Press Releases / Pressemitteilungen

Overpriced? TUD Researchers Explain Artificial Price Increases in the Taxi App Uber

Press Release 2020 Sep 24

Published on Thu, 24 Sep 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

yellow cabs, street scene — Photo: pixabay.com

[Deutsche Version unter "read more"]

Apps such as Uber are an important mobility feature in many big cities. Driving others from A to B in their own car has become a job for many people. However, many drivers complain that their income is too low. In May 2019, the US television station ABC reported how Uber drivers at Washington airport artificially inflated the price of the service by all going offline at the same time. Within a few minutes, the price of the service had risen by 13 dollars, which almost doubled the amount.
How exactly does this strategy work and when is it used? This is what Dr. Malte Schröder and Professor Marc Timme from the Chair for Network Dynamics at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at TU Dresden have been investigating alongside PhD students David-Maximilian Storch and Philip Marszal.

Halbzeit beim Aufbau der Forschungslabore Mikroelektronik Deutschland

Medieninformation, Bochum / Dresden, 16.09.2020.

Published on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

Frau hält Wafer in den Händen, im Hintergrund Labortechnik — Das ForLab NSME konzentriert sich auf mehr Rechenleistung bei weniger Energiebedarf. © TU Ilmenau / Christoph Gorke

Forschungslabore Mikroelektronik Deutschland (ForLab) präsentieren Spitzenforschung und Zukunftsthemen der Mikroelektronik in virtuellem Workshop vom 15. bis 16. September 2020
Aufbau der Forschungslabore mit Investitionen in Höhe von 50 Mio. € in modernste Geräte und Anlagen für die Mikroelektronik-Forschung an Hochschulen kommt gut voran, erste Forschungsarbeiten gestartet
Neue Themen- und Projekt-Website der 12 Forschungslabore Mikroelektronik geht online

Broad spectrum. Novel hybrid material proves an efficient photodetector

Press release from HZDR, 9 April, 2020

Published on Thu, 09 Apr 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

[Press release from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) on a cooperative work with cfaed's Chair for Molecular Functional Materials (Prof. Xinliang Feng) at TU Dresden | Deutsche Version unter "read more"]

Digital cameras as well as many other electronic devices need light-sensitive sensors. In order to cater for the increasing demand for optoelectronic components of this kind, industry is searching for new semiconductor materials. They are not only supposed to cover a broad range of wavelengths but should also be inexpensive. A hybrid material, developed in Dresden, fulfills both these requirements. Himani Arora, a physics PhD student at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), demonstrated that this metal-organic framework can be used as a broadband photodetector. As it does not contain any cost-intensive raw materials, it can be produced inexpensively in bulk.

Taicang High-Tech Park donates 10.000 Respiratory Protective Masks to TU Dresden

Published on Thu, 26 Mar 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

Board and team members of Sixonia Tech GmbH. left to right: Dr. Ali Shaygan Nia, Dr. Martin Lohe, Prof. Klaus Müllen, Prof. Xinliang Feng, Dr. Kangkai Ma - (c) cfaed

[Press release from the TU Dresden Press Office dated 26 March 2020. The mentioned SIXONIA tech company is a start up from the cfaed Chair for Molecular Functional Materials led by Prof. Xinliang Feng. Deutsche Version unter read more]

The "Taicang High-Tech Park" near Shanghai (China) is donating 10,000 urgently needed respiratory protective masks to TU Dresden and its Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital.

"We are extremely grateful for this gesture of friendship and this strong signal of international solidarity and I am personally deeply touched", says Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rector of TU Dresden. "In times of need, such a humanitarian gesture has a significance that goes far beyond its mere material value."

On the trail of organic solar cells’ efficiency: Molecular vibrations reduce the maximum achievable photovoltage in organic solar cells

PRESS RELEASE from cfaed @ TU Dresden, March 20, 2020

Published on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 in PRESS RELEASES

Illustration of the generation of charge pairs (excitons), the precursors of free charge carriers in the active layer of an organic solar cell. Credit: M. Panhans

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Scientists at TU Dresden and Hasselt University in Belgium investigated the physical causes that limit the efficiency of novel solar cells based on organic molecular materials. Currently, the voltage of such cells is still too low - one reason for their still relatively low efficiencies. In their study, by investigating the vibrations of the molecules in the thin films, the scientists were able to show that very fundamental quantum effects, so-called zero point vibrations, can make a significant contribution to voltage losses. The study has now been published in the journal Nature Communications.