Here you will find all publicly funded projects in which Fraunhofer IZM is involved.
One terabit of data per second: This is the ambitious target set for the 6GKom project, pursued by a crack team of German research institutes and universities that are investigating the new vistas opened up by the next-generation mobile communications standard 6G. The mission of the project is to envision the fundamental hardware for communicating at frequencies above 100 GHz.
ADMONT
The European project ADMONT provides a novel approach for innovation in all sectors. It has no specific focus on particular end markets so Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial, Food Processing, Health, Safety, ICT and various other end markets can benefit. ADMONT supplies system integrators with a modular system for combining distinct technologies at wafer level while providing a vital and necessary platform for new products. This encompasses not only process technology but also design and modelling capabilities. ADMONT aims to reduce manufacturing times for base components to 75 % and reduce system costs to 70 % of what can be achieved today. Electronics-based products will benefit from increased innovation speed and hence accelerate time to market. This will bring the benefits of innovation to the full value chain, both from a production perspective and from an end user perspective.
Developing packaging and interconnection technologies for the competitive production of highly integrated microelectronic and optoelectronic systems.
Continued innovation and the development of new nano-electronic technologies depend on cutting-edge facilities. The ASCENT+ taps into the resources of a rich and diverse network of science and industry partners to offer open access to this vital infrastructure for nano-electronics.
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The project is developing a biosensor for the qualitative and quantitative for fast, reliable, on-site diagnostics of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections.
The GlaRa project develops a high-reliability technology platform that combines sensor systems with high-speed signal processing and high-frequency data transmission.
Coupling the evanescence field between neighbouring waveguides allows the performance-dependent splitting of optical fields and opens up new design options.
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Introducing Agriphotonics: Smart laser systems and AI-driven image recognition for a digital agriculture 4.0.
The highly integrated camera-plus-radar module allows sensor systems to adapt flexibly to conditions for autonomous vehicles on the road and beyond.
MASSTART aims to provide a holistic transformation to the assembly and characterization of high speed photonic transceivers towards bringing the cost down to €1/Gb/s or even lower in mass production. This will guarantee European leadership in the Photonics industry for the next decade.
PEKOS
The project is dedicated to the development of new processes and machines for a novel form of packaging in microelectronics: panel-level packaging.
PoC-BoSens
Label free photonic sensing platforms are recently revolutioning Point of Care diagnostic methods allowing high sensitivity and high compactness needed for fast and reliable detection of infectious and autoimmune diseases . PoC BoSens is a transnational project that contributes to the development of a portable device based on an array of high sensitive photonic microresonators.
PoC-BoSens
Researchers at Fraunhofer IZM have teamed up with TecVenture, Optrontec Inc., and KAIST to produce an innovative and robust high-speed camera with a multi-lens and polarization filter array for images with an extended depth of focus.
OCTAPUS (Optical Circuit switched Time sensitive network architecture for high-speed Passive optical networks and next generation Ultra-dynamic & reconfigurable central office environments) is a 3.5-year long H2021 research project aiming to deliver an agile, low-cost and energy-efficient PIC technology framework that will re-architect the NGCO ecosystem, transparently upgrading its capacity to 51.2Tb/s and beyond, through an innovative optically-switched backplane and transceiver toolkit.
Radar and passive tags can be combined to locate and connect objects in everyday life or even objects and people moving in interior contexts. The researchers on the OmniConnect project are using so-called secondary radar to share not only data about the location and movement of an object, but also additional information that can be used to connect the objects in a virtual network.
ECSEL Joint Undertaking
Within the framework of the EU Position II project, 45 European companies and research institutions are working under the coordination of Phillips to integrate medical technology applications even better into digital processes through "smart" electronics.
The objective of the QuantumCascade project is the design of a multispectrum MIR light source as an easily integrated system component for use in applications that work with mid-infrared light. The system should be usable without requiring particular knowledge of the complex technology behind multispectrum light sources. This makes it available for commercial enterprises from other fields, e.g. medical technology, facilitating the development of innovative systems without the risk of having to design a stable and controlled light source of this type.
The SaltEtch project is giving life to an innovative system for glass etching by molten salt, raising the bar for process flexibility and production precision when compared to current technologies.
Sens4Bee – Monitoring colony health with RFID sensors capturing data in beehives and on individual bees.
Silicon carbide semiconductors, packaged for high-temperature applications, have the potential to increase switching frequencies and output substantially in future power electronics, while making them less susceptible to failure.
SPeeD
As part of SPEED, two types of 400Gb/s transceivers are being designed on silicon ICs to serve applications both between and within data centres.
TPL
The Textile Prototyping Lab is Germany’s first and premier open lab for high-tech textiles. With its complete prototyping infrastructure and competent interdisciplinary team, the TPL is the perfect place for sophisticated and complex textile projects.
Founded as a shared research initiative of five organizations dedicated to textile and electronics research, design, and modern business, the Textile Prototyping Lab considers itself an open, agile, and interdisciplinary space for textile prototyping. Its mission and principle is: open innovation.
As part of the project, Fraunhofer IZM developed and established a modular pop-up lab for prototyping e-textiles.
VE-REWAL
May 1, 2021, was the launch day of the three-year project “Realizing Trustworthy Complex Systems with Wafer-Level Packaging - VE-REWAL”, led as a combined effort by the University of Bremen’s Institute for Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics. The project intends to explore concepts for a platform for trustworthy electronics with a novel system partitioning approach, suitable system packaging technology, and secure communication between the system’s components. A 77GHz-Radar MIMO application was chosen as test case for a chiplet design for radar ICs, investigated in FOWLP form, as a complete assembly, and in active use.
EU-funded project for the development of a toolbox technology platform for faster, more economical, and more impactful medical technology
One terabit of data per second: This is the ambitious target set for the 6GKom project, pursued by a crack team of German research institutes and universities that are investigating the new vistas opened up by the next-generation mobile communications standard 6G. The mission of the project is to envision the fundamental hardware for communicating at frequencies above 100 GHz.
The HiBord project is exploring novel vehicle wiring topologies for use in highly or fully autonomous vehicles.
The highly integrated camera-plus-radar module allows sensor systems to adapt flexibly to conditions for autonomous vehicles on the road and beyond.
AMWind
Making power electronics more reliable used to mean going back to the drawing board and optimizing materials, structures, and processes. For real reliability in regular operations, modern condition monitoring concepts are offering their operators a new choice.
The KorSikA team is adding to our current understanding of the corrosion behaviour of power electronics in offshore wind farm applications, focusing in particular on sintered joints.
Smartphones for Life? Modular Designs for Circular Products Lifecycles
Modular smartphones have the unique ability to upgrade to keep pace with technology’s progress and changing consumer habits. This gives the devices a longer useful life, which means fewer phones need to be produced and their ecological footprint can be reduced.
Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM