How can a pleasant vehicle climate be achieved efficiently? Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) pursued this question in the context of the research project Visio.M funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with a total of 7.1 million euro. The results of their research show that the potential of […]
The Car Becomes Internet Hardware
Cars are starting to resemble computers more and more. However, the information architectures they use build on principles that were developed over the last one hundred years. Increasingly, breakdowns result from the electronics. And in the near future, cars will also communicate via the internet and drive via remote control or even autonomously. For Visio.M […]
Possible Read Head for Quantum Computers
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. But hitherto it has been impossible to read optically written information from such systems electronically. Using a graphene layer, a team of scientists headed by Professor Alexander Holleitner of the Technische Universität München (TUM) has now implemented just such a read […]
New Dimension for Integrated Circuits
Electrical engineers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have demonstrated a new kind of building block for digital integrated circuits. Their experiments show that future computer chips could be based on three-dimensional arrangements of nanometer-scale magnets instead of transistors. As the main enabling technology of the semiconductor industry – CMOS fabrication of silicon chips – […]
A Path to Flexible, Low-Cost Sensors with Carbon Nanotubes
Potential applications range from air-quality monitors to electronic skin Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices. A leading example is a gas sensor that could be integrated into food packaging to gauge freshness, or into compact wireless air-quality monitors. New […]