2015 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel HoTSens (en/de)
HoTSens Development, Test and Characterisation of ASICs up to 300°C Setting up the testing station with integrated cooling for complete semi- Objectives automated wafer testing up to 300 °C. Photograph: IMMS. For today's increasingly complex machinery and equipment to be operated safely with the highest possible efficiency in their use of resources and energy, it is essential that the state of each device and process be monitored at many points simultaneously with high speed and complete accuracy. The nearer to the process is any sensor…
Annual Report 2015
ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Publishing Details Contents Publisher IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH* Design and Photography Dipl.-Hdl. Dipl.-Des. Beate Hövelmans Printed by Brandtdruck e.K., www.brandtdruck.de Ehrenbergstraße 27 98693 Ilmenau Germany All rights reserved. Reproduction and publication only with express permission of IMMS GmbH. +49.3677.87493.00 Phone +49.3677.87493.15 Fax imms@imms.de www.imms.de 4 Foreword 5 Collaborating with Ilmenau University of Technology 6 IMMS-specific encouragement of young academics …
2015 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel ANCONA (en/de)
ANCONA Computer-aided verification methods – fresh impetus for Industry 4.0 developments IMMS is at work on ways of automatically extending models of mixed Objectives analogue-and-digital circuits at system level so as to identify critical scenarios. FPGAs such as the Virtex7 demo board shown here are 16 At the basis of all the smart systems which can function as part of the Internet of Things and of all the high performance applications needed in Industry 4.0 lies the technology contained in complex, highly integrated micro-electronic…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel sMobiliTy (en/de)
sMobiliTy An energy-optimised wireless sensor solution for traffic applications Making prototype weatherproof, reliable sensors with wireless signalling 24 Objectives that can be installed in the ”tactile road“ and will contribute to mobility 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 jams, battery charging prices and…
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 one single point in the plant. Yet another is that the breakdowns seem to happen sporadically, tending only to happen at intervals of perhaps several hours or even days. If expert staff apply themselves and complex measurement equipment to ongoing analysis over such long periods, the costs will be high. Expensive downtime in complex industrial plant is often attributable to…
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…
Jahresbericht 2014
Jahresbericht 2014 Impressum Inhalt Herausgeber IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gemeinnützige GmbH Gestaltung, Satz und Fotografie Dipl.-Hdl. Dipl.-Des. Beate Hövelmans Grafik und Bildbearbeitung Dipl.-Hdl. Dipl.-Des. Beate Hövelmans Danielle Warnecke, B.A. Nicole Brühl, B.A. Ehrenbergstraße 27 98693 Ilmenau Germany Druck Brandtdruck e.K., www.brandtdruck.de +49.3677.87493.00 Telefon +49.3677.87493.15 Fax imms@imms.de www.imms.de Alle Rechte sind vorbehalten. Vervielfältigung und Veröffentlichung nur mit Genehmigung der IMMS GmbH. …
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel GreenSense Energy Harvesting (en/de)
Energy harvesting for autonomous sensor systems For purposes of combining an electromagnetic generator with their wireless sensor nodes, IMMS scientists made and investigated various har- 18 Objectives vester circuits, one of which is shown here being tested on a shaker in Among the building blocks for Industry 4.0 will be cyber-physical systems, as they are called, which contain finely distributed, networked sensors. All over the world, for about fifteen years, research has been carried out into the ecologically…
2014 Jahresbericht | Fachartikel GreenSense Bio ASICs (en/de)
Semiconductor-based biochips for on-site veterinary diagnosis Test card equipped with an ASIC capable of analysing aqueous solutions applied directly to the chip. Photograph: IMMS. Objectives 50 Regular health testing of farm animals is a necessity for high-standard food supplies. Up to now, veterinary diagnosis has been possible only after several days or even weeks because it has been necessary to send off samples to a laboratory where they are prepared for and subjected to microbiological analysis. In cases where a…
