2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel sMobiliTy (en/de)
sMobiliTy An energy-optimised wireless sensor solution for traffic applications Making prototype weatherproof, reliable sensors with wireless signalling that can be installed in the ”tactile road“ and will contribute to mobility Objectives 24 with electric vehicles. Photograph: IMMS. Electric vehicles (EVs) have a shorter range and longer ”electrical filling up“ times than do conventional vehicles. For optimum navigation as regards trip time and distance travelled, it is important to have upto-date local information: details of traffic…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel EROLEDT (en/de)
EROLEDT OLED driver circuit for energy efficient lighting Instruments used in the IMMS laboratory for the characterisation of the Objectives OLED driver developed at the Institute. The ASIC, laid out specifically for the OLED panel, enables it to run efficiently and compensates for the ”Organic LEDs“, or OLEDs*, have been used for some years already in smartphones and television screens. At the moment, they are not in common use for general lighting purposes. An OLED is, however, highly efficient in its use of energy and about 60% more…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel MEMS2015 MEMS-Design (en/de)
MEMS design at the press of a button The methodology of synthesising MEMS exemplified in an accelerometer Objectives 36 There is a need for new procedures and tools in the field of MEMS design to enable smart, up-to-date, high-performance sensor-and-actuator systems to be developed. To this end, during its involvement in the MEMS2015 research project funded by the BMBF (the German Ministry of Education and Research), IMMS has developed a new type of methodology. The tried and trusted modular principle from microelectronic…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel MEMS2015 MEMS-Cantilever-ASIC (en/de)
Readout circuit for a smart force sensor MEMS The ASIC developed by IMMS is part of a compact sensor head capable of measuring surface quality at a resolution of less than 100 nanometres in Objectives the industrial setting. Photograph: IMMS. Because microsystems technology is advancing so fast, particularly in the trend towards ever larger wafer diameters, and ever smaller components, the challenges confronting process monitoring and qual ity tests for microsystems are ever greater. In the at tempt to minimise…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel 4TPixel (en/de)
4TPixel – ASIC Development for Radiography IMMS developed a readout circuit for a novel pixel cell and provides low-noise high-quality recordings for X-ray photographs. Photograph: Objectives 48 IMMS. To improve both diagnostics and treatment options for patients, further development has been taking place for many decades in such imaging methods as radiography, computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). CMOS image sensors (CIS) have long been established in medical technology. They are semi-conductor structures which…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel Intelligente Strommesszange (en/de)
Smart current clamp registers parasitic currents in industry Energetic measurements for the smart current clamp. Photograph: IMMS. Objectives Expensive downtime in complex industrial plant is often attributable to malfunctioning of the closed- and open-loop control technology. These malfunctions are, in turn, often caused by unwanted interaction between the electricity supply and the control system. The effect is that communication between components is impaired. If the interference level is outside the error tolerance…
“IMMS with its many years of experience in energy-autonomous systems and in developing integrated hardware and software complemented our own work perfectly and developed us a battery-operated current clamp for us. We are more than happy with the product, which is now being mass-produced and is a valuable addition to our range.”
“For many years as we followed our ‘More-than-Moore’ roadmap, IMMS has been a support to us, acting as our most important research partner. The Institute melded together in sovereign fashion its skills in ASIC design and in micromechanics.”
”IMMS, being the sole research institute in Thüringen for microelectronic applications, has a central role for enterprises like ours in the region, acting as technology partner and coordinator for joint industrial research with public funding.“
