REC²: Responsible Electronics in the Climate Change Era
The REC² cluster is currently in the application process.
Electronics offer numerous advantages for our lives, but at the cost of enormous resource and energy consumption and the generation of electronic waste. The REC² cluster creates the scientific basis for the electronics of the future: new material platforms, component concepts and integrated systems with which responsible electronics can be realized in an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable way.
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New electronic technologies for a sustainable future
Prof. Yana Vaynzof explores innovative semiconductor materials that can be processed into highly efficient solar cells. With the REC² Cluster of Excellence initiative, she and her team are striving to create the scientific basis for the next generation of electronics.
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Thin layers, thick impact
Prof. Elizabeth von Hauff focuses on the development of functional thin films and thin film systems that can be used for energy conversion, storage and sensor technology. Through the excellence cluster initiative “REC²: Responsible Electronics in the Climate Change Era,” she and her team aim to develop faster, cheaper, more efficient and more sustainable thin films for new technologies involving solar cells, batteries and sensors.
Elizabeth von Hauff is Professor of Coating Technologies in Electronics at TU Dresden, Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Initiative REC² and the Director at the Fraunhofer FEP.