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Kirill Klein has won the Young Engineer Award of PCIM Europe 2020 for his paper on “Low Inductive Full Ceramic SiC Power Module for High-Temperature Automotive Applications”.

The CHARM ECSEL JU project aims to develop industrial IoT solutions with an improved tolerance towards harsh industrial surroundings. Digitalisation of the European manufacturing industries is the key to their continuous renewal and competitiveness. Harsh environmental conditions in manufacturing processes and end user environment may slow down the opportunities brought by IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence). The CHARM project is set to solve this challenge.

Although life cycle assessments do not save the environment, it can make industry think, as the example of life cycle assessments for electronics shows.

The Coronavirus Pandemic has confronted all of us with a challenge of historic proportions. The emergency task forces of the Fraunhofer Society and Fraunhofer IZM are continuing to monitor the situation and translating the official guidelines into new guidance for our operations to protect both the health and wellbeing of our people and the services and performance of our Institute.

On May 31, 2020, Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID in Dresden celebrated its tenth anniversary. This decade has seen IZM-ASSID transcend the borders of Germany with its achievements in the field of wafer level system integration, especially 3D integration, and become a globally renowned R&D partner.

Mid-April saw the virtual kick-off of the »power4re« (Reliable converters for a renewable energy supply) research project. Under the leadership of the Fraun-hofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, five Fraunhofer institutes are working together alongside industry representatives to develop solutions aimed at improving the reliability and robustness of inverters in photovoltaic systems and frequency converters in wind turbines.

Modular product design is an enabler for longer product lives and repair, and it facilitates their reuse and upgrade, making it a promising approach for more sustainable product concepts.

The BMBF-funded project »GraphPOC« is working towards a point-of-care diagnostic platform based on graphene technology. The ambition of the project is to design a purely electrical system that can recognize certain biomarkers in human blood and distinguish between bacterial, viral, or fungal infections.

Bosch wants to launch a new rapid test that shows a result at the test site in under 2.5 hours instead of the previous 2 days. This technical solution is based on a PoC analysis platform, which was developed together with Fraunhofer IZM in the EU project CA-JAL4EU.

The corona pandemic presents us with major challenges. Infection numbers are increasing exponentially and in recent days more and more countermeasures have been ordered by the authorities.