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Martin Vossiek was appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (T-RS). The IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, were recently launched by a founding team, in which Martin Vossiek also participated. The IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems focuses on advances in t...

LHFT congratulates Lena Krabbe for winning 2nd place in the Three-Minutes-Thesis (3MT) Competition at the 25th European Microwave Week (EuMW) in Milan. In her short presentation entitled "Yes Officer, we know how fast everyone was going", Lena Krabbe explained how automotive radars can estimate the ...

The annual „LHFT Three Minute Thesis Competition“ at the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics took place on August, 10th 2022. It is inspired by the „Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT™)“ taking place at over 200 international universities. The winners this year are M.Sc. Damaris Hecht and M.Sc. ...

The chair congratulates Patrick Fenske, André Scheder, Tobias Kögel, Konstantin Root and Christian Carlowitz (Advisor) for their sovereign 1st place at the Student Design Competition at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2022 in Denver. This involves various teams from international univers...

Professor Darko Zibar (Technical University of Denmark, DTU), receives the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. As visiting scientist at the LHFT, Prof. Zibar plans to work together with his nominator Prof. Bernhard Schmauss and...

Johanna Geiß and her co-authors Erik Sippel and Martin Vossiek of the Institute of Microwave and Photonics (LHFT) have won the Young Engineer Prize at the European Radar Conference (EuRAD) 2021 in London. Awarded was the paper “A Practical Concept for Precise Calibration of MIMO Radar Systems”, whi...

Christoph Birkenhauer of the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT) has won the European Microwave Association (EuMA) Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering & Electronic Systems (IEEE COMCAS 2021) for the publica...

The LHFT employees Patrick Fenske and Andre Scheder won the first and second price in the ARGUS Science Awards 2020 from HENSOLDT for their excellent master theses. Patrick's master thesis, with the title "Investigation of an efficient implementation of a SAR reconstruction algorithm in a multi-user...

Practically everyone knows the problem and practically everyone has already been annoyed by it at least once. You could almost believe there is an unwritten law stating: "connection is definitely gone when I really need it." But why is this actually the case? And how can the problem finally be solv...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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