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Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) hat am 25.05.2021 einen neuen Sonderforschungsbereich an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) bewilligt. Der SFB 1483 “EmpkinS” (Empathokinästhetische Sensorik ) hat das Ziel, mit berührungslosen radar-, funk- und kamerabasierten Senso... Continue

Great success for the scientists at the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT). The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the funding of a Research Training Group (RTG) called “Cooperative Aperture Synthesis for Radar Tomography” (KoRaTo). The RTG KoRaTo aims to achieve a new quality o... Continue

Benedikt Dorbath with the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT) received an award at the 4th Symposium for Material Technology 2021 for his outstanding presentation at the symposium. The presentation on the publication: “Innovative wireless sensor concepts for the in-situ monitoring of curing... Continue

A start-up trio at FAU has developed a new technology which can produce passive high-frequency components directly from computer models. They have achieved this by combining 3D printing methods with a special metallisation process. Now the researchers will receive 1.1 million euros in funding from t... Continue

How do cars see the world? And what role does a radar play in this context? In a video, Marcel Hoffmann with the Institute of Microwaves and photonics explains, how a cars learn to understand their surroundings and to automatically recognize parked vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists. Video ansehen Continue

Melanie Lipka and her co-authors Stefan Brückner, Erik Sippel, and Martin Vossiek of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics won the Best Pitch Award on the European Radar Conference (EuRAD). In the publication “On the Needlessness of Signal Bandwidth for Precise Holographic Wireless Localization”... Continue

At its meeting on October 20, 2020, the general assembly of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) elected Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek as a new member. Funded by the Federal and state Governments, acatech is the voice of the technological sciences at home and abroad. The members... Continue

Matthias Gareis and his co-authors Patrick Fenske, Christian Carlowitz and Martin Vossiek, all with the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT), received the best paper award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID 2020) in Orlando (USA) for their contribution “Particle Fil... Continue

The annual „LHFT Three Minute Thesis Competition“ at the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics took place on September, 1st 2020. It is inspired by the „Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT™)“ taking place at over 200 international universities. The winners this year are M.Sc. Michael Stelzig (l) an... Continue

Melanie Lipka and her co-authors won the “Best Student Paper Award” on the “13th German Microwave Conference 2020, GeMiC 2020”. The awarded publication is called: „On the Performance of Holograhic Extended Kalman Filters for Localization in Industrial Automation” – Authors: M. Lipka, E. Sippel, S. B... Continue