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Visions became reality!
For major challenges, microsystems engineering develops solutions that are smaller than a human hair - for example, a complete laboratory on a chip. Microsystems engineering is used wherever intelligent, space-saving and energy-efficient solutions are required:
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News
Old Material – Newly Discovered
Frederik Kotz awarded the Gips-Schüle Prize for Junior Researchers for his newly developed method of shaping glass
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Close Proximity that Generates Energy
Lars Pastewka is optimizing a type of what is known as contact electricity, or the triboelectric effect
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On the way to the optical cochlear implant
Interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Department of Microsystems Engineering of the University of Freiburg generate for the first time light-controlled behaviour in deaf rodents using optical cochlear implants based on light-emitting diodes. Published in Science Translational Medicine.
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