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IMT is a one-stop-shop for advanced micro and nano system development and upscaling. For every posed challenge, our skilled multidisciplinary teams develop novel technological and application-oriented solutions at forefront of the state-of-the-art. Our up-to-date technology platform is also accessible through the KNMF services. The in-house lithography capabilities range down to 6 nm lateral resolution, and is coupled with our extensive know-how in fabrication process development. Our talented young scientists cover a wide range of applications and technology platforms. We extensively educate M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis students, and our alumni hold key positions at the top technology addresses.
Researchers at KIT and Tohoku University (Japan) succeeded in significantly enhancing the electrical power of thermomagnetic generators with respect to footprint. This research is the front topic of the December 2020 Issue of the Energy Journal ‘Joule’.
Original Publication: Joel Joseph, Makoto Ohtsuka, Hiroyuki Miki, and Manfred Kohl: Upscaling of Thermomagnetic Generators Based on Heusler Alloy Films. Joule, 2020.
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.10.019
The Institute of Microstructure Technology congratulates his former apprentice Nils Hepp. He finished his final exams in electronics with the top score “very good” and is thus one of the best graduates in the region (Photo: A. Voigt, IMT).
Processes can run 10 000 times faster - European Research Council funds KIT researchers Prof. Korvink (IMT) and Dr. Meier (IBI) and international partners in the HiSCORE project (Photo: Breig, KIT).
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Former IMT-researcher Dr. Frederik Kotz (right) and LTI-researcher Dr. Tobias Abzieher (left) were awarded for outstanding dissertations in the fields of microstructuring of glass and manufacturing of novel types of solar cells (Photo: Gips-Schüle-Stiftung).
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The Optical Society (OSA) features the work of Helge Eggers presented on Inkjet-Printed Perovskite Photovoltaics at the Optical Society (OSA) 2020 Advanced Photonics Congress with a press release. Helge Eggers, doctoral student in the research group of Dr. Ulrich W. Paetzold from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, presented his latest achievements of a perovskite solar cells with inkjet-printed absorber and extraction layers, reaching power conversion efficiencies above 17%. He received the Best Student Paper 1st Prize.
Figure: Adapted from Eggers et al., Adv. Energy Mater. 2020, 10, 1903184.
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Nanostructured polymer film achieves white appearance without the use of environmentally harmful titanium oxide – white beetle Cyphochilus insulanus as a model (Photo: Julia Syurik, KIT).
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Compound refractive X-ray lenses (CRLs) made by KIT/IMT have been used to upgrade the high-pressure X-ray diffraction (XRD) beamline BL10XU at the synchrotron source SPring-8 in Japan to enable realizing diffraction experiments of micrometer-sized samples at multi-megabar pressures (Photo: Arndt Last, KIT).
Glassy carbon microelectrodes minimize induced voltages, mechanical vibrations, and artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging. The novel carbon electrodes were tested directly in a MRI scanner at IMT (Photo: San Diego State University).
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Dr. Katsumasa Ikematsu (KIT and Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) received the Poster Award of the 5th XNPIG in Sendai (Japan) for his contribution on the improvement of the spatial resolution in X-ray phase imaging (Photo: LOC XNPIG2019).