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Spring MOS-AK Workshop @ cfaed

The MOS-AK Association held its annual spring compact modeling and Verilog-A standardization workshop at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), TU Dresden, on March 18, 2016.

Published on Thu, 07 Apr 2016 in NEWS

More than 40 registered academic researchers and modeling engineers attended two sessions to hear 10 technical compact modeling engineering talks. This year, compact modeling of emerging technologies such as organic transistors, carbon nanotube transistors and chemical transistors were in focus with contributions from industry and academia. “The talks and discussions revealed an increasing interest of industry and system designers to evaluate the performance and applicability of emerging technologies,” summarized cfaed group leader Dr.-Ing. Martin Claus, local organizer of the workshop in Dresden. He pointed out that “compact models bridge the gap between technology development and applications by providing useful insights for guiding the technology development and by enabling circuit design.” MOS-AK is a dedicated forum for engineers and scientists working in that field.

The MOS-AK Dresden workshop presentations are available here:

When electrons spin differently - Prof. Xinliang Feng contributed to Nature Paper

Graphene nanoribbons: it's all about the edges

Published on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 in PRESS RELEASES

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As reported by the journal Nature in its latest issue, researchers from Empa, the Max Planck Institute in Mainz and the Technical University of Dresden have for the first time succeeded in producing graphene nanoribbons with perfect zigzag edges from molecules. Electrons on these zigzag edges exhibit different (and coupled) rotational directions ("spin"). This could make graphene nanoribbons the material of choice for electronics of the future, so-called spintronics.

Read more … When electrons spin differently - Prof. Xinliang Feng contributed to Nature Paper

Markus Krötzsch receives Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016

Published on Thu, 24 Mar 2016 in NEWS

cfaed HAEC Path group leader Dr. Markus Krötzsch will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2016, which is conferred by German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, named after the physicist and former president of the DFG, is a distinction for young researchers and provides further incentive for excellent achievements in their research work, and is considered the most important research award for early career researchers in Germany. A total of 134 researchers have been proposed for this year's award. Ten of them have been selected to receive the prize, which comes with 20,000 EUR award money, during a public ceremony taking place on 18 May 2016 in Berlin.
Markus Krötzsch is distinguished for his works in the area of knowledge representation, which is focused on the machine-readable representation and intelligent automated processing of human knowledge in computers.

Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung e. V. Dresden (IPF) überzeugt mit erfolgreicher Arbeit - wissenschaftliche Evaluierung positiv abgeschlossen

Published on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 in NEWS

Congratulations to the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden (IPF)! Our cooperating institute has been successfully evaluated by the Leibniz Association for its high-ranking results and scientific excellence. The funding for the research institution will be continued. Read the Press Release of the Saxon Ministry for Research and Arts (SMWK):

"Die Förderung des Leibniz-Institutes für Polymerforschung e. V. Dresden (IPF) soll nach der wissenschaftlichen Evaluierung der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft fortgeführt werden. Das Institut arbeitet ausgesprochen erfolgreich, so der Senat der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in seiner Stellungnahme. 'Die Einschätzung des Senats, dass es dem IPF in den vergangenen Jahren überzeugend gelungen ist, vielversprechende neue Themen aufzugreifen und sich durch zahlreiche wissenschaftlich hochrangige Arbeitsergebnisse auszeichnet, freut mich als Wissenschaftsministerin sehr. Ebenso bedeutend ist, dass das Institut mit einer Vielzahl von Partnern aus Wissenschaft und Industrie erfolgreich zusammenarbeitet, insbesondere mit kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen', sagt heute Ministerin Dr. Eva-Maria Stange.

School & Science: Internship for High School Students

Published on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 in NEWS

During their natural sciences project week (22 to 26 Feb. 2016) students from the high school Martin Andersen Nexö Gymnasium had the chance to take part in a one-week internship for career orientation. The students received an overview of different topics and aspects at the cfaed Chair for Organic Devices with the focus on improving the printability of organic semiconductors on silicon dioxide. They used different silanes to modify the surface of the silicon dioxide and investigated their influence on the surface energy and the resulting printability. For characterization of the modified surfaces they measured the water contact angle and examined the printed semiconductor layers by optical microscopy.