Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden
| Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) | |
|---|---|
| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | state |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, natural sciences |
| Management: | Marc Timme , Thomas Mikolajick , Stefan Mannsfeld |
| Employee: | 400 scientists in 60 research groups |
| Homepage: | https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/ |
The "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (cfaed) of the Technical University of Dresden was created as part of the nationwide excellence initiative of the federal government and the states and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2012 to 2019 with around 34 million euros. On the pages of the DFG, the cfaed is identified as the “Center for Perspectives in Electronics Dresden”. The cfaed unites around 60 research groups with around 400 scientists from eleven institutes. Gerhard Fettweis was the coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence for Microelectronics until 2019 , and since then the research center has been headed by a team of three professors.
Location and institute building
The organizational headquarters of the cfaed was initially in the Bienert Villa at Würzburger Strasse 46 in Dresden-Plauen. From 2015 to 2018 parts of the Barkhausen building on the campus of the TU Dresden were converted for the cfaed , so the building complex received an expanded wing D and an extension on the courtyard side. New laboratories, seminar rooms and offices are located here.
history
The initial application for the cfaed as a cluster of excellence was submitted to the DFG in August 2011 and approved on July 15, 2012. In the second round of the Excellence Initiative, cfaed has received the status of a Cluster of Excellence. In this context, it received around € 34 million in funding for the funding period from 2012 to 2019. As part of the excellence strategy of the German Research Foundation, cfaed applied as a cluster of excellence in 2017 and reached the phase of submitting a full application, but was not selected as a cluster of excellence in 2018.
Research program and research focus
The researchers involved use innovative materials such as silicon nanowires , carbon nanotubes and polymers for electronic information processing . In addition, they are developing completely new concepts, such as the chemical chip or manufacturing processes using self-assembling structures, e.g. DNA origami . The goals are also energy efficiency, reliability and the smooth interaction of the various components. In addition, biological communication systems are considered in order to use inspiration from nature for technology.
The research association includes two universities and nine partner institutes. By 2019, around 300 scientists from more than 20 countries researched new technologies for electronic information processing that go beyond the limits of today's CMOS technology .
The research areas of the cluster were referred to as research paths that were interdisciplinary: Material-inspired paths ( Silicon Nanowire Path , Carbon Path, Organic / Polymer Path, Biomolecular-Assembled Circuits Path and Chemical Information Processing Path (CIP)), System-oriented paths ( Orchestration Path , Resilience Path and DGF CRC 912) and an 'Inspiration Path' (Biological System Path (Bio)). A team of cfaed researchers was working on the development of the "fifth generation" of mobile communications , in which completely new applications will be possible thanks to the high speed, security and reliability of data transmission, e. B. through cooperative traffic management systems, robot- assisted telesurgery or innovative training methods .
Since 2019, research has been carried out at cfaed in six so-called core competency fields.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ EXC 1056: Center for Perspectives in Electronics Dresden on gepris.dfg.de
- ↑ Extension of the new excellence cluster CfAED and DCN Dresden on shp-bauprojekte.de, accessed on March 25, 2019.
- ↑ Press Release of SIB - Staatsbetrieb Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement (PDF: 101 KB)
- ↑ Details Cluster of Excellence 1056: Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) - Center for Perspectives in Electronics Dresden on dfg.de, accessed on March 25, 2019.
- ↑ Knowledge creates excellence: TU Dresden scores points in all funding lines and becomes a University of Excellence / Open Letter to the State Government. Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Initial Proposal for a Cluster of Excellence "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (CfAED), p. 2.
- ↑ https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/short-facts
- ↑ cfaed brochure, page 9 (PDF: 17.6 MB)
- ↑ Short Facts - cfaed. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Two years of excellence status. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cfaed - Short Facts at cfaed.tu-dresden.de, accessed on April 27, 2020.