Recent Research

 

Laser writing of microlenses for polymer-based high-performance optics

 

24.6.2022

Advances in ion-surface interaction-driven manufacturing of one-dimensional metal oxide heterostructures

This proposal is dedicated to the exploration of advanced manufacturing methods for the reactive growth of spatially coherent, homogeneous, and high-quality compound one-dimensional nano-heterostructures by principles of oblique angle deposition and assist ion bombardment (iGLAD).

 

Evaluation of effect pigments and coatings

Optical characteristics and functional properties of effect pigments can be analyzed at Fraunhofer IMWS.

 

Innovative glass ceramics discovered

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS discovered new negatively expanding silicates and integrated them into innovative glass ceramics with low thermal expansion.

 

Thin, thinner, ultrathin

Specimens examined in the electron microscope have to be particularly thin. A device has been developed at the Fraunhofer IMWS, which makes such samples quickly and precisely.

 

LEAZit – Low-expansion world innovation

Together with the Otto Schott Institute in Jena, an innovative, low-expansion glass ceramics method was developed – the first of its kind, 50 years after Zerodur, Ceran & Co.