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Change of leadership at Fraunhofer ILT

17.02.2025 -

Constantin haefner appointed to Fraunhofer board for research and transfer – Jochen Stollenwerk to serve as interim director.

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First node for the quantum internet of the future

24.01.2025 -

Just in time for the start of Unesco’s International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025, North Rhine-Westphalia is setting up its first node.

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New specialist conference on laser-based optics production

20.08.2024 -

Fraunhofer ILT is supplementing its established Aachen “6th Conference on Laser Polishing LaP” on October 15 to 16, 2024 for the first time with a new conference.

Photonics

Tracking greenhouse gases with a laser

31.07.2024 -

Faced with advancing climate change, we drastically need to monitor and understand the various sources and sinks of greenhouse gases worldwide in real time. One approach...

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Strong signals for photonics’ future

30.04.2024 -

Review: AKL’24 - International Laser Technology Congress, 17 – 19 April 2024, Aachen, Germany

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Laser system for producing high purity crystals

27.02.2024 -

Researchers from Japan and Germany have now developed a method to produce semiconductor crystals for power electronics using a laser-based process.

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NRW quantum roadmap established

12.02.2024 -

German state of North Rhine-Westphalia bundles activities for Quantum Technology 2.0, Fraunhofer ILT coordinates.

Photonics

New lasers for climate research

23.06.2023 -

How do you measure the temperature of individual atoms at an altitude of ninety kilometers?

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Manufacturing is more sustainable with green lasers

28.04.2023 -

A collaboration between Trumpf, Fraunhofer ILT and DESY provides the most detailed of insights into laser welding processes to date thanks to a particle accelerator.

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Entangled photon pairs to help fighting cancer

27.02.2023 -

The ten partners in project QEED collaborate to significantly reduce measurement times and enhance reliability for diagnostics.

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Two steps to the goal

16.02.2023 -

LightFab, Bartels Mikrotechnik, and Miltenyi Biotec cooperated with the Fraunhofer ILT on producing high-resolution microcomponents by photo-crosslinking.

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Reducing energy consumption in electrode production

02.02.2023 -

IDEEL project to manufacture laser-dried anodes and LFP cathodes first time in a roll-to-roll process.

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Programmable laser beams save energy

01.12.2022 -

There is a new quality in laser material processing: With a liquid crystal modulator, the beam profile of a laser can be freely programmed with high temporal resolution...

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Gentle crystallization of sensitive silicon layers

11.10.2022 -

A new process eliminates the need for wires and solder joints, an advantage that can significantly reduce the component size and enhance the sensor performance.

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When a laser collar tames the arc

20.09.2022 -

Fraunhofer ILT engineers have developed a new optical system with glass substrates and an arc torch which unites gas metal arc (GMA) welding and laser material deposition...

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“Joint Application Lab” with Hamamatsu Photonics at Fraunhofer ILT

06.09.2022 -

Together with Hamamatsu, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen has set up an application lab for advanced laser material processing with ultrashort...

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“Laser: commodity or innovation driver?”

09.06.2022 -

After a pandemic break of four years, the industrial laser technology community met for AKL’22 in Aachen.

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Successful “Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing”

24.05.2022 -

At sites of BMW in Munich and GKN Powder Metallurgy in Bonn, the results of the IDAM project allows to manufacture more than 10,000 individual and spare parts.

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Innovation Awards Laser Technology 2020, 2022 presented

05.05.2022 -

Outstanding innovations in laser technology were presented and honored in the Coronation Hall of Aachen’s city hall on May 4, 2022 in front of around three hundred guests...

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New research platform ‘lasers for hydrogen technology’ inaugurated

20.04.2022 -

A major goal of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is to make the fuel cell ready for series production.

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Joint solutions for laser material deposition

25.01.2022 -

The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen and Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik from Ditzingen have signed a cooperation agreement. They want to...

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United to champion quantum internet

06.01.2022 -

QuTech – a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO – is joining forces with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT to cooperate on quantum communication and quantum...

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25 years of metallic 3D laser printing

25.11.2021 -

“This is an auspicious occasion for a retrospective and outlook on our technology,” says Jasmin Saewe, head of the LPBF competence area at Fraunhofer ILT.

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Assemble optical systems with maximum precision

11.10.2021 -

Aachen scientists have developed and set up a new precision gripper arm made of metal powder for the first time: a novelty for the assembly of space components in clean...

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Setting up complex laser systems efficiently

04.08.2021 -

Distributed computing for the automated manufacturing of the future.

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ASTM awards contract to Fraunhofer ILT

29.07.2021 -

Project towards standardization of machine condition monitoring in laser beam powder bed fusion.

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“USP lasers revolutionize battery and hydrogen technology”

24.06.2021 -

Review: 6th UKP-Workshop: Ultrafast Laser Technology, 21 – 22 April 2021, Aachen, Germany.

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Two lasers, two applications, one goal

18.05.2021 -

The projects “HoLiB” and “MikroPuls” investigate how laser technology can be used to economically contact and join dissimilar materials.

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Electrifying inspiration – lasers save energy, costs and space

08.04.2021 -

Review: Laser Symposium on Electromobility LSE’21, 19 – 20 January 2021

Contact

Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT

Steinbachstr. 15
52074 Aachen
Germany

+49 241 8906-0

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