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Research News
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31.03.2020 Subnanometer measuring method of highest precision with ten decades measuring range
"Three orders of magnitude create a new science" - this is how particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann, the discoverer of quarks, describes what awaits researchers on their journey into the world of the very smallest. And the world of the very smallest, for nanoscientists, is the realm of molecules and atoms. Their size is a fraction of a nanometer - the atomic lattice distance of car-bon is 0.246 nm. This corresponds to the 1/300 000 of a hair diameter. In the field of nanotech-nologies, it is preparing to produce semiconductor structures with almost atomic dimensions on wafers hundreds of millimeters in diameter. This naturally requires measuring instruments of the highest precision.
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31.01.2020 VideoLeB
A strong heterogeneity of school students and inclusive learning settings place growing demands on the professional profile of teachers. In many teacher training courses, intensive preparation for these challenges is currently still a neglected activity. Rather, the principle of "learning by doing" seems to be common practice. As early as 2000, Mandl and Gerstenmaier pointed out a significant "gap between knowledge and action" in university education (Gerstenmaier & Mandl 2000, p. 1). In addition, Hof (2000) were able to show that teachers at the beginning of their careers tend to use intuitive knowledge and subjective theories as a basis for action rather than evidence-based and theoretically sound knowledge. However, the lack of practical relevance and the increased recourse to subjective theories and intuitive knowledge is counterproductive for preparing for today's everyday school li
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09.10.2019 Bessel prize-winner at the TU Ilmenau
One of this year's winners of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Professor Lan Yang from Washington University in St. Louis, USA, will spend her associated stay abroad at the Technical University of Ilmenau starting in 2020.
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09.07.2019 Project »ZO.RRO« - Zero Carbon Cross Energy System
After the first phase of the energy revolution with the establishment of renewable energies was completed and their expansion progressed worldwide, we have now entered the second phase. This phase not only includes the phasing out of fossil fuels in the power plant park, but above all the provision of flexibility in a system with cross-sector grid management, which is characterized by fluctuating power generation through wind and solar energy, i.e. the demand for energy must be adapted to the availability of the energy.
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14.05.2019 Hydrogen produced from sunlight: New record efficiency in direct solar water splitting
In a sustainable energy system, hydrogen will play a central role as a storage medium and as fuel for maintaining mobility. An international team of researchers has succeeded in increasing the efficiency of direct solar water splitting, the first step of natural photosynthesis, to over 19% by combining a tandem solar cell from III-V semiconductors with rhodium nanoparticles and crystalline titanium dioxide [1]. Teams from the TU Ilmenau, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge participated in this research.[more]
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11.04.2019 Smart acoustic sensing based on artificial hair cells
The goal of this project is to build a smart sensing system for sound detection which is capable of information processing and (self-) adaption to the current environment. The underlying principles are inspired by the sound detection in the (human) inner ear, the cochlea.[more]
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01.03.2019 Development and application of new forward solutions in Lorentz force eddy current testing
The detection and evaluation of defects in solid conductive materials is important in quality assurance. Non-destructive testing is a quality control tool widely used in the metal industry for inspecting electrically conductive materials. One of the most extensively used techniques in the non-destructive testing inspection is the eddy current testing. Here, an alternating current produces a time-varying magnetic flux density, which according to the Faraday's electromagnetic induction, induces currents in an electrical conductor. Variations in electrical conductivity inside an object under test or the presence of defects cause changes in eddy currents and consequently a change in the impedance of the coil. Measuring this impedance, a defect can be detected. However, due to the skin effect, eddy current testing is limited to surface cracks and cracks close to the surface.
