Ultrasound, which is sound above the human hearing limit of approximately 16 kHz, is applied in numerous ways in medical engineering and research. Applications range from...
Today, computed tomography (CT) is an established method with synchrotron radiation sources to obtain volume information from numerous sample types at micrometer resolution. However, it is a fact...
Electron microscopy allows investigations with extremely high lateral resolution down to a range of less than one nanometer. However, this places great demands on the imaging elements. And, of course, the specimens...
For many diseases, mobile drug pumps are indispensable to outpatient therapy, for instance, in pain therapy, oncology, parenteral nutrition as well as metabolic disorders. They enable patients to be mobile, therefore...
In der Antiquity, flying was only the privilege of the gods but today, traveling by air is taken for granted. The motto is larger, faster and further. However, the requirements on he components used in airplane technology are...
Automated industrial production of industrial goods in the highest quality would not be conceivable without ultrasonic sensors. They are indispensable in automation and among other things, are used for...
Obtaining razor-sharp images without using a tripod and at the same time, compensate for natural and artificial motion is currently one of the decisive factors for both cameras and smartphones. In cameras, sensors detect...
Today, microproduction technology makes high-precision, mostly multiaxis positioning systems absolutely necessary for both assembly and quality assurance, and they also have to be as compact as possible to enable them...
For surface inspections that are indispensable in many of today's industries, the trend is heading toward smaller and smaller structures that must be reproduced or resolved accurately at nanometer level.