Press Releases / Pressemitteilungen

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.

Visionen der Zukunft aus dem Blickwinkel von Kindern und Jugendlichen - Eröffnung der interaktiven Containerausstellung „Der Visiomat“

Published on Sat, 15 Sep 2018 in PRESS RELEASES

Wissenschaftsjahr 2018 – Arbeitswelten der Zukunft

Wie wird sich Arbeit in der Zukunft verändern? Welche neuen Berufe werden entstehen? Wie lässt sich Einkommen gerecht verteilen und welchen Einfluss haben Roboter auf unsere Arbeit? Diesen Fragen sind Kinder und Jugendliche aus fünf Schulen in und um Dresden in Kunst- und Wissenschaftsworkshops nachgegangen. Die von ihnen erarbeiteten Forschungsergebnisse und Visionen sind in Form von Videoinstallationen, Skulpturen oder Performances in das Projekt „Der Visiomat – ein künstlerisches Forschungsarchiv zu den Arbeitswelten der Zukunft“ eingeflossen.

Heute wurde die interaktive, mobile Containerausstellung auf dem Gelände des tjg. theater junge generation eröffnet. Das als Kooperation des cfaed - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden an der TU Dresden und des tjg. theater junge generation entstandene Projekt ist Teil des Wissenschaftsjahres 2018 und kann von Mitte September bis Ende Oktober 2018 an drei Standorten in Dresden besichtigt werden.

Festive inauguration of the new building for the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)

Published on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 in PRESS RELEASES

Handing over the "key" for the new building :-)

Today, Dr. Matthias Haß, Minister of Finance, and Dr. Eva-Maria Stange, Minister of Science, handed over the keys to the cfaed Cluster of Excellence facilities in the Barkhausen building to the Rector of TU Dresden, Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen. The opening of the new TU Dresden building enables the cluster to bring together a large number of researchers in one location.
The design of the office spaces and the highly sophisticated laboratories not only creates a single space for collaborative research, but the new building itself is located in the immediate vicinity of the Andreas-Pfitzmann building, the Hermann-Krone building and the adjacent institutes and departments that are of crucial importance to the cfaed. The Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering as well as the School of Science have their main facilities right next door. Interdisciplinary research requires physical proximity and effective communication: this is precisely what the new building offers to cfaed.