Vision & Mission

Vision

We conduct and promote research at a leading international level into the fundamentals of future-proof electronics beyond current technology roadmaps. The selection of topics will increasingly be guided by the Sustainable Development Goals and the German government's goal of strengthening technological sovereignty in Germany.

Mission

• We promote innovation in electronics by conducting multi-perspective and holistic research on materials, devices, circuits and systems, systematically analyzing overarching principles of heterogeneous, nonlinear and networked entities, and thus exploring novel functional paradigms.
• As a scientifically internationally visible electronics center, we provide platforms for nanofabrication technology, knowledge management, as well as nanoanalysis and systems analytics for the TU Dresden and DRESDEN-concept members and are engaged as a central hub of interdisciplinary and cross-scale research.
• We educate knowledge creators in an interdisciplinary way and convey systemic, boundary-crossing thinking and fundamentally new approaches by integrating diverse perspectives.
• In this way, cfaed strives to expand its position as a science center for electronics, which is unique at least in Europe, in order to transform material innovations into future-proof electronics applications and thus sustainably secure and develop Germany's innovation capacities in micro- and nanoelectronics. With its research activities beyond the IRDS roadmap and beyond e.g., standard von-Neumann and CMOS architectures, we want to become the think tank for future micro- and nanoelectronics in Germany.