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Published on Fri, 31 Jan 2020 in NEWS

Currently, cfaed offers several, various open job positions including both research and administration positions. Please have a look at our vacancies page - and tell your friends!

Hermetically sealed semi-conductors

New encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materials

Published on Tue, 28 Jan 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

[Press release from the Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) dated 28 January 2020. Dr. Artur Erbe is a cfaed associated member. German version via read more.]

Tomorrow’s electronics are getting ever smaller. Researchers are thus searching for tiny components that function reliably in increasingly narrow configurations. Promising elements include the chemical compounds indium selenide (InSe) and gallium selenide (GaSe). In the form of ultra-thin layers, they form two-dimensional (2D) semi-conductors. But, so far, they have hardly been used because they degrade when they get in contact with air during manufacturing. Now, a new technique allows the sensitive material to be integrated in electronic components without losing its desired properties. The method, which has been described in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b13442), was developed by Himani Arora, a doctoral candidate of physics at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).

Chemical circuits for the molecular diagnosis and treatment of previously incurable diseases

Published on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

PhD student Anthony Beck presents the chemical chip from TU Dresden — PhD student Anthony Beck, co-developer of the technology, holds a chemical circuit with coloured analysis media. On the screen in the background is a microscopic image of one of the chemical transistors of the chemical IC.

[Deutsche Version unter "read more"]

As part of the German government's High-Tech-Strategy 2025, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding an interdisciplinary research group that aims to use an innovative circuit technology to solve a central problem of genetic investigation of human single cells. Medical professionals hope that such research will drastically improve the diagnosis and therapy of many serious diseases and enable the treatment of or even cure for cancer and immune diseases, for which there are currently no suitable methods available.

Prof. Gerhard Fettweis receives Golden Badge of Honour from TU Dresden

Published on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 in NEWS

handover golden needle of TU to prof. gerhard Fettweis

Today, the "father" of cfaed, Prof. Gerhard Fettweis received the Golden Badge of Honour from TU Dresden! Congratulations Gerhard for being among the first 7 persons to be awarded TUD's golden needle!

More info and all awardees: press release from TU Dresden.

Call for Open Topic Postdoc Positions - Apply Now!

Published on Tue, 07 Jan 2020 in NEWS

cfaed is still committed to fundamental research for future electronics and electronic technologies. With these newly installed positions, cfaed seeks to promote collaborations and research projects that:

translate results from our excellence cluster period to application-oriented research or
seed results and insights with the potential for further collaborative research or
have the potential to lay foundations for a new application within the 'Excellence' program, and
bring new collaborators together.

Therefore, the cfaed-funded professors and group leaders re-organized their budgets to endow several open topic postdoc positions. More information and application form here.