Center for Micro and Nano Sensors

A key factor for the massive installation and use of sensors is miniaturization. The researchers at DISS develop novel sensors and actuators as well as intelligent sensor systems. In order to achieve the necessary miniaturization key enabling technologies, i.e. nanotechnology, photonics, advanced materials, and micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), are implemented.

Center for Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks

Digitalization, IoT (Internet of Things), Industry 4.0, ... All these trends require sensors to connect the physical world with the digital world. The result is a rapidly increasing number of sensors and an exponentially growing complexity of data connectivity. In order to develop the required intelligent distributed sensor systems from individual sensors, researchers at the center are working on efficient sensor integration, intelligently data processing already at the sensor and equipping sensors with important additional functions such as localization, machine learning or autonomous decision-making.

Center for Modelling and Simulation

Modelling and simulation are core competences at the DISS that have been evolved and perfected over the last decade. The available expertise goes far beyond the straightforward application of well-established proprietary software packages like COMSOL® or ANSYS®, and covers the full range from analytical over semi-analytical/numerical modeling to self-coded computer numerical simulation algorithms.

Center for Water and Environmental Sensors

The working group "Water and Environmental Sensors" is part of the Department for Integrated Sensor Systems (DISS). The working group focuses on the development of new sensor technologies for the rapid and sensitive detection of trace substances and microbiological contamination in water and the environment.