Awards 2011 - 2020

2020

German Future Prize 2020 awarded to research team from Fraunhofer IOF, ZEISS and TRUMPF.

Awarded the German Future Prize 2020 for their project "EUV Lithography - New Light for the Digital Age" (from left): Dr. Sergiy Yulin, Fraunhofer IOF, Dr. Peter Kürz, ZEISS SMT division and Dr. Michael Kösters, TRUMPF Lasersystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing.
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Awarded the German Future Prize 2020 for their project "EUV Lithography - New Light for the Digital Age" (from left): Dr. Sergiy Yulin, Fraunhofer IOF, Dr. Peter Kürz, ZEISS SMT division and Dr. Michael Kösters, TRUMPF Lasersystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing.

On 25 November 2020, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the German Future Prize 2020 to the winners in a festive ceremony under pandemic restrictions. Steinmeier honoured the team of experts led by Dr. Sergiy Yulin, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Dr. Peter Kürz, ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) division, and Dr. Michael Kösters, TRUMPF Lasersystems for Semiconductor Manufacturing, with his prize for technology and innovation for their project "EUV Lithography - New Light for the Digital Age".

Doctorate prize for Dr. Carolin Rothhardt

October 30, 2020

Carolin Rothhardt in the lab.
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Carolin Rothhardt researched bonding technologies for laser crystals in her doctoral thesis.

As part of her doctoral thesis on "Plasma-activated joining of optical components for high-power lasers", Carolin Rothhardt has developed a novel approach that makes laser crystals suitable for use in high-power lasers.

Optical components, such as laser crystals, in high-power lasers are exposed to a high thermal load, which degrades their optical properties. Thanks to Rothhardt's development of a special joining process, optical components can be joined in such a way that they are insensitive to laser radiation in high-power lasers - while maintaining high mechanical stability at the same time. Her work therefore makes an important contribution to the further development of high-power lasers. On 30 October 2020, she was awarded the Friedrich Schiller University Jena's doctoral prize for her work.

Applied Photonics Award in the dissertation category goes to Fraunhofer IOF researcher

September 22, 2020

Nadja Felde proudly wears the glass Applied Photonics Award.
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Nadja Felde was honoured with the Applied Photonics Award 2020 for her dissertation.

The winners of the Applied Photonics Award 2020 were honoured on 22 September 2020 in Jena. The award ceremony was part of the programme of the digital Photonic Days 2020, which focused on young scientists and their networking with industry and science.

The award was presented in the lecture theatre of the Abbe Center of Photonics in front of just a few people - but an even larger online audience. The award was presented by Prof Andreas Tünnermann, Director of the Fraunhofer IOF.

The Young Talent Award recognises outstanding theses with particular relevance to applied photonics. Nadja Felde, a researcher at Fraunhofer IOF, impressed the jury with her dissertation on "Design, manufacturing, and characterisation of robust multifunctional surfaces". She wrote her thesis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and developed a method to achieve top values in terms of both transparency and functionality for transparent multifunctional surfaces.

Carl Zeiss Prize for Young Researchers goes to Dr. Stefan Heist

Visualisation of the 3D measurement of a transparent object.
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With its "MWIR 3D sensor", objects can be scanned in three dimensions - regardless of whether they are made of transparent plastic or glass.

Stefan Heist was honoured with the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers for his new development of two projection techniques, with which he has significantly advanced optical 3D measurement methods.

With the new measurement method for 3D shape detection, both transparent, shiny and deep black objects can be scanned in three dimensions.

His findings on this research were published in the digital journal "Light: Science & Applications" in 2018.

Honour for Prof. Stefan Nolte

Stefan Nolte next to a representative of SPIE.
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Prof. Stefan Nolte is honoured by SPIE for his achievements.

Prof. Stefan Nolte (Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IOF) has been honoured by SPIE as a new Fellow. He received this honour due to his significant achievements in promoting fundamental findings in ultrashort pulse laser micromachining.