– The GSOC National Space Operations Center of the DLR is responsible for transmitting telemetry data, sending commands, and monitoring and controlling the satellite.
– The DLR also provides two instruments onboard the satellite.
– The technology demonstrator ATHENE-1 is a central element of the SeRAN…

The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has expanded its 300 mm technology platform with a highly flexible physical vapor deposition (PVD) system, reinforcing its capabilities in developing CMOS-compatible materials and processes for next-generation quantum computing. Installed in co…

The room hums to the sound of powerful ventilators. In the pale light, Peter Rimpf pulls a full-body coverall with hood over his clothes, steps into clean room shoes and snaps a nitrile glove onto each hand. “A single flake of skin can destroy a dozen chips,” says Rimpf, who heads operations at the…

For AI data centres or quantum computers, nano-transistors need to become ever smaller, better suited to low temperatures and more efficient. In this interview, Professor Daniel Hiller explains how they can be manufactured in the future using nanowires and quantum physics. As a DFG-funded Heisenberg…

A central research facility of the Technical University of Berlin is being prepared for the coming decades: With support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the State of Berlin, the plasma etching system in the cleanroom of the Center for Nanophotonics is being extensively renovated with a…

– PSI physicist Giacomo Sala receives approximately CHF 2.2 million from the European Research Council (ERC).
– In the Q-GEOMSPIN project, he is bringing together two research areas that up to now have largely been studied separately.
– This fundamental research could lead to more energy-efficient dat…

Satellites rely on reliable energy storage: when they pass through Earth's shadow in their orbit, their solar cells cannot generate energy. Batteries bridge these phases and support operation even when onboard, temporarily, more power is needed than the solar cells can supply. In the research projec…

Thanks to AI, machine data becomes accessible to everyone: A research team at the Fraunhofer IPA is working on a generative artificial intelligence system that allows employees to query production and machine data via chat. It visualizes complex data and thus simplifies analysis in everyday work.

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Affordable medicine, rising energy costs, and dependence on strategic raw-material sources make new materials central to many questions. Traditional materials development is time-consuming and often takes years. Fraunhofer ISC is therefore pursuing accelerated development approaches - “Materials Acc…

– Researchers have developed a design principle enabling the creation of complex patterns on silicon chips by way of microfabrication.
– Thanks to these patterns, vibrations follow predetermined paths.
– A material structured in this manner could harvest energy from vibrations or process signals witho…