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Applied Photonics Award 2022 – these are the winners

Bioanalytics, mobile communication, weather research – this year, the winners of the Applied Photonics Award have once again demonstrated how broad photonics research is. The young researcher award of the Fraunhofer IOF was presented to the five award winners of 2022 on October 5 as part of Photonics Days Jena.

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Rework of LED dies using new debonding solution

In times of limited availability of components and materials, reworking takes on a very special significance. This also applies to LED manufacturing, where irregularities in processed LEDs are immediately visible at first sight.

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Lumibird acquires Innoptics

Through this operation, Lumibird will welcome a team of five people with complementary technological know-how and twelve years’ experience designing and manufacturing optoelectronic subsystems and components.

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International photonics community back in Franconia

After a virtual edition of the LANE conference in 2020, Bayerisches Laserzentrum (BLZ) and the Institute of Photonic Technologies (LPT) of Erlangen Nuremberg University welcomed more than 300 scientists from 20 different countries on-site.

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Leadership duo for Lumics

Beate Sauter and Dennis George have been appointed as the company’s chief executive officers effective immediately. Lumics is a provider of high-power diode laser components and part of the Berlin Industrial Group (BIG).

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Ulrich Krauss is the new Spectaris Chairman

The CEO of Analytik Jena was elected as the new chairman with a clear majority of votes at the Spectaris general meeting in Berlin. Krauss succeeds Josef May, who led the association for fifteen years.

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International standardization of medical 3D printing and scanning

Korean researchers are taking the lead in developing standards for creating patient-customized medical devices. Such standards are expected to be of great help in promoting public health, revitalizing the related medical equipment industry, but also spreading digital twins and metaverse.

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New managing director of Fraunhofer ISIT

The executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has appointed Prof Dr Holger Kapels as managing director of the institute. In this position, he succeeds Prof Dr Axel Müller-Groeling, who is moving to the executive board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich.

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China: Robot installations grew by 44 percent

The industrial robotics market in China achieved strong growth with a new record of 243,300 installations in 2021 – a rise of 44% compared to the previous year. These preliminary data have been published by the International Federation of Robotics.

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AutomationsBest Award

The AutomationsBest Award is now entering its 4rd round. The award will be presented at SPS - Smart Production Solutions in Nuremberg.