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Physiker stellen weltweit kleinsten QR-Code her
Ein Team um den Physiker Prof. Dr. Carsten Schuck und den Studenten Lukas Schulte sowie die Doktoranden Tim Buskasper und David Lemli hat den weltweit kleinsten QR-Code hergestellt. Mit einer Größe von 5,38 Quadratmikrometern ist er rund 20 Mal kleiner als der bisherige Weltrekord einer Forschungsgruppe aus Singapur und etwa siebenmal kleiner als eine menschliche rote Blutzelle. Die Arbeitsgruppe produzierte das Fabrikat mithilfe eines Elektronenstrahllithographie-Gerätes in den Reinräumen der „Münster Nanofabrication Facility“ (MNF). Hier arbeiten Forscherinnen und Forscher verschiedener Fachrichtungen sowie Masterstudierende im Praktikum „Grundlagen der Nanofabrikation“. „Die technische Ausstattung in der MNF ist hochmodern und kommt neben unseren Forschungsaktivitäten in der Quantentechnologie unseren Studierenden in innovativen Lehrformaten zugute, die in Praktika nanoskalige QR-Codes herstellen – wenn auch etwas größer als bei unserem Rekordversuch“, unterstreicht Carsten Schuck.
University News
AG Schuck / Department for Quantum Technology

In den Reinräumen der Münster Nanofabrication Facility haben Studierende und Forschende die Möglichkeit, mikroskopisch kleine Strukturen herzustellen, die mit bloßem Auge kaum zu erkennen sind. Sauberkeit ist das höchste Gebot: Ein Haar oder Staubpartikel könnte das Experiment zerstören. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des Praktikums „Grundlagen der Nanofabrikation“ müssen sich daher an genaue Vorschriften halten.

New project to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks
Carsten Schuck’s research group is designing, building and testing a receiver unit for a quantum key generation process and the operation of secure communication in a gas pipeline system produced by PSI Software SE. “Any attempt at eavesdropping would be noticed immediately, rendering the key generation system independent of the measuring devices,” explains Carsten Schuck. His team is building this system at the Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF) using a special technology designed in-house. It uses superconducting single-photon detectors which are embedded in advanced photonic integrated circuits. The circuits are embedded in chips that are cooled to around two Kelvin in order to make the best possible use of their superconducting properties.
University News
AG Schuck / Department for Quantum Technology

Thin Film Metrology Workshop
Tuesday, 2nd of July, 10:00am
Duration: 20min + Q&A
Topic: Optical Analysis (Filmetrics F20)
Link to recorded presentation to follow

Shabnam Taheriniya awarded Infineon Doctoral Prize
Physicist Dr. Shabnam Taheriniya has been awarded the Infineon Doctoral Prize 2024, endowed with 3000 euros, for her excellent doctoral thesis at the University of Münster. For her dissertation in Professor Gerhard Wilde's working group at the Institute of Materials Physics, she investigated the inner interfaces in a new class of materials known as high-entropy alloys, analyzing the mixture of high-entropy alloys with different crystal structures forced by intensive plastic deformation. Dr. Taheriniya also investigated the behavior of the materials under irradiation with fast, heavy ions as well as their microstructure and the inner interfaces and their magnetic behavior using transmission electron microscopy methods in the Münster Nanofabrication Facility (MNF).
The Department of Physics at the University of Münster awards the Infineon Doctoral Prize annually together with Infineon AG.
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MNF students win RAITH Micrograph Award


Congratulations to Anna Ovvyan for winning third place for her image "Capillary-photonic integrated circuit based on integration of semiconducting CNTs." By making use of our EBPG5150, she integrated one-dimensional electroluminescent semiconducting carbon nanotubes into hybrid two-dimensional/three-dimensional photonic circuits. Using 2D nanographene as a low-loss material to electrically contact sCNT emitters directly within a photonic crystal cavity, she achieved efficient coupling and enhancement of electroluminescent without compromising the optical quality of the cavity. This versatile approach paves the way for controllable integrated photonic circuits.
And congratulations also to Akhil Varri, who received the Honorable Mention and Art Award for his image "Wavelength addressable photonic memory."
RAITH Micrograph Award website
Published article: An electroluminescent and tunable cavity-enhanced carbon-nanotube-emitter in the telecom band

SEM Image Contest

Design Thinking Workshop
Up for a challenge?! Join us for a Design Thinking workshop presented by the experts from REACH.
Team up with other scientists to turn a scientific topic into a business idea in this 2-day innovation challenge.
17th and 24th of January
10am to 5pm in the Center for Soft Nanoscience
Space is limited to 30 attendees. Registration is closed.

When interdisciplinary collaboration begins with the architecture

Molecular Printer Workshop

RAITH Presentation

Nanoanalytics Workshop

Monthly fabrication meeting

Picture of the MNF wins Moodle contest

„Besuch in der "Münster Nanofabrication Facility"

Physicists integrate diamond-based quantum systems into nanophotonic circuits

Welcoming our new engineer

Gowning tutorial video now online

Imaging with the Tof-SIMS

New engineer joins the MNF

Student wins international Raith Micrograph Award

Nano-scientists get new large-scale equipment

Introducing GDSHelpers!

Physicists couple key components of quantum technologies

TERA-Fab™ E Series

Novel nanophotonic chips for encrypted data transfer

Molecular Printing in Nanotechnology
