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Chair of Microsystems and Precision Engineering
Microtechnologies and system ideas lead to new precision engineering solutions. The "classical" sources of precision engineering - mechanics, optics, electrical engineering and electronics - are extended and complemented by microsystems technology.
Microsystems
- integrate different functions
- are miniaturized
- incorporate intelligent signal processing
- are aimed at optimising the overall function
Microsystems do not usually work autonomously but as part of a more complex, higher-level system ("device"), for example as intelligent sensors and actuators
- in motor vehicles or aircrafts
- in home devices
- in office devices
- in the human body
- in an environmental measurement station
Examples
- acceleration sensor for airbag activation
- angular rate sensor (gyroscope) for speed control in motor vehicles
- movable micro mirrors for light beam deflections (scanner)
- jet systems in ink jet printers
- implanted insuline dose systems with sensors, valves, actuators
- implants for electrical nerve stimulation in case of deafness (Cochlea-implants)
- flow rate sensors for gases and fluids
The effects of microsystems technology on intelligence, reliability, energy consumption, volume, mass and costs of market products will be dramatic, similar to the replacement of electronics based on discrete components by microelectronics in the early 1970s.
You are invited to join the work on these promising tasks: visit our laboratories for further information!
