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Silicon carbide has been undergoing testing for several years within the research sector as a promising alternative material in the semiconductor industry. In the SiC Modul project, the power semiconductor is now to be put on the road to industrial production.

The world’s most productive consortium working in the field of panel-level packaging is ready to take the next step: After the successful conclusion of its two-year venture, the consortium is embracing new members and exciting new research avenues.

More than 200 participants from around the world met in Berlin from September 18-20, 2019 for the 3rd Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) conference. As usual, the event, this time organized by Fraunhofer IZM in cooperation with Technische Universität Berlin, offered a strong scientific program with 3 keynote speeches, 11 workshops, 105 oral and 20 poster presentations arranged in 5 parallel tracks.

The Transformative Science research prize, endowed with 25,000 euros, has now been offered three times by the Wuppertal Institute and the Zempelin Foundation in the Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Humanities and Sciences in Germany (Stifterverband).

Start-ups, partners and other interested parties from the industry and hardware sector came together this week for a special kind of workshop: a tech safari with various stand-alone stations allowing participants to experience the journey from idea to product.

Fraunhofer IZM opened its doors on Friday for a very special celebration in honour of 70 years of the Fraunhofer Society. Under the motto of „70 Years of Future – #WHATSNEXT“, the people of the Institute used the occasion to reminisce and to look ahead to a bright future for their work.

The L3MATRIX project delivered a solution to challenges related to scaling, latency and the optical reach, enabling a smooth transition to low-cost and low-power Pb/s scale networks.

Which paths will be followed in the future in photonics? And which technologies require IoT and big data applications, medical technology and lighting? To discuss these issues, more than 150 CEOs and CTOs gathered at the World Photonics Technology Summit in Berlin on August 29 and 30. As a first highlight, more than 40 delegates visited the Fraunhofer Institutes HHI and IZM.

Fairphone, a pioneer in ecologically and socially compatible manufacturing of smartphones and long-standing project partner of Fraunhofer IZM, has just announced their new device, the Fairphone 3.

Greater resolution, sharper images, and more efficient diagnostic processes – this is the promise of an endoscopy capsule developed by Fraunhofer IZM to allow more detailed small intestine diagnostics.