Sensor network in the forest to improve forecasts of climate change impacts
31.05.2022
The German Research Foundation approves the Collaborative Research Center "ECOSENSE".
Hitesh Gowda receives ‘BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD’ at SPIE Photonics West 2022
02.03.2022
Hitesh Gowda, a doctoral student researcher at the Laboratory for Microactuators, was awarded with the ‘BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD’ at the OPTO conference, part of SPIE Photonics West 2022.
Ultrafast adaptive lenses using piezo-glass membranes
19.02.2020
Novel adaptive lenses can focus in just 100 microseconds and simultaneously correct optical aberrations on a minimal footprint using a piezo-glass composite membrane
Precise aspherical lenses from common lab tools
09.01.2020
Scientists from the lab for micro actuators have developed a process to produce arbitrary aspherical lenses with high quality using common mechanical tools.
"Best Paper Award" at ISOT 2019 – 4th Award at ISOT Conferences
09.01.2020
"Best Paper Award" at "International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies" 2019 in Goa (India)
A quick an accurate method to determine the characteristic material parameters of PDMS
18.02.2019
The lab for microactuators has published a new method to determine the Poisson’s ratio and the coefficient of thermal expansion of PDMS by using a thermal expansion and an optical surface profilometer.
"Best Student Award" at ISOT 2018 for "Piezo-actuated adaptive Prisms"
18.02.2019
"Best Student Award" at the International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technology 2018 in Cancun (Mexico)
New paper published: "Properties of piezoceramic materials in high electric field actuator applications"
18.02.2019
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-665X/aae8fb/meta
Honey, I shrunk the coils
02.07.2018
IMTEK Start-up Voxalytic builds microcoils for the analysis of small samples - some day these parts could improve energy management in smartphones
Wireless power transfer by means of acoustic waves
21.03.2018
The Group of Mikroaktuators has started to work in the field of ultrasonics with the goal of transferring power wirelessly by means of acoustic waves.