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Fraunhofer FHR Showcases Cutting-Edge Radar Innovations at IAA

Radar sensors are important components for modern automobility. Not least due to the rapid developments being made in the field of autonomous driving, the…

Life & Chemistry

Cool Lizards and Climate Change: Ecosystem Impact Explained

Climate change is toppling our Earth's ecosystems out of balance in multiple ways, with often dramatic consequences. But surprisingly, the underlying processes…

Power and Electrical Engineering

QD Color Filters Enhance MicroLED Display Technology

Quantum dot-based color filters for micro-LEDs are one of the most promising future technologies for displays. This technology makes displays even more…

Medical Engineering

Unlocking Early Disease Detection with Eye Scanning Technology

A laser beam hits the eye. This sounds more like a risk of injury at first, but in this case it opens up a chance of healing. “We use laser light to obtain…

Life & Chemistry

A molecular 'atlas' of animal development

In a paper in Science this week, Penn researchers report the first detailed molecular characterization of how every cell changes during animal embryonic…

Earth Sciences

Tracking Sulfur-Based Metabolism in Ocean Microbes

A study by University of Washington oceanographers, published this summer in Nature Microbiology, looks at how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use…

Life & Chemistry

Fine-Line Screen Printing Cuts Silver Use in Solar Cell Contacts

Silicon solar cells rely on metal electrodes on their front and rear sides to carry the electrical energy generated in the semiconductor material from light…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Neutrino Properties: Key Advances Explained

While the Standard Model of Particle Physics has remained mostly unchanged since its initial conception, experimental observations for neutrinos have forced…

Physics & Astronomy

Einstein’s Insights: New Pulsar Emission Map Revealed

Pulsars are fast-spinning neutron stars that concentrate 40% more mass than the Sun – or more! – into a small sphere of only about 20 km diameter. They have…

Physics & Astronomy

Silicon Carbide: The Future of Efficient Semiconductors

Energy consumption is growing across the globe; electric power is being relied upon more and more, and sustainable energy supplies such as wind and solar power…

Life & Chemistry

New Vaccine Aims to Prevent Deadly Streptococcal Shock

“Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is an acute condition like meningococcus – if you get exposed to the organism you can be dead within a matter of days or…

Physics & Astronomy

'Resonance' raman spectroscopy with 1-nm resolution

A research team at Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin, headed by Dr. Takashi Kumagai, demonstrated tip-enhanced “resonance” Raman spectroscopy.

Physics & Astronomy

New Insulation Technique Boosts Power of Smaller Chips

Computer chips are getting increasingly smaller. That's not new: Gordon Moore, one of the founders of chip manufacturer Intel, already predicted it in 1965….

Physics & Astronomy

Future of LEDs Enhanced by InGaN Quantum Wells Insights

Light-emitting diodes made of indium gallium nitride provide better luminescence efficiency than many of the other materials used to create blue and green…

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MaterialVital Preis 2019: Innovative Hydrogel Wound Dressings

Dr. Passant Atallah, Dr. Lucas Schirmer, Dr. Uwe Freudenberg and Prof. Dr. Carsten Werner from the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e.V. (IPF)…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Porous Silicon Layers Boost Lithium-Ion Battery Efficiency

Lithium-ion batteries are well established due to their good properties. They have a higher energy density than other batteries. Therefore, they are used in…

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