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Collaborating and networking - this is the contemporary response to today’s technological and scientific challenges, which are becoming ever more complex. This is why the Fraunhofer Institutes IZFP, IWM, and LBF are offering a comprehensive portfolio for holistic material characterization of plastics and fiber composites for component design.

New standards in positioning accuracy

In order to satisfy the various demands on a radar system in a cost-efficient manner, Fraunhofer IZM is researching innovative packaging technologies for radar systems.

The number of new cancer diagnoses has almost doubled in Germany since 1970 – making fast and precise diagnostic procedures even more crucial. This is why Fraunhofer IAF is working on diamond-based optimization of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for cancer diagnosis applications.

Monitoring of high-end production equipment is a central aspect of Industry 4.0. Within Munich’s High Performance Center for Secure Connected Systems, Fraunhofer EMFT – together with Edwards GmbH and the Fraunhofer institutes ESK and AISEC – is working on establishing improved characterization for status monitoring of vacuum pumps.

Until now, time-consuming laboratory tests were necessary to detect pollutants and contaminants in liquids. Now, a novel mobile biosensor system developed by Fraunhofer IIS in cooperation with the Swedish company CapSenze can quickly and reliably detect the presence of biochemical substances.

The most important components in the Internet of Things (IoT) are tiny sensor nodes that collect information from their environment and pass it on – and the applications are becoming ever more numerous and sophisticated. The problem is that the energy consumption of the nodes when projecting a “Trillion Sensor” future is enormous. Fraunhofer’s lighthouse project, ZEPOWEL, sees nine institutes working on futuristic solutions for an energy-efficient IoT.

They are only a few millimeters in size and the perfect fit for headphones, hearables, and hearing aids: the world’s first integrated MEMS-based miniature loudspeakers. The loudspeakers are not only compact; they also offer impressive playback fidelity and low energy consumption. They were developed by Fraunhofer IDMT in Ilmenau and Fraunhofer ISIT in Itzehoe.

In April 2017, Dr. Michael Galetzka assumed responsibility of the “Design, Test and Reliability” technology park.

3D Human Body Reconstruction (3DHBR) is a process that allows a realistic image of a person to be integrated into a virtual world.