Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-optics

Junior Researcher Awards Junior Researcher Awards

The University of Freiburg has awarded young scientists of the Faculty of Engineering and its departments.

A small, sharp eye A small, sharp eye

Hans Zappe is developing an automatic, autonomous microcamera with chemical “muscles” which could be used in endoscopes and other applications

Kaustubh Banerjee receives Best Paper Award at Photonics West Kaustubh Banerjee receives Best Paper Award at Photonics West

Kaustubh Banerjee, a doctoral student at the Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-optics, received the Best Student Paper award at the MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems conference, part of SPIE Photonics West. Sponsored by Samsung, the award was for his paper entitled “A low-cost, 25-actuator electrostatic deformable mirror with polyimide membrane for adaptive optics microscopy”, and was co-authored by Pouya Rajaeipour and Çağlar Ataman. Photonics West is the largest annual international conference in the photonics field, attracting almost 25,000 participants to San Francisco every January.

Micro-optics sponsors German-Chinese optics symposium Micro-optics sponsors German-Chinese optics symposium

The Gisela and Erwin Sick Laboratory for Micro-optics together with the State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics at Jilin University in China will hold a joint “Sino-German Workshop on Photonic Manufacturing, Manipulation and Measurement”.

The Engineered Eyeball on ARTE The Engineered Eyeball on ARTE

The Engineered Eyeball, developed by the Gisela and Erwin Sick Laboratory for Micro-optics, was featured in the popular science television show X:enius, seen Europe-wide on ARTE in April.

Optofluidic router featured in Nature Photonics Optofluidic router featured in Nature Photonics

A recent article in "Lab on a Chip" describing an optofluidic optical router developed by the Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-optics in collaboration with CSIC in Barcelona, Spain, was featured as a "Research Highlight" by Nature Photonics (On-chip router,” Nature Photonics, vol. 8, p. 85, 2014). The fully integrated router relies solely on electrically-movable liquid-liquid interfaces for switching optical signals and is based on micromachined glass and polymer materials.

Another Endowed Chair at IMTEK Another Endowed Chair at IMTEK

The Gisela and Erwin Sick Chair of Micro-Optics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Freiburg to be established in 2013

First Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at IMTEK First Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at IMTEK

Five laboratories of IMTEK contribute to the SFB/Transregio “Planar Optronic Systems,” which will be distributed among several locations. It will receive a total of 9.8 million euros. The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the decision on Novmeber, 21 in Bonn.

All Eyes on the Mantis Shrimp All Eyes on the Mantis Shrimp

Scientists from the Department of Microsystems Engineering will illustrate the complicated optics of the eyes of the mantis shrimp in a presentation at the pet store Burkart on Monday, 30 July 2012.

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