The Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies (IMN) MacroNano®

       

The Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies stands for interdisciplinary and cross-faculty top-level research in the field of micro- and nanotechnologies. Founded in 2006, the institute today consists of 40 departments of the TU Ilmenau and thus combines and bundles the competences of natural sciences, strongly technology-oriented fields of microsystems engineering and nanotechnology as well as very application-oriented engineering disciplines.

The aim of the institute is

  • to intensify interdisciplinary research in the field of micro- and nanotechnologies from the basics to application
  • to increase the transfer of knowledge through research projects together with scientific partners and partner companies and
  • to continuously develop the research competence in-house and with the scientific partners
 

The Center of Micro- and Nanotechnologies is available to the member departments to implement the goals pursued by the Institute. With more than 300 systems and devices on almost 2,000m2 of laboratory space in two high-tech buildings (Feynmanbau and Meitnerbau), the ZMN is the infrastructural centre of the institute.

News

Appointment of Dr. Ronny Stolz as Honorary Professor for Quantum Engineering

With the appointment of Dr. Ronny Stolz as honorary professor for quantum engineering as of August 17, 2022, a successful education of bachelor and master students related to quantum systems and quantum engineering can be optimally complemented as well as existing competences at the TU Ilmenau, through the research focus of Dr. Stolz in the field of applied quantum systems, can be further expanded.

Engineering research for applications of superconducting structures in information technology has a long tradition at TU Ilmenau. Intensive research on modeling, simulation and design of sensors and components of information processing electronic circuits has been carried out since the 1960s. Essential for a successful expansion of further research activities at the TU Ilmenau in the direction of new quantum technologies are an intensive cooperation with partners, such as in the QSolid consortium, and a successful education of bachelor and master students related to quantum systems and especially quantum engineering, which is optimally complemented by the appointment of Dr. Stolz as honorary professor.

Dr. Stolz has been working as a research associate since 1994 and as head of different groups since 2007 at the former Institute for Physical High Technologies, now Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies in Jena, and has been head of the research department Quantum Systems since 2019. For several years, Dr. Stolz has given lectures on the fundamentals and application aspects of superconducting quantum sensing at international conferences and also as part of international technology workshops at TU Ilmenau. In the winter semester 2021/2022, he contributed to the lecture "Circuits of Quantum Information Processing" (Master Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) on these topics.

Dr. Stolz has been actively involved in teaching at Friedrich Schiller University Jena for more than ten years as a lecturer, especially in the field of electromagnetic methods in geophysics. In the future, Dr. Stolz's teaching experience and expert knowledge of quantum-based magnetic sensors and sensor systems and their practical design and use will be incorporated into academic teaching for electrical and information engineers in the field of quantum engineering. The research focus of Dr. Stolz is in the area of applied quantum systems and includes questions that are complementary to the existing competences at the TU Ilmenau in the best possible way. The appointment of Dr. Stolz as an honorary professor at the Ilmenau University of Technology can secure the future important contributions in teaching to the existing focus on quantum engineering and thus implement a high-quality and at the same time practice-oriented education of students.

In the video we take a look at the Forlab NSME at the Center for Micro- and Nanotechnologies at TU Ilmenau
 

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