Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH

Main Activity in Nanotechnology

Material Manufacturer

About Company

At the interface of microsystems engineering and nanotechnology, a promising field of research opens up that is expected to give major impulses to technical innovations in a variety of industrial sectors in the future. This field of research plays a key role in the implementation of additional functions and novel materials and effects.We consider microsystems engineering and nanotechnology to be two complementing disciplines of miniaturization in science and technology. Nanotechnology provides access to so far unused, completely novel effects. Microsystems engineering allows for the development of complete systems solutions due to its pronounced systemic capability. The Nano- and Microsystems Program is aimed at developing application-tailored solutions. We are pursuing interdisciplinary approaches based on a pool of technologies comprising mechanical, optical, magnetic, fluidic, electrical, materials science, and information technology competences. Our approach is characterized by the use of nanoscaled functional entities (materials, structures, components) in particular to develop innovative and economically attractive solutions.The combination of microsystems engineering and nanotechnology approaches results in the following benefits:

• Access to materials, components, and systems with new functions and effects
• Increased functional density on system platforms
• Improvement of already implemented products
• Use of novel processes and techniques to open up new fields of application and business
• More efficient solutions for the saving of resources and the avoidance of waste