Press Releases / Pressemitteilungen

A novel concept for photovoltaics - developed at TU Dresden

Published on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

computer generated image depicting two crystalline grids being zipped together by a zipper. — Phase heterojunction concept. Author: ©PIXELWG, Jörg Bandmann

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The group of Prof. Yana Vaynzof at the Integrated Center for Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at Technische Universität Dresden has demonstrated a novel concept for solar cells, that exploits the ability of materials to exist in different crystalline phases. The related study has now been published in the renowned journal ‘Nature Energy’.

Nanoelectronics for Immunotherapies: HZDR Cancer Researcher Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Published on Wed, 19 Oct 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

portrait photo of physicist dr. Larysa Baraban in the laboratory — Physicist Dr. Larysa Baraban is awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. ©Copyright: HZDR / A. Wirsig

Congratulations to cfaed Associated Member Dr. Larysa Baraban!

Press release from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 19 Oct 2022

Approximately thirty thousand people die every day from cancer worldwide. What is known as “immunotherapy” is increasingly becoming the scientific focus in the fight against the disease. Together with her team, Dr. Larysa Baraban, physicist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is researching a chip that should ultimately make it possible to develop customized cancer immunotherapies. Her efforts are funded by the European Research Council (ERC) for five years through an ERC Consolidator Grant totaling nearly two million euros.

Good planning gets the bike rolling

Published on Thu, 06 Oct 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

visualisation of route choice schemes of cyclists in urban areas — The route choice of cyclists is subject to various decision factors. For example, many prefer a separate bike lane (top left) instead of sharing space with dense car traffic (top right). Depending on whether streets with heavy car traffic (thick edges) are equipped with dedicated bike paths (blue) or not (gray), cyclists take the direct route (black arrow, bottom left), take detours to stay on bike paths (bottom center) or ride on small side streets (thin edges) (bottom right). Image author: Christoph Steinacker

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Turning it downside up: Novel, network-dynamic planning approach for urban bike path infrastructure enables demand-driven design of cycling networks by reversing the usual approach. The new concept could improve the bike-friendliness of cities - and thus their sustainability and climate footprint.
In surveys, a large majority of respondents usually agree that cycling can make a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gases and to sustainable transport, especially in densely populated areas. In contrast, for many countries in reality there is a large gap between desired and actual numbers. In Germany, for example, only 20% of the short-distance of everyday trips in residential environments are covered by bicycle.

School of Embedded Composite Artificial Intelligence startet zum 1. Juli

Published on Fri, 01 Jul 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

[Pressemitteilung der TU Dresden. SECAI wird von Prof. Markus Krötzsch geleitet, cfaed-Professur für Wissensbasierte Systeme]

Die zum 1. Juli startende „School of Embedded Composite Artificial Intelligence“ (SECAI) ist eine von deutschlandweit drei durch den DAAD geförderten Zuse Schools zur Stärkung von Ausbildung und Forschung im Bereich der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI). Bereits zum Wintersemester werden die ersten Studierenden auf Master- und Promotionsebene hier und an der Partneruniversität Leipzig eine gezielte KI-Förderung erhalten, die bereits vorhandene Lehrangebote und Forschungsaktivitäten in Dresden und Leipzig einbezieht. Bereits eingeschriebene Studierende in KI‑Studiengängen wie „Computational Modeling and Simulation“ (Dresden) oder „Data Science“ (Leipzig) profitieren dabei ebenso von den Angeboten der Zuse School wie jene, die sich erst neu für das Studium an diesen Universitäten entscheiden.

First organic bipolar transistor developed at the TU Dresden

Published on Wed, 22 Jun 2022 in PRESS RELEASES

graphic of an organic bipolar transistor — Organic bipolar transistors can also handle demanding data processing and transmission tasks on flexible electronic elements, e.g. here for electrocardiogram (ECG) data. © Jakob Lindenthal

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Prof. Karl Leo has been thinking about the realization of this component for more than 20 years, now it has become reality: His research group at the Institute for Applied Physics at the TU Dresden has presented the first highly efficient organic bipolar transistor. This opens up completely new perspectives for organic electronics - both in data processing and transmission, as well as in medical technology applications. The results of the research work have now been published in the leading specialist journal "Nature".