Jugend forscht: Winner honored in Lübeck
The winners of the 57th national competition Jugend forscht have been chosen. Germany's best young scientists were honored at the award ceremony in Lübeck.
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Yang wins German research award
Lan Yang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.
Diamond mirrors for high-powered lasers
Nanostructures onto a thin sheet of diamond withstood, without damage, experiments with a 10-kilowatt laser.
AKL eV has a new management team
Dr Markus Kogel-Hollacher from Precitec and Dr Claus Schnitzler from Amphos were elected as the association’s new managing director and treasurer on May 5.
VDMA founds additive manufacturing trade association
AM processes are playing an increasingly important role in industrial production. Networking within the VDMA helps to further develop this technology of the future.
UV-LED lights kill coronaviruses and HIV
Replacing standard lighting with UV-LED lights could be a powerful tool in stopping the spread of Covid-19.
Daimler acquires stake in Manz
The companies have signed a cooperation agreement on a strategic partnership to establish a pilot line for the production of lithium-ion battery cells and for the assembly of batteries at Daimler Truck’s Mannheim site.
Avnet Embedded opens new Software Technology Lab
Avnet Embedded has established a new Software Technology Lab. The aim of the lab is that customers can bring their innovative embedded products to market faster and more cost-effectively.
Laser 2000 is the new UK distribution partner of Opto
Opto announces a collaboration with Laser 2000 (UK) Ltd, the new distributor for the territory of the United Kingdom.
Philip Harting remains chairman of AUMA
At the suggestion of the BDI (Federal Association of Industry), the AUMA (Exhibition and Trade Fair Committee of German Industry) re-elected Philip Harting as Chairman of the Board.
Successful premiere of all about automation in Heilbronn
For the first time, an all about automation took place in Heilbronn in mid-May. For the organizer, the new venue was the right choice.
IoTmaxx becomes a new partner of Deutsche Telekom
IoTmaxx enters into a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom. IoTmaxx customers now have access to the network provider's services and services.
Successful “Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing”
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.
New kind of a single-photon emitter
Ultrafast control of single-photon emitters in the two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride using laser pulses.
Helmholtz Prize for two world-class optics research teams
This year’s Helmholtz Prize is honoring two important contributions to physics, one relating to fundamental research and one to applied research, but both in the field of optics.
Basler buys Distribution Business of Advanced Technologies
Basler has reached an agreement on the acquisition of the distribution business of its longtime Italian sales partner Advanced Technologies S. p. a.
Fast computing with light fields
Researchers at Rochester and Erlangen use laser pulses for ultrafast signal processing.
Technotrans completes merger and renaming of its companies
It is a key milestone for the implementation of the group’s Future Ready 2025 strategy: The one-brand strategy was successfully implemented.
Highest degree of purity for polarized X-rays
Precise polarizers in the X-ray range provide a good tool to detect the vacuum birefringence.
Amplitude acquires MW Technologies
Amplitude and MW Technologies have been working together for many years. The Portuguese company has been a trusted manufacturing and R&D partner specializing in fiber laser and control electronics.
The winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 has been chosen
Karsten Roth has won the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022.
CFO leaves Jenoptik
Chief Financial Officer Hans-Dieter Schumacher (58) has informed the Supervisory Board that, for personal reasons, he will not be available for another term after his current Management Board contract expires in March 2023.
AMA Innovation Prize 2022 awarded to technology platform
On May 10, the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement (AMA) awarded the winning team the AMA Innovation Prize at the Sensor+Test 2022 in Nuremberg.
Wenzel and Visiconsult cooperate on CT measurement technology
The Wenzel Group and Visiconsult signed a cooperation agreement for a development and sales partnership at Control in Stuttgart.
Imint appoints Nils Hulth as CPO
Imint Image Intelligence AB, provider of video enhancement software, has named Nils Hulth as the company’s new chief product officer, reporting directly into company CEO Andreas Lifvendahl.
Ligentec opens R&D center in France
Originating from western Switzerland, Ligentec has established its first foreign subsidiary in Corbeil-Essonnes near Paris.
Open call for LBAAM technology in production
On 2 May 2022, the EU-funded Pulsate project launched the Technology Transfer Experiments (TTE) open call for LBAAM technology in production environments.
Metalenses generate and focus VUV light
New optical device creates VUV light used in semiconductor manufacturing, photochemistry and materials science.
More production capacity for the world’s smallest lenses
GD Optical Competence GmbH is investing around six million euros in its new production and administration site in the community of Sinn. On May 6, 2022, the groundbreaking ceremony took place for the construction of the company's new nearly 2,000-square-meter production facility.
Illuminating perovskite photophysics
As the density of charge carriers increases, it linearly narrows the energy gap that electrons need to vault.
New manager of Egide’s Bollène site
David Hien was director of business development for Europe and Asia. Effective as of April 4, 2022, he succeeds Eric Delmas, who has decided to pursue his career outside the group.
Angst+Pfister enters into partnership with Nordic Inertial
Angst+Pfister and signs a partnership with Finland-based software expert Nordic Inertial (NI).
Teledyne partners with Center for Quantum Networks
Teledyne Princeton Instruments and Teledyne Photometrics became an industrial partner in the Innovation Ecosystem of the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center.
JMU appoints expert in x-ray quantum optics
Adriana Pálffy-Buß has been appointed to the new W2 professorship for theoretical quantum information and quantum optics of the cluster of excellence ct.qmat. She is an expert in the new research field of x-ray quantum optics.
Photonics Germany at the Laser World of Photonics 2022
The optical and quantum technology capabilities of more than 500 member companies and institutes were demonstrated by the association.
