Institut für Festkörperelektronik
The Solid-State Electronics Laboratory (Institut für Festkörperelektronik - IFE) is one of 12 laboratories of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Technische Universität Dresden. Together with the Semiconductor Technology and Microsystems Lab and several chairs of the Circuits and Systems and the Packaging Labs, the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory is responsible for the microelectronics specialization in the Electrical Engineering program. Research and teaching field of the Institute for Solid-State Electronics are dedicated to the interaction of physics, electronics and (microelectronics) technology in:
Infrared detectors and infrared measurement technology, pyroelectric infrared
sensors:
- Sensor simulation and design
- Sensor technology and material characterization
- Measurement technology for IR single- and multi-element detectors
- Sensor applications in radiation pyrometry, thermal imaging, gas analysis and presence detection
- Radiation-absorbing layers
- IR-emitters
Piezoresistive sensors:
- Fabrication and characterization of pH-value-, solvent- and glucose-sensitivehydrogel films
- Sensor simulation and sensor design
- Measurement technology
- Application to measurement of pH-value, solvent and glucose concentration as well as for protein detection
- Powerless sensor switches (BIZEPS – Bistable Zero-Power Sensors)
- Sensoric Polymers:
- Hydrogels with pH-, temperature-, ion- and concentration-dependent swellingbehavior
- Imprint and replica plating
- Biocompatibility
Ultrasound Technology:
- Simulation of sound fields with complex geometry
- Transducer optimization
- Development of ultrasound measurement techniques using information from the sound field (non-scanning curvature measurement, simultaneous measurementsof velocity and distance, enhancement of resolution)
- Array technology
Functional thin films:
- Electrocaloric layer stacks
- Piezoelectric sensor and actuator layers
- Deposition technology and process development
Modeling and simulation:
- Component and system models
- Network modeling, finite element and finite network modeling
- Coupled simulation
- Application to sensorics
Optical Measurement Technology:
- Sensoric properties of optical nanostructures and nanomaterials
- Sensoric properties of ceramic phosphors
- Opto-electronic microsystems for sensor readout
Large-area deposition of nanocomposites with defined properties:
- Fabrication of nanoparticles by means of gas phase condensation
- Embedding of nanoparticles into thin films by combination of gas phase condensation with other deposition techniques: RF-PECVD, reactive magnetron sputtering
- Nanoparticle materials consisting of metals, alloys and their reactive compounds in matrix materials of inorganic compounds (oxides, nitrides) or functional plasmapolymer coatings
- Applications: Optical absorbers, antibacterial coatings of filtration membranes, electrically conducting percolation networks of nanoparticles for sensoric coatings
The chair is involved in the following major projects of the German Research
Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG):
- Collaborative Research Center/Transregio TRR 39: “High-volume Productioncompatible Production Technologies for Light Metal- and Fiber Composite-based Components with Integrated Piezo Sensors and Actuators“ (PT-PIESA), Project C8: “Polarization Determination of Integrated Piezoceramics as Part of Process Control and Non-destructive Device Evaluation” (07/2010 – 06/2018).
- -Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) 1865 „Hydrogel-basedMicrosystems“ (since 10/2013).
- Priority Programme SPP 1599: „Caloric Effects in Ferroic Materials: New Concepts for Cooling“, Project “Electrocaloric Multilayer and Radial CoolingDevice Concepts” (10/2012 – 09/2018).