcontaminants in electrochemical membrane reactor with carbon nanotube membrane

Water treatment: Nanotubes capture steroid hormones

Steroid hormones are among the most common microcontaminants in water. They harm human health and disrupt the ecological balance of water bodies. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have investigated how the breakdown of steroid hormones works in an electrochemical membrane re…
For top-level research in chip design, the KIT Chipdesign House is being established on Campus South. (Photo: Edelweiss – Fotolia) / The KIT Chipdesign House to be established on KIT’s Campus South will boost cutting-edge chip design research. (Photo: Edelweiss – Fotolia)
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  • Science

Chipdesign House at KIT Founded at KIT – Institution to Accelerate Cutting-edge Chip Design Research in Baden-Württemberg

KIT Chipdesign House to Boost European Chip Production

Be it smartphones, computers, or cars: Nearly all modern technologies are based on powerful microchips. Demand by far exceeds production in Germany. Leading semiconductor manufacturers are mostly based in Asia and North America, from where they supply producers worldwide with their microchips. In or…
Pilot line of an agile, modular battery cell manufacturing in the Karlsruhe Research Factory. (Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT) With guests from business, science, and politics, representatives of the involved ministries and KIT symbolically opened the new agile battery cell manufacturing line in the Karlsruhe Research Factory by cutting a ribbon. (from left to right: Stefan Jung, BMBF; Jürgen Fleischer, KIT; Ronny Feuer, MWK; Joachim Knebel, KIT) (Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT)
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  • Battery

A robot-based and modularly constructed, agile production system enables the future production of customer-specific battery cells in the required quantities as needed.

Worldwide first agile battery cell manufacturing opens

Battery cells – for example for electromobility or power tools – to be produced more flexibly in the future, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have established an agile battery cell manufacturing process. Based on highly flexible robot-based automation, they have achieved…
Cutting-edge research in optics and photonics needs special clean rooms for sensitive components. (Photo: Sandra Göttisheim, KIT) At the new KCOP, about 2,000 square meters of highly modern clean room and laboratory areas will be available to researchers as of 2026. (Image: Nickl & Partner)
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  • New building

Karlsruhe Center for Optics and Photonics Sets Standard and Uses Synergies – Interdisciplinarity Pushes Exchange and Innovation

Optics and Photonics: High-tech Center for KIT

The Karlsruhe Center for Optics and Photonics (KCOP) is taking shape. At the new, highly modern technology center of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), research teams will work on applications of light or photons. These include highly efficient photovoltaics, 6G communication and glass fiber n…
Photocatalytic membrane filtration system with solar simulator. The membranes are coated with titanium dioxide. (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT)
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  • Ultrapure media (water, ...)

Researchers at KIT use titanium dioxide-coated polymer membranes for photocatalytic cleaning – Nature Nanotechnology publishes results

Water treatment: Light aids in the breakdown of hormones

Micropollutants in water often consist of hormones that accumulate in the environment and can negatively affect humans and animals. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification (IOM) in Leipzig have developed a process for the photocat…
Professor Helge Stein explains Minister Theresia Bauer a part of the new material acceleration platform. (Photo: Daniel Messling, KIT) Start of the new high-tech facility: Professor Michael Weber, President of the University of Ulm, Professor Maximilian Fichtner, Professor Joachim Ankerhold, Vice President of the University of Ulm, Minister Theresia Bauer, Professor Oliver Kraft, Vice President of KIT for Research, as well as Tenure-Track Professor Helge Stein. (from left to right; Photo: Daniel Messling, KIT)
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  • Battery

A new high-tech research facility at the POLiS Excellence Cluster accelerates battery development – Visit of the Minister of Science at the launch

Battery research: Start of the first fully automated laboratory

Around-the-clock battery assembly, analysis of thousands of interfaces, autonomous evaluation of results using Artificial Intelligence (AI), and immediate planning of the next experiment: a new facility at the Excellence Cluster POLiS automates and digitizes material development. The autonomous rese…
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