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Research group Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE)
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Our goal is to develop the nanoengineering discipline by pairing basic nanoscience with engineering and production concepts. The Laboratory for Micro and Nano Engineering therefore conducts:
- Experimental, interdisciplinary research on instrumentation for manipulating, modifying and analyzing objects at the nanometer scale range
- Design and analysis studies for very large scale integrated (VLSI) micro-systems and implementations thereof
- Research on fundamentals of assembly techniques for building systems and devices from functional building blocks and components
- Experimental evaluations of novel assembly and packaging processes for industrial applications.
Research highlights
MST for optical fibre-chip coupling
At the start of an optical fibre connection, a laser diode sends coded light pulses into the fibre. When the alignment of the optical fibre to the laser diode is not carried out much of the light is lost. Conventional assembly can hardly meet this requirement and the process has cycle time of minutes, which makes the assembly cost up to 50 - 80% of the total costs of the device. Project goal was to explore the technical feasability of microsystem-based technology for the development of a chip which aligns and fixates the fibre at the required accuracy.
