Press Releases / Pressemitteilungen

Organic Solar Cells and Light-emitting Diodes United: TUD Physicists Enlighten Us

Published on Fri, 05 Apr 2019 in PRESS RELEASES

(Press release from TU Dresden; Deutsche Version unter "read more")

In the past 25 years of research on organic semiconductors, it was thought that organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) could not be combined in a single device. A team of physicists headed by Prof. Koen Vandewal from Technische Universität Dresden has now succeeded in manufacturing an organic solar cell that simultaneously functions as an efficient OLED. Their findings were recently published in the internationally renowned journal Nature Materials.

Startschuss für das Forschungslabor Mikroelektronik Dresden am cfaed-Kooperationsinstitut NaMLab

Published on Tue, 05 Feb 2019 in PRESS RELEASES

Im ForLab DSCT der TU Dresden werden Anlagen für die interdisziplinäre Erforschung von Schaltungen aus Nanodrähten aufgebaut. (Quelle: TU Dresden/IHM)

[Pressemitteilung der TU Dresden]

Am 5.2.2019 erhält die TU Dresden die Förderurkunde für ihr „Forschungslabor Mikroelektronik Dresden für rekonfigurierbare Elektronik" (ForLab DCST) vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). Insgesamt starten zwölf Forschungslabore Mikroelektronik Deutschland (ForLab). Das Dresdner Forschungslabor wird bis Ende 2021 mit 5,61 Mio. Euro gefördert und übernimmt die Koordination aller zwölf Forschungslabore.

Invisible tags: Physicists at TU Dresden write, read and erase with the use of light

Published on Fri, 01 Feb 2019 in PRESS RELEASES

A luminescent tag, contactless printed onto a plastic foil. The light emitting layer is thinner than a human hair. The imprint can be erased and replaced by another pattern. Image credit: M. Gmelch and H. Thomas, TU Dresden

A team of physicists headed by Prof. Sebastian Reineke of TU Dresden developed a new kind of storing information in fully transparent plastic foils. Their innovative idea is now published in the renowned online journal “Science Advances”.

Prof. Reineke and his LEXOS team work with simple plastic foils with a thickness of less than 50 µm, which is thinner than a human hair. In these transparent plastic foils, they introduced organic luminescent molecules. In the beginning, these molecules are in an inactive, dark state. Using ultraviolet irradiation, it is possible to turn this dark state locally into an active, luminescent one. By mask illumination or laser writing, activated patterns can be printed into the foil having a resolution comparable to common laser printers. Similar to glow-in-the-dark stickers, the patterns can be brought to shine and the imprinted information can be read out. By illuminating with infrared light, the tag is erased completely and new data can be written into it.

Researchers at TU Dresden Make Breakthrough in Understanding Electrical Conductivity in Doped Organic Semiconductors

Results have just been published in the renowned journal "Nature Materials"

Published on Tue, 29 Jan 2019 in PRESS RELEASES

Press picture: Illustration of an organic semiconductor layer (green molecules) with dopant molecule (purple). (C): Sebastian Hutsch, Frank Ortmann

Researchers from the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at TU Dresden, in cooperation with Stanford University (USA) and the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki (Japan), have identified the key parameters that influence electrical conductivity in doped organic conductors.

No Second Funding Period for cfaed - Nevertheless, Research Continues

Published on Thu, 27 Sep 2018 in PRESS RELEASES

[Deutsche Version unter "read more"]

On 27 September 2018, the Excellence Commission announced the decision on the newly funded clusters within the framework of the Excellence Strategy. The Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) is a research cluster that has already been funded for one funding period within the previous Excellence Initiative and it looks back on many scientific successes from 2012-2018. cfaed has also played a decisive role in strengthening the attractiveness of the location for the local electronics industry and for new developments. With a newly adjusted research program, cfaed planned to build on these results in a second funding period and to follow up on many of the first successes, to lead to further breakthroughs and to link up with the newly added research fields of the program.